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finds that only one-fourteenth as much
agree8 with him.
Eat Less Protein.


Eat Less Protein.
Eat less of protein also in summer. Diet
rich in protein-the principal constituent of
whites of eggs, lean meat, milk curds,
cheese, wheat gluten, etc, as said-in-
creases bodily heat. A certain supply of
oxygen is needed for the combustion of
protein as well as of fat and since the airs
supply of oxygen is lessened in hot wealth
er, as explained. the human system be-
comes overloaded with an undue amount of
unoxidized matter, which cannot be proper
ly expelled by the kidneys. Uric acid poi
soning is apt to result from too much pro-
TEN in hot weather. The liver becomes dis
ordered from this cause, too. White resi-
dents of tropical regions are troubled much
by congestion of the liver because of their
rich protein diet. Tropical natives who
adopt the white mans diet are troubled the
same way. Asiatics who have become semi
Europeanized suffer much from disease of
the liver. In Guiana a series of rabbits
were fed for ten months on nothing but
cheese, rich IN protein. Another group were
fed on vegetables alone. The cheese-fed
rabbits grew to be fatter, but their liverS
grew out of all proportion to their weights
To reduce protein in the hot weather diet
1t IS best to reduce our supply of meat
primarily. This is because meat is rich in
the heat-producing fat as well. But a GER
tain amount of protein is important even In
very hot climate. 1t is essential to the
repair of the system Without a reasonable
supply food is not digested.
What You Should Eat.
VI carbohydrates. then. you can eat
most abundantly in summer. They are the
chief source of the carbon which nature
provides to supply mans energy Eating
them in excess Is far less dangerous to
health in hot climates than eating an ex-
cess of fat or protein. They will be val
liable and wholesome substitute for fats
hoy d
lily assimilated, ant when the stomach
gets more of them than it requires it stores
them up in the form of adipose tissue
They are most abundant in vegetables
The vegetable kingdom is almost the sole
source Of food of natives of the tropics
But these peoples eat very sparingly in
the form of cereals.
Here are some of the foods richest I'm the
beneficial carbohydrates: Among our ordi-
nary fresh vegetables sweet potatoes are
the richest. and lima beans are almost as
rich. Following In order of abundance of
this wholesome constituent are white pota-
toes, green corn. parsnips. string beans.
onions, green peas, beetS, turnips squash
and cabbage. Flour. meal bread and crack
ers are all rich in carbohydrates while
taploca contains as much as S112 per cent.
Among the fresh fruits this constituent is
most abundant in bananas, grapes rasp-
berries. apples and pears, raspberries con-
tanning twice the percentage of straw
berries.
in summer meats contain the most. Salt
pork is 81 per cent fat: bacon. 60 per cent
flank of lamb. ~ per cent: flank of beef
n per cent: loin Of beef, IL per cent: leg
of lamb, 10 per cent Chicken contains
only 10 per cent, and most fish less than =
per cent of fat. The foods richest in pro-
TEN are the lean meats. notably veal and
beef, eggs, cheese, oatmeal, entire wheat
and graham flour, dried peaSe. dried beans
and cocoa.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS. Jr.