The Osceola times., 1884-10-25
DIET FOR lNVALlDS lND CHILDREN.
some suggs siions that u will do No
Harm to Consider.
Demorest's Magazine.

DemOreets Magazine.
Dyspeptics should avoid anything
which they mot others cannot digest.
There are so many causes for and forms
IF dyspepsia, that it is impossible 20 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 go
aH-so' caanot eat such thing4. If We
would all study the nature and digestion
of food, and remember that air and ex-
ercise are as essential as food 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 int
sugar in digestion, such as all starchy
foods fine wheat -four, 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
cumbers, watercresses, dandelions, yC ung
onions, cold slaw, olives. cauIiflower,
splnsch, cabbage, string beans, ripe tfuit
Of all kinds without sugar, cream, butter,
milk sparingly, gluten, -four, oily nuts
freely selted, eggs coffee and cocoa. The
corpulent should abstain from fit as well
as sugar and starch. 4 diet of whole
wheat, milk, vegetables, fruits and lean
meat will produce only normal amount
of fatne-s while an excess of sweets,
acids, spices, and shortening keeps the
system in an unhealthy condition.
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 by the same food which
makes Others fat. Ifthey cannot digest
the starch, butter, and fine -four. the sys-
TEN is kept in q feverish, dyspeptic state
| they become nervous, or go into con-
| sumption for no other reason than
that the life is burned out by a diet
which only feeds the fire and does moi
renew the tissues "Men dig theii
grave with their teeth, not only by drink
ing whisky and using tobacco, but by
eating food loaded down with intlamma
tory materials.
| Mix should enter larger into the die
of children. ltcontains caseine, orlhesh
forming material, cream and sugar, which
are heat producers mineral salts, for th,
bony structure and water, as a solvent
for all the ether materials necessary il
nutrition. 1t shorld be used with dis
cretion, however not taken immoderate
ly but taken slowly as food after the pat
tern given by nature Milk as taken i
fluid but as soon AS it meets the acit
oil the "a ,lric Juice it is changed to F;
soft. curdv, cheese-hke substance, anC
then must be digesied, and the stomach
is oyertasked if too much be taken a
once.
A large glass of MILK swallowed sud
denly will form in the stomach lumI
of dense, cheesy curd, which NAV evei
prove fatal to weak stomach. Unde
the action of the stomach this chees,
mass will turn over and over lik : heav,
weight and a. the gastric juice can onl,
attack its surface. it digests very slowly
But this same milk, taken slowly, o
with dry toast, light rolls. or soft. DR.,
porrldge. forms a porous lump through
which the gastric juice tan easily pass
and which breaks up every time tn,
stomach turns it over Milk should b.
slightly salted, and eaten with brea,
stufis or slipped by the spoonful. Cow
milk produces less heat than human
milk child would grow thin upon i
unless little sugar were added. Whea
flour has such an excess of t-produc
ing material as would fatteu child un
duly, and should have cows milk adde,
to it TO reduce its fattening power.
To prepare oatmeal mush for childreI
and invalids: Take one cup granHlatec
oatmeal, half teaspoonful salt. and ont
scant quart boiling water. Put the mea
and salt in the double boiler, pour on
the boiling water, and cook two or thfe,
hours. Remove the cover just befor,
serving, and stir with fork 10 let tn,
steam escape. II the water in the lowe
boiler be strongly salted, the meal vii
cook more quickly Serve with sugar ol
salt, and cream. Baked sour apples, ap
pie sauce, and apple jelly are delicious
eaten with the oatmeal. They should b,
served with the mush, and the cream
and sugar poured over the whole. They
give the acid favor which so many crav,
in the morning. Coarse oatmeal is no
suitable for any form OF water brash
acidity, or bowel irritation. 1t Offer
causes eruptions on the skin in ho
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