Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-11
DIET FOR INVALIDS AND CHILDREN.
Some sugs, stions that 1t will do No
Harm to Consider.
DemOrest's Magazine.

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Demorest's Magazine.
| Dyspeptics should avoid ANYTHING
which they mot others cannot digest
There are so many causes for and forms
of dyspepsia, that it is impossible to pre-.
scribe one and the same diet for all
Nothing is more disagreeable or useless
Than to be cautioned against eating
this or that, because your neiehbor $50
an-@o' cannot eat such things. If we
would all study the nature and digestion
of food, and remember that air and ex-
ercise are as essential as fOoG in promot-
ing good health, we could easily decide
upon the diet best suited TO our individ-
ual needs.
The diabetic should abstain from sugar
and anything which is converted inte
sugar in digestion, such as all starchy
foods, fine wheat flour, rice, maccaroni,
tapioca, liver, potatoes, beets. carrots,
turnips, parsnips, peas, beans, very old
cheese, sweet omelets, custard jellies,
starchy nuts, sweet sauces. wine and liq-
uors. He may eat oysters, all kinds of
fish, meat, poultry and game, soups with
out any starchy thickening, lettuce Gu
crmbers, watercresses, dandelions, young
onions, cold slw, olives, cauliflower,
spinach, cabbage, string beans, ripe fruit
of all kinds without sugar, cream, butter,
milk sparingly, gluten, flour, oily nuts
freely salted, eggs, coffee and cocoa. The
corpulent should abstain from fat as well
as sugar and starch. A diet of whole
wheat, milk, vegetables, fruits and lean
meat will produce only normal amount
of fatness; while an excess of sweets,
acids, spices, and shortening keeps the
system in an unhealthy coalition.
Those who can digest fine -four, pastry,
sugar and fats, become loaded with fat,
but are neither strong nor vigorous.
Thin people with weak digestion should
also avoid such food for thin people are
often kept thin bv the same food which
makes others fat. If fthey cannot digest
the starch, butter, and fine -four, the sys-
tenn is kept in feverish, dyspeptic state;
they become nervous, or 90 into con-
sumption for no other reason than
that the life is burned out by a diet
which only feeds the fire and does not
renew the tissues. "AIen dig their
grave with their teeth, not only by drink
IL, nd h,,t -,
eating food loaded down with infamma-
tory materials.
Mix should enter larger into the diet
o. children. 1tcontains caseine, or;fesh-
forming material, cream and sugar. which
are heat producers mineral salts, for the
bony structure: and water, as solvent
for all the ether materials necessary in
nutrition. 1t shoIld be used with dis
cretion. however not taken immoderate
" but taken slowly as food after the pat
tern given by nature. Milk as taken is
a fluid but as soon as it meets the acid
OF the gastric juice, it is changed to a
soft, curdy, cheese-hke substance, and
then must be digested, and the stomach
is overtasked if too much be taken at
once.
A large glass of milk swallowed sud-
denly will form i'm the stomach a lump
of dense, cheesy curd, which NAV even
prove fatal to weak stomach. Under
the action of the stomach this cheesy
mass will turn over and over like heavy
weight and as the gastric juice can only
attack its surface, it digests very slowly.
But this same milk, taken slowly, or
with dry toast, light rolls. or soft. dry
porridge. forms a porous lump through
which the gastric juice can easily pass,
and which breaks up every time the
stomach turns it over. Milk should be |
slightly salted, and eaten with bread
stuffs or slipped by the spoonful. Cows |
milk produces less heat than human
milk a child would grow :hin upon it
unless little sugar were added. Wheat
-four has such an excess of heat-produc-
ing material as would fatten child un-
duly, and should have cows milk added
to it to reduce its fattening power.
To prepare oatmeal mush for children |
and invalids: Take one cup granHlated |
half teaspoonful salt. and one
scant quart boiling water. Put the meal
and salt in the double boiler, pour on
the boiling water, and cook two or three |
hours. Remove the cover Just before |
serving, and stir with a fork TO let the |
steam escape If the water in the lower |
boiler be strongly salted, the meal will
cook more quickly. Serve with sugar or
salt, and cream. Baked sour apples, ap- |
pie sauce, and apple jelly are delicious
eaten with the oatmeal. They should be
served with the mush, and the cream
and sugar poured over the whole. They |
give the acid favor which so many crave
in the morning. Coarse oatmeal is not
suitable for any form of water brash,
acidity, or bowel irritation. 1t often
causes eruptions on the skin in hot
weather.
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