Diet in relation to age & activity : with hints concerning habits conducive to longevity / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Diet in relation to age & activity : with hints concerning habits conducive to longevity / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    observed in our own country and through- out almost every part of Europe, from erroneous habits in eating, as from the habitual use of alcoholic drink, consider- able as I know the evil of that to be. I am not sure that a similar comparison might not be made between the respective influence of those agencies in regard to moral evil also ; but I have no desire to indulge in speculative assertion, and suspect that an accurate conclusion on this subject may be beyond our reach at present. It was the perception, during many years of opportunity to observe, of the extreme indifference manifested by general public to any study of food and its food, and want of acquaintance with preparation. its uses and value, together with a growing sense on my own part of the vast importance of diet to the healthy as well as to the sick, which led me some years ago to write a work on the subject of “ Food and Feeding.” * And since that * The Eleventh Edition of this work has just appeared (1901).