Diet for Men. By Cecil Webb-Johnson. (Mills and Boon. 5s.
net.) This is a companion book to Diet for Women, by the same author. The chief difference between the two manuals is that whereas Dr. Webb-Johnson's chief warning to women is " Do not eat between meals," the great danger to men he takes to be general over-eating. The book gives many hints on mixed diets, non-flesh diets, &c., but the principle most advocated by the author $s the abolition of breakfast. The most useful chapters are perhaps 10 and 12, respectively " Diet as it Affects Blood-pressure " and " Diet and Occupa- tion." The difficulty about all these little books is that they begin by saying that digestion is aided by eating the food you like and end by advocating the most austere and forbidding menus as the sole means by which health may be increased and maintained.
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