Thomas Allinson

Victorian Guide to Healthy Living (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Victorian Dr. Thomas Allinson founded the famous Allinson bread firm in 1892 and wrote five volumes of medical essays outlining his beliefs that food was an important factor in health. His sage advice was an anathema to his Victorian peers and he was struck off in an age where medicines were made of mercury and arsenic. His outrageous beliefs included exercise being good for health, the need for a work-life balance for better efficiency and health, avoiding tea and coffee in the evening to promote better sleep and obesity being caused by eating too much. These misguided beliefs are so relevant to todays market and written in a wonderfully anachronistic but accessible manner. Best-selling author and food and health expert Anna Selby has edited his five books into one volume, incorporating chapters such as vegetarianism, exercise and the work-life balance, as well as a chapter containing some of his quirkier beliefs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Remember When
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781844684748
• Artikelnr.: 37997573

Autorenporträt

Dr Thomas Allinson was a healthy eating campaigner long before Jamie Oliver transformed school dinners in twenty-first century British schools. He founded the famous Allinson Bread firm in 1892 and wrote five volumes of medical essays outlining his beliefs that food was an important factor in health during the late Victorian era when almost half of all children failed to reach the age of five and life expectancy averaged a mere 43 years. Allinson's campaigning zeal for nutritionand living in accordance with the laws of nature resulted in his being ultimately struck off the medical register for his criticism of the widespread use of mercury, opiates and arsenic in the medicines of the day. Today, most of his advice is taken for granted, for example, that smoking can damage your health and cause cancer; that obesity should be avoided by exercise and healthy eating and that wholefoods are more healthy than processed ones. This fascinating Victorian primary source with its recipes for healthy eating offers a range of unusual cross-curricular opportunities linking history with food technology and with personal, social and health education and may well result in students and teachers being able to share Thomas Allinson's boast in his introduction that his health was 'phenomenally good' because he lived 'by rule' and as a consequence had enough energy in him 'for two or three people'.