Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1909-06-03
Author of Eating for q Purpose" etc.,

E. N. Y, Rheumatsm.-I am subject
to rheumatism, what diet would you
advise?
Ans.-Exclude all meats, white bread
and potatoes, unless baked. Eatfruitsor
toast for breakfast, make whole wheat
or rye bread a nuts your staple for
dinner, and have baked potatoes or
prunes In the evening. Eat whole
meal Of uncooked green etables oc-
casionally, especially in spring. The
more uncooked food you eat the bet
ter. Take half lemon with pint to
quart of hot water on rising, and a
few apples and tablespoonful OF
olive, or peanut oil morning and eve
ming. Avoid sudden changes of tenn
perature and exposure to drafts and
cold dampness. Take temperate Turk
ish towel bath every morning. Exer-
else regularly IN open air Drink dis
titled water freely. Use the electric
vibrator
w. B. F., Hurried Eatine.-We have
boy II years old of nervous tempera-
ment, four pounds under normal
weight; he is very excitable and has
trouble in school on this account. He
eats fast and prefers mush and other
foods that he can eat hurriedly. What
is the best way to prevent the firm es-
tablishment of this condition.
Ans.-To improve his general health,
first investigate judiciously, to assure
yourself that you have knowledge of
all the causes of the boys failure to de-
velop properly. Children should have
as large percentage of food as pos
sible in dry form. Furnish no liquid
at meal time and especially no tea or
coffee In this case let the staple Of
The breakfast be, instead of mush
toast, with a little syrup or honey or
one Of the cereal preparations, which
compels normal chewing, with a
poached or whipped egg. For dinner
whole wheat bread, not fresh, with
baked potatoes or Saratoga chips and
for supper prunes boiled only a little
or baked potatoes or corn bread; a full
meal of uncooked vegetables only or
fresh fruit only, occasionally. For the
following meal give corn bread with
peanut butter, making up the shortage
in proteid and fat. Give a spoonful of
peanut or olive oil morning and eve
ming, and preferably not more than
two articles of food at once.
Children should not be allowed to
acquire the improper habit of eating
rapidly. We are nervous people and
therefore, dyspeptic, largely as re-
suit of eating too much, because we
too fast because we are nervous. Food
and thought are reciprocal
Mrs. NJ. s., AppIes.-You advise ap-
Piles in the morning, but single apple
causes me great distress, bloating and
headache, some times for two or three
hours after eating. Should l eat APP
pies when they cause me so much
distress?
Ans.-You can no doubt remember
when, as child, say about ten years
old, you could eat several apples with.
out any unpleasant effects. II you
were to eat nothing for four or five
days (or until your liver returned TO
normal condition) you could eat apples
as well as ever.
The apple contains malic acid, be-
sides fruit sugar, and small percent
ages Of nearly all the elements of
nutrition. The distress is due to an
abnormal condition of the stomach and
! liver, upon which the apple acts di-
rectly. No drug is more specific. Now
in the child and normal person the
| liver and stomach are acting naturally,
| and apples cause no distress. If you
were to eat an apple the first day
| after having eaten nothing, or on the
second day of fast the distress would
be extreme. The liver during the fast
is making an effort to regain its nor.
nal state, by using for house cleaning
| the vitality ordinarily spent in diges-
tion, the cells in that organ not being
over busy with their usual work Of de-
! stroying the poisons which would 9th
erwise destroy the entire organism.
| Now malic acid is, like other acids,
! such as carbolic, disinfectant or
| poison killer a germicide. and as
more work Is going on in the house
cleaning operation in the liver. the
apple causes an extraordinary throw
ing of Of gas, causing this pressure in
the stomach and as the abnormal ac-
tivities of the liver when burdeled
with poisonous waste from the all.
mentary canal are reflected through
the sympathetic nervous system, over
the eyebrows, you have this familiar
headache, but after four or five days
eating nothing, or only other fruit, say
grapes, which would be very good in
this case, the effects of the apples
would be much less oppressive and in
time you would not notice it at all, as
in the case of a child whose liver is
not yet somewhat debilitated as yours
must be.