The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-17
PROF. ELLEN n. RICHARDS OF
BOSTON ADVISES AGAINST A
MEAT DIET.
GOOD MILK AND BREAD
Eat as Little as You Can, She Says
Use Ice Water, but Don't Drink It
Try Cooked Vegetables and
Milk.

Boston. July 16.-Those Bostonese
who can are sitting in the Atlantic
Ocean these days to keep cool. As
for the rest. here are the instructions
of Prof. Ellen II. Richards of the
chair of sanitary chemistry at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy. the only woman instructor on
the staff:
Eat as little as you can, just
enough to keep you going.
Keep as quiet as possible.
Don't drink too much at meals
Use ice water freely, but put your
hands in it instead Of putting it in
your mouth.
Eat no meat, no sugar little fat.
Eat vegetables, fruit and especial
ly bread and milk,
Good milk and breal-yoU cant
find anything better to eat on these
roasting days" Mrs. Richards eX-
planned, you don't want to eat sus-
a. and sweet things because they
give you heat so quickly. Alcohol
gets into circulation in two or three
minutes after you drink it, and sugar
in about five minutes. Starch takes
half or three quarters of an hour
to get into circulation, so after you
eat starchy foods you have time
enough to cool off before they get
into the blood.
Cut down your eating about two
thirds. Yes, really mean this-eat
about two-thirds less than you ca
in cooler weather. What We eat for,
any way, in large measure, is 10
keep warm. When the temperature
is at 40 degrees, we need eat only
enough to keep the temperature ol
our bodies at 9S degrees. But wher
the outside temperature is 80 &c
grees, We need eat only enough 10
make up the remaining eight de
grees. Eat just as little as you can.
Fruit, that is good fruit-not de-
cayed in the leaSt--is splendid fox
the hot weather menu, and there is
delightful variety of fruits in tne
market at present.
Don't eat meat Or if you feel
that you can't get along without
it, eat light meat, such as veal o.
chicken. Cheese, you will ind, is
better than meat these hot days
and just as satisfying
Iced drinks are not harmful. Il
you take them in moderation. BE
sure not to drink too much iced
stuff at meals. And don't drink It
too fast.
Put your hands in ice water. in
stead Of drinking it. You will find
this much more refreshing than tax
ing it into the mouth. Keep as quiet
as possible in hot weather and try
this hand and wrist cooler. You will
be astonished to find how comfcr..
able you get through the sultries.
hours.
I'll tell you some other dishes
that / eat in these warm days. For
breakfast the bowl of bread and
milk does nicely. Then, for lunch,
say, two bananas, with a roll and
butter and a little cheese Since a
banana is rather tasteless, squeeze
the juice of a lemon over It This
makes an entirely refreshing iish.
Bananas, by the way, are both
cheap and highly nutritious. The
food value of bananas is like tia'
of potatoes For the third meal of
the day-the hot meal which aimCs.
everyone wants at least nee in
twenty four hours-try cooked veg
etables. For irstance, ! rad sweet
potatoes and string beans yes;eriay
Two cooked vegetables with bread
are enough for a good meal
Follow this scheme Of diet and
you'll be better off in health. com
fort and pocketbook."