HEALTHY ON 2000 CALORIES A DAY

On my strenuous lecture tours in Belgium, England, Holland, and above all in Australia, I always had to put up a fight, for my friends were of the opinion that you must live and eat like the local people in order to stand the strain of traveling and of the climate. At our hotels they looked at me somewhat curiously when I would put a packet of whole food muesli on the breakfast table and ask for sour milk, buttermilk, yoghurt or fruit juice, to prepare it. In Queensland I stayed at a very good hotel in Brisbane. For breakfast, besides my usual muesli, I ordered a fruit salad made of local tropical fruits. But the staff stood around my breakfast table, not knowing what to do. So I went to a nearby greengrocer’s, bought papaya, mangos and other fruits, and then asked one of the girls to cut them up and add some fruit juice and cream. The result was a delicious fruit salad! Mixed in with the muesli, and together with “Bamboo Coffee” and Vogel-bread, I had a nutritious whole food breakfast. A newspaper reporter who interviewed me had much to say about the royal meal with which I started the day. With a little effort, a little understanding and friendliness, and a little appreciate too nut can be achieved even though at first it may seem UN attained.

Less than revisal, but enough

Daring in’ whole trip I enraged exceeding1y well on 2,000 to 2,500 cal rise a day. Some 80—90% of this came from fruits, vegetables. , honey, wheelman bread, cottage cheese, and yoghurt. The peptic in these countries normally live on 3,500—3,800 calories a clay, eat mg chiefly meat, egg s and cheese, a few vegetables and a little start, but also a lot of sweets. This is one of the reasons why they gene rally showed less vitality and endurance than I did. Berthing... we eat in excess f what our body really needs becomes bal1at and will slow us down

In spite of the strenuous and extensive program I had to cope with ever day — flights, radio and television broadcasts, interviews at tunes -%vita 15 to 20 reporters — I succeeded in holding out without becoming too fatigued. No doubt I owed this in the main to ray natural way of eating. Nowadays, however, I have been of crud to refrain more and more fact such demands, since mass tourism his made traveling moiré difficult and it is also not as safe as it was... And one is getting older too.