Show I I W What at You Eat 1 t Q VEGETARIANS are shocked t tb learn from fromI i ii i I V Arctic explorer that he he and two trapper companions lived two years eating nothing except seal meat This happened ton yon on last scientific expedition on the great sheet heet of ice that for forms s constantly near Alaska and p moving P fifteen J e a day travels l oni on it r rJ I C rt J i t. t 1 n i I H up over over the north pole thin then th n southeast miles niiles until it is melted as it strikes the gulf stream in the Atlantic ocean F Fr Jr two years and his two for o lowers tasted no vegetables They had seal meat for breakfast lunch and dinner nothing dinner nothing but seal meat for two whole years Dieticians predicted that the three e explorers would perish unless they had a balanced diet vegetables for carbohydrates mixed with the protein of meat pleat An exclusive sive meat diet the they Y told St would would kill kiU any man They hey said they knew this tills because they had tried it on on a guinea pig How would you like ike to have nothing to eat at except meat for days two days two years Af After er living on seals a week the explorers lost their appetites Even the thought of a seal made mad them gag Several days without food Then seal meat began to smell good Aft After r that tha appe appetites returned and thenceforth no one hesitated when the cook whistled Lord Strathcona builder of the Canadian Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- railroad for years ate only one meal a a. a day And that meal was always the same At 96 he was doing two mens men's work and helping run the British government in his ills spare time He never never ti tired ed of that unchanging menu menu Why should he lie Chinese never tire tire tire-of of rice nor of oatmeal oatmeal oatmeal oat oat- meal nor Norwegians of herring Craving for a a change of food flood is due to to toa a palate that is j ded by variety not by monotony From experience we learn two important t things ings about food First People First People take on the characteristics characteristics' of what they eat says he ate so much l h seal meat that he lie probably began to smell like on one for polar bears scented him and his com com- companions to comI companions n- n ten miles away I Second A Second A diet of nothing but meat worked all right in the frozen North due to severely cold old weather and the explorers' explorers hard work In a a warm climate the same diet would kill It would b be doubly doubly- deadly for the indoor worker who doesn't get much exercise |