The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-06-05
DR.. WILLY TELLS WHAT TO
EAT IN HOT SUMMER Time
LIKE BEEF sTEAK9 THEN EAT
1T, SAYS EXPERT.
LIVE ON MIXED DIET AND sHUN
COLD DRINKS.

Washington, June 5.-It's silly 4
Hay down rules of diet in these day
when most folks are busy battling 70
mere existence, says DR.. Harvey w
Wiley, chief OF the bureau of chemis
try department of agriculture. wh'
just now is telling people how to keel
comfortable in hot weather. Doctor
Wiley has the health Of some $4,000,
900 persons on his hands and tn,
things the people are wondering abou
Is how Doctor Wiley keeps cool. tel.
ling the $4,000 900 how to avoid over
heating.
Most people are obliged to eat
whatever they can get" is the encour-
aging message OF the health expert
Those who have any choice, however
| first Of all, should moderate in every
thing at the table. The human sys-
tenn was built for a mixed diet. The
ages have proved that moderation in
food is best for mankind, so why
should We pay any attention to any of
the faddists that occasionally arise TO
claim attention.
Like Steak in Summer7
If you have been in the habit Of eat
ing a steak now and then or a chop or
a piece of roast meat i'm cold weather.
there is no reason for eliminating them
from your menu simply because the
weather has turned warm. Merely cut
down the quantity. When the weather
is hot there is no necessity for supply
ing so much heat TO the system. We
do not need so much coal to keep the
human engine going.
1T is really dangerous to drink Ice
water. Water too cold and drunk IN
large quantities chills and congests the
coating OF the stomach. Many people
distill or filter their water to free il
from pathogenic germs and afterward
add ice to it, not knowing that the ice
is just as liable to be filled with germs
as is the water The habit is found To
result from the ignorant belief OF some
people that so-called microbes cannot
live in ice that by bringing the water
to a freezing point these germs are
killed. But freezing produces only sus-
pended animation in the pathogenic
germs causing our common diseases.
They merely hibernate in the Ice. The
longer it takes water to filter through
"A porcelain filter the more thoroughly
1t is freed from germs
Wbv 4 acc Eood A., N..InI
Less food is needed in the summer
because the body's radiation of heat
IL greatly reduced. With a normal
body temperature of 9S degrees we go
out into the winters cold. often when
the air Is zero or below. During such |
weather the heat of the body is con-
5tantly being radiated off into the cold |
air. which is another way of defining |
the process by which we get chilled |
n the winter. But In the summer the |
air about us is 80 hot-often hotter
than our bodies-that we radiate lit !
lie or none of our heat into 1t.
There is about as much nourish-
nent in a pound of wheat as in a |
pound of beef. Wheat is the better
'ood for the working man because II |
s balance ration, containing all
hree Of the principal nutrient con-
of food. which are protein.
'arbo- -hydrates and fats, required to
produce heat and energy in the adult.
md furthermore to build up tissue in
he young, while they are growing.
When a pound of meat is eaten It sup
)lies only protein. which is the element /
which builds tissue Adults need
ertain amount of protein to build up |,
he waste tissues but they do not
iced nearly so much as the growing
10Y or girl.
Never Keep Stomach Empty.
I'm the summer we should eat more
4 the succulent foods of the vegetable
lass and less of the concentrated
oods of the animal category. While
We should eat less in hot weather we
must never keep the stomach empty.
he stomach and intestines need To be
istended Should the nutrient con-
tituents BE extracted from hay and
ed TO n horse i'm concentrated form
he animal would die. The human
tomach as well as that OF the horse
leeds a large amount of the indigest-
BILE material to keep the alImentary
anal open.
Potatoes and fat meat are the best
oods for the laboring man-also sugar
yrup. A lump of sugar will restore
lasticity to the muscles OF tired
nan as promptly as will alcohol. and
he advantage of the sugar is the alb '
ence of a harmful reaction. Men on {
orced marches. athletes and those who {
lake heroic physical efforts of any !
ind should carry Jumps Of sugar to
at from time to time. For emergen-
y rations the French and German ar
1ies are now provided with lump SUI
ar" Il