The Columbus journal., 1885-01-14
DIET Or THE FAMILY.
When. What ana How to Eai-';ome Use.
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When. What and How to Isai-,:ome Use
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Those persons who desire to live
themselves and have their families live
hygienicaily, find it very difficult to
decide wha: foods are healshy and
what are not. But there are a few gen.
eral rules that may be given. Oae of
the ways of acco:n. 1.ishing tits is by
neal Of the proper combinations of
different kinds OF tool. A few hints on
this subject are g:yol in Il boo OIL the
diet question. as follows: A cenbina-
ton Of dishes that would be delightful
in the sultry days of July or August
would be altogether insufficient to sat
isfy the appetite on a cold December
day, or a keen frosty morning; and
when the weather is no: OIly cold. but
damp, the food IS always best relished
if warm. Often a good plate of hot
soup, to be followed BY corr-bread and
baked potatoes. and perhaps another
warm vegetable is very acceptable on
damp. cold days. when there is a raw
atmosphere. chilling one through. In
the early fall days, before the stoves are
put up, the mornings are very chilly and
the juicy fruits and cooling vegetables
shat have been so acceptable during the
heats in summer should be replaced by
something warmer and more stimula-
ting.
To form q perfect diet, the cook, or
in other words the housekeeper, mus:
usS her rare good sense in the matter,
and adapt the food to the circumstances
of the Ease. What would be suitable in
the case of a student or one engaged in
Sedentary occupations is nOt most Suita-
BILE for the farmer who is actively at
work. He needs those foods which
will give him The greatest amount of
fesh-fOrming elements, which we find
in meat, milk, eggs. and the gluten Of
grains, which we will find in oatmeal.
cracked wheat, etc. The various veg
etables. beans, peas and the Hubbard
.squashcs also contain great nutriment.
Bread made from the whole wheat flour
which contains the gluten of the grain
is the most nutritious.
No doubt much injury is done to
children by their being allowed to eat
highly seasoned and unsuitable food.
While there may be a difference of
opinion as to the healthfulneSs and de-
STABILITY of anyone consuming pickles,
strong coffee and using pepper, highly
spiced sauces, ETC., there are few who
will claim they are suitable articles for
children's diet. 1t is said that the ex-
cessive use of red pepper which is so
common in the cooking of torrid eli
r,ofn- iS ynpl,rn1 pana-,,ry- Inv tho n f.nf
IF the long and continued heat on the liv-
or, which weailens it and lessons the sup
ply of bile; the pepper having the effect
of stimulating this organ. This excuse
car hardly be urged for its use in this
climate and certainly not with children.
A great deal is also said about eating
too much, but 4 child should not be
stinted in its food. 1t requires 4 good
deal to supply the waste and keep up
The growth. But it should be of the
right kind. 1t has been said with
truth that 4 child will seldom Over-eat
of perfectly simply food, when it will
beg for more pastry and cake. There
is much truth after all in the saying
which sniia'.s so harsh to childish ears,
d" If yo" A." Ict hungry enough to cat
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thing the diet need not be confined
to quite such a limited list as this, but
may embrace fruit, plain cookies, etc,
but the principle holds good that plain
food will be relished by the hungry per-
son., and if not hungry he is better off
without any. If there is a craving
for some particular article, it
shows there is a want in the system
which should be supplied in the food.
The child needs sugar, but it should be
supplied in the food, not in Jumps from
the sngar-bowl ut all times of the day.
In this connection the words of Miss
Frances Willard, who is known through
out the country as the apostle of tenn
perance comes with force: II have
formed Il settled conviction that the
world is fed too much. Pastries, CAKES,
hot bread, rich gravies, pickles and pep
per sauces are all discarded FROM my
bill of fare and l firmly believe they
will be from the recipes of the twenSieth
century. Entire wheat flour bread,
vegetables, fruit, fish. with 4 little meat. |
and milk as the chief drink, will Gistil
in the alembic of the digestive organs
into pure, rich, feverless blood, electric
but steady nerves, and brains that Jan
think Gods thoughts after Him. as
they have never yet thought. This is
my recipe: Plain living and high
thinking and this is my warniag: |
With high living you will get exceeding
ly plain thinkihg."- WeStern RurU