New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-23
SIXTY? HERE'S YOUR DIET
Hints for Nervous Americans
in London Treatise.
STOMACH NOT THE AIM
Food Must Agree with Constitu.
ton, Says DR.. @. Watson
Warning to the Elderly.

warning 10 tue GlOerIy.
from The Tribune's Correspondent.
London, March 15.-Americans who have
come to London recently have frequently
remarked upon the number OF men 10 be
| seen on the streets Of New York nova
days earnestly engaged in conversation
with themselves, and they remark also
upon the rapidly increasing number or
these men. 1t is recognized that this
habit is one which comes chiefly from 4
frazzled out nervous system, due to the
indecent hurry Of American business life.
With this conversational habit there is
, also likely to come an intense interest In
minor symptoms OF health, and this again
leads to considerable conversation on the
subject OF diet and large increase in the
sale OF breakfast foods. For the benefit
of those unfortunates who are given TO
! worrying about diet and diet systems, Or.
Chalmers Watson has written a little vol
ume called THE Book of Diet" In which
no says:
THE diet should be selected to agree
with the constitution rather than with
the stomach. true food must be either
tissue builder or a source Of energy. Fats
are the most important fuel foods. Pro-
teins (meat, fish, eggs, etc. are the It's
sue builders. But efficiency OF salts Is
essential to health, and II salts are cut
out Of the food death occurs in few
weeks"
Children Need Limo Salts.
In dieting children, lime salts for the
bones are indispensable. And II is well
TO remember that "the foods most rich In
| lime salts are milk, eggs. cereals (espe-
cially rice). vegetables especially aspara-
gus and spinach), while meat, fish, pota-
toes and fruits are poor in these salts.
Children need more food relatively than
adults The proper amount for boy or
/ fourteen to sixteen years Is four-fiftns
OF mans food
| Very useful information is given con-
corning the nutritive properties OF meat.
fish. game, etc, from which q few hints
may be cited:
Beef is best when got from an OK two
| years Of age.
Veal is much less nutritious than beef
and not so easily digested.
Mutton is generally considered 10 DO
more easy OF digestion than beef.
Lamb greatly exceeds mutton in It's
promotion Of fat and is correspondlngly
less digestible.
Tongue, tripe and sweetbreads are both
nutritious and easily digested.
| Hare. when young, is very tender, ana
Young. we'll fed chicken Is the most
dgestiblc OF all animal foods.
! People who believe that they can make
a sustaining meal off half dozen oysters
will be disappointed TO learn that these
| delicacies are composed mainly OF
water-over SIS per cent. Three dozen
medium sized oysters contain only l-S
ounces OF solids"
one OF the commonest dietetic errors ~
taking too little water. On an average
the daily requirement Is about four pints
One-fourth of this is contained in the
solid food. and DR. Chalmers advises that
one and a half or two pints of plain
water should be taken daily
Sugar Contents Of Wines.
Here is a table OF the sugar contents OF
wines grains per bottle which should be
interesting 10 the equity:
Bottle. grains Bottle. grains;
s HCSs s 'os s sheTTy i. TO TO 4i
por, sal to $40 Old Marsals. 1855 to AL
Champagne. anything up to 500 grains.
In many people the digestion is too Sood
for the kidneys, heart and other organs
They can eat abundance and With relish,
but they cannot get rid with correspond
ing case OF the waste products. In middle
life and old age this fact needs par
ticularly TO be kept in mind. Middle
aged people should take less food thah
younger adults. and elderly persons re-
ouire less than the middle aged.
4 good diet chart for man Of sixty or
seventy Is:
& a. m.-Cup OF tea, nothing to be eaten
with II.
$50 Rreakfast-A small cup OF tea or
coffee. breadstuN should not be hot rolls
or tndigestible new bread. EGGS or fsh
cooked in various ways.
10 l:3o Luncheon-Ffsh and farin-
aceous pudding, or fish and biscuits and
i
serve the meat or fowl to the evening
meal
4p..m-A cup of freshly made tea
IN m. Dnner-ShouDd generally COM
| mence with a little soup, veGetapie
PURGE or a good fish soup. Many elderly
subjects are better without soup. Fowl
or game. red meat only occasionally. one
dish of vegetable pudding Of light farm
aceous variety, or stewed fruit.
10 p. ma cup Of good consomme OF
beef tea. or chicken tea with tnin
slice of toasted bread, is very good
thing for old persons just as they get INTO
| bed
Oyereating, especially in advanced life'
! induces disease by setting up selt-poisoh-
ing or by putting a strain on the kideys'
heart and blood vessels. The feeding up
of old people is therefore dangerous as
| il is an unnecessary. practice.
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