Show old ideas revived Revive dby by experiments in diet some remarkable cases of tasting fasting have attracted attention lately but one striking experiment in diet has met with less attention than it deserves this experiment was carried out by b three scientists who lived for several months entirely on potatoes and vegetable margarine with a slight addition of onton onion oue one of the results of this experiment is that science Is now beginning to 10 believe that there may be some soine I 1 hing in 0 the old idea that potato water is a remedy for gout the potato does appear to have considerable virtues where this disease is concerned another result is that it Is now claimed that the diet of the peasantry in some parts of europe in which meat figures very rarely Is healthier as well as cheaper than more elaborate tare fare sir hill founder of the he penny pos was nas very keen on dieting dieling esper eberl bents lie he lived for many periods of three days each on not more than two articles such as boiled green pens peas and salt and damson pie and sugar |