e _British Medical
Journal_, quotes Voltaire: "Regime in diet is better than medicine. Eat
moderately what you know by experience you can digest, for that which
you can digest only is good for the body. What is the medicine that
makes you digest? Exercise. What will repair your energy? Sleep."

To this text he adds the benefits of sunlight and pure air.

Reports from School Medical Officers continue to record that tea, white
bread, and meat play the chief part in the dietary of many homes. Fresh
fruit and vegetables, even in rural areas, are not eaten sufficiently.

Frequent eating between meals takes away appetite and retards digestion.
Many children bring to school substantial "play-lunches" to be consumed
at the mid-morning interval. Others consume large quantities of sweets.
Healthy hunger they rarely know. A noteworthy fact is that in New
Zealand the consumption of sugar per head per annum is 117 lb., as
against rather more than half that quantity in Britain and much less in
other countries. Apart from its directly deleterious influence on the
teeth, the alteration of food values in the dietary necessitated by the
inclusion of so much sugar results in digestive troubles and disturbed
nutrition. In this country, with its many sources of supply, eggs, milk,
cheese, butter, fresh fruit, and vegetables should be available in
sufficient abundance and at low-enough prices to displace to a greater
extent the meat that is such a prominent article of diet in many
households.

The value of rest, both physical and mental, for children is not
adequately recognized. In the country many children work early and late
at farm-work, as milking, &c., and in the city children earn money as
newsboys, message-boys, &c. Where the family exchequer needs to be
augmented in this way excuse must be made, but in many comfortable homes
children do not rest sufficiently. Mr. Cyril Burt, psychologist for the
London City Council, was recently reported as deploring the tendency in
modern education to attach undue value to the dramatic and theatrical.
Children who possess talent are made to drag it prematurely into the
light of publicity. They are over-trained and over-stimulated. Nearly
all children are taught to regard frequent amusement as essential to
happiness. To leave them to develop their own resources and allow them
to find interest in simple and natural things would be to extend widely
their chance of future happiness.

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