The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-06-09

Nold Drinks, OF course, and Reduce
Your Rations, as the Body Needs
Less Fuel.
Don't take up any food fads.
Eat whatever you want, but don't
overdo it.
Subsist on a mixed diet. All this
talk about vegetables or fruits alone
being a panacea makes me sick.
Don't drink ice cold connections.
Full many a youth has gone to his sar-
cophagus
BY pouring ice cold drinks adown his hot
esophagus.
Hot Weather Advice by DIR. Harvey
W. Wiley, Food Expert Of Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Et's silly to lay down rules of diet
in these days, when most folks are
busy battling for mere existence, says
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, chief of the hu
reau of chemistry, department of agri-
culture, who just now is telling peo
pie how to keep comfortable in hot
weather.
ever they can get" is the encouraging
message of the health expert. "Those
who have any choice, however, first OF
all should be moderate in everything
ut the table. The human system was
built for mixed diet. The ages have
proved that moderation in food is best
for mankind. so why should we pay
or attnntion tn of fo66icfG
that occasionally arise to claim atten-
ton?
Like Steak In Summer? Eat IL!
"If you have been in the habit of eat
ing a steak now and then or a chop
or piece of roast meat in cold wealth
er there is no reason for eliminating
it 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
supplying so much heat to the system.
We do not need so much coal TO keep
the human engine going.
at 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 it
from pathogenic germs and afterward
add Ice to it, not knowing that the ice
is just as liable to be filed with germs
as is the water. The habit is found
to result from the ignorant belief of
some people that 80 called microbes
cannot live in ice-that by bringing the
water to a freezing point these germs
are killed. But freezing produces only
suspended animation in the pathoGenic
germs causing our common diseases.
They merely hibernate in the ice. The
longer it takes water to filter through
porcelain filter the more thoroughly
it is freed from germs.
Why Less Food Is Needed.
LESS food is needed in the summer
because the body's radiation of heat
is greatly reduced. With a normal
body temperature of SO 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-
stantly being radiated off into the cold
air, which is another way OF defining
the process by which we get chilled
air about us is so hot-often hotter
than our bodies-that we radiate little
or none of our heat into it.
There is about as much nourish-
ment in pound of wheat as in a
pound of beef. Wheat is the better
food for the workingman because 1t
Is balance ration, containing all three
of the principal nutrient constituents
of food, which are protein, carbohy-
drates and fats, required to produce
heat and energy in the adult and fur
thermore to build up tissue in the
young while they are growing. When
a pound of meat is eaten 1t supplies
only protein, which is the element
which builds tissue. Adults need
certain amount of protein to build up
the waste tissues, but they do not need
nearly so much as the growing child.
"In the summer we should eat more
of the succulent foods of the vegeta-
BILE class and less of the concentrated
foods of the animal category. While
we should eat less in hot weather, we
must never keep the stomach empty.
The stomach and intestines need to be
distended. Should the nutrient cOnstit-
uents be extracted from hay and fed
to horse in concentrated form the
animal would die. The human stom-
ach as well as that of the horse needs
a large amount of indigestible mate
rial to keep the alimentary canal open.
potatoes and fat meat are the best
foods for the laboring man. also sugar
sirup. A lump of sugar will restore
elasticity to the muscles Of a tired
man as promptly as will alcohol, and
the advantage Of the sugar is the alb
sence of harmful reaction. Men on
forced marches, athletes and those
who make heroic physical efforts of
any kind should carry Jumps of sug-
ar to eat from time to time"