16 JULY 1932, Page 18

DIET AND AGE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am sometimes asked why I am a fruitarian. Well ! At eighty I am still active after thirty-two years of fruit- eating—surely sufficient proof of the wisdom of the diet ! But the question is an interesting one. The prime reasons which led me first to adopt it were, in order of importance :- (1) Economy ; (2) Value to my health ; (3) No slaughter.

I should be interested to learn the relative importance placed on these three considerations by interested readers of your paper, and perhaps additional sound reasons of their own.—