21 JUNE 1940, Page 5

These are days in which most of us are more

than ready to do the right thing if only someone we have confidence in will tell us what it is. War-time diet is a case in point. We all have vague memories of reading articles and pamphlets telling us what the foods that really matter are. And having read we straightway knot and carried on with our ordinary food. But here is the British Medical Association enabling us to recover from past lapses, with as clear, concise and altogether excellent a threepenny pamphlet as it would be possible to compile. It is called The Doctors Tell You What to Eat in War-time ; it is published by the B.M.A. itself ; and I suppose it can be got from any bookstall. To buy it, study it, and live by it seems to me an essential war-time duty.