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Show MEAT-EATING SCORED BY WOMEN DOCTORS NEW TORK, Sept. 19. The eating of meat was the target of attacks in addresses ad-dresses delivered today before the International Inter-national Conference of Woman Physicians. Dr. Graham Lusk, rrof-ssor of physiology physi-ology at Columbia university, declared that "meat was the curse of the American nation and the foundation for the high cost of living," while Dr. E. V. Mac-Cullom Mac-Cullom of Baltimore asserted that, unless the consumption of meat is reduced and fresh green vegetables substituted, the nation would be visited with some sort 01 plague like beri-beri or pellagra. Dr. Luk recited the case of one family of five which ate ?16 worth of meat weekly, week-ly, in addition to eggs, cheese, grain, vegetables, fruit and other food products. If meat was eliminated from the family menu and more green vegetables substituted, substi-tuted, the speaker declared that the weekly food bill would be reduced to 510. Meat, he said, contains only 42 per cent of nutritious substances. Dr. MacCullom said that the poor had a mistaken Idea that meat was an essential essen-tial food, with the result that they suffered suf-fered from underweight. |