THIS WEEK'S BOOKS
SIR WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT LANE endorses What's Best to Eat, by Mr. Henning 13elfrage, with a practical supplement by Miss Yates (Heinemann, 7s. (Id.) as follows : "The deeper one digs into it, the more valuable, instructing and inspiring are its contents. It should be in the hands of everyone who wishes to lead a healthy, happy existence." And who does not ? Our ignorance of food values is lamentable, and as the author says in his preface, our instinct for the right selection of food has progressively disappeared with our increase in mental development. To-day, 80 per cent. of English children have defective teeth. Nature has been starved of the salts neces- sary for their bodies and has searched for these salts in their teeth. There is tragedy here, horrors as ghastly as anything that has ever occurred in the world : teeth, eyes, nerves are being sapped by faulty and artificial diet. We must eat fresh and living foods each day, foods possessing the mysterious electric energy of the vitamines in order to be the men and women God intended us to be. This book is a valuable chapter in the new testament of health.
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