Sydney Henning Belfrage

Sydney Henning Belfrage (21 July 1871 – 31 May 1950) was an English physician and writer. He established a sizable general practice, served as the Divorce Registry's medical inspector, and was regarded as an authority on the law of nullity. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, University College Hospital and St Thomas' Hospital. He was a member of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, a leading member of the New Health Society and physician to Virginia Woolf. He authored the book What's Best to Eat? which was dedicated to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane.

In 1926, Belfrage was Honorary Medical Secretary of the New Health Society.

Vegetarianism

Belfrage lectured on the benefits of a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet. George Bernard Shaw attended his lecture "Diet and Race" in 1934. He attended the 6th World Vegetarian Congress in 1926.

Selected publications

What's Best to Eat (with a foreword by Elmer McCollum, 1926) The A.B.C. of Food (1929) Facts About Food (1938) Illness (1938)