Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-10
FOOD LIST IS TOLD
FOR HEALTH DIET
Federal Expert Also Gives
Economy Advice to Prudent
Housewives.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10-The aver
age American family may steer clear
of the ordinary discomforts that
afflict the body and thereby improve
its health If the housewife will exer-
else more care in getting up the daily
bill of fare.
! A food specialist of the department
of agriculture points the way. He
says that the balanced ration of
many Americans today is made up
! Bread. butter, eggs meat fish, pat
ent medicine laxatives.
Many Americans suffer eustomarily
from Indigestion in its various forms
and rheumatism, according to the
government food specialist He sug-
gests that a simple change of the
daily menu might go O long way to
remedy these ailments. The specialist
recommends a change to this menu,
as being more in keeping with
natures plans:
Bread, butter, fruit, vegetables.
meat, fish, eggs, greens.
Fruit Everyday.
The specialist recommends that every
| family provide q diet of fruit and
vegetables for every day in the year.
He argues that this would do much
| to eliminate the need for patent medi-
cines that figure so prominently in
| the bill of fare of so many Americans.
"If every home" said the specialist,
kept on hand enough canned prod
ucts so that there might be can OF
| fruits, a can OF greens and a can of
vegetables for every day during the
! winter there would be little need for
| the laxatives now SO regularly pur-
chased from the corner druggists.
/ i I. A.afaF ~
| in the substitution of an inexpensive
| food for more expensive ones"
The food specialist suggests that
housewives should do more home can
ming at the proper season. He thinks
this would help to solve the problem
! involved in the cost of living.
ut is estimated" he said, that over
! so per cent. of all the vegetables,
greens, fruit and berries that grow
N this country go to waste and are
! actually lost to those who need them.
This is simply because housewives
have not learned to care for these
surplus products efficiently and TO
make them available for the winter
months by canning.
Home Canning Cuts Cost.
"That home canning may reduce
| the cost of living Is not generally
/ appreciated. Even those who are ac-
/ customed to use supply OF canned
goods in the winter do not realize
/ that they sometimes pay transporta--
| ton on goods from distant parts OF
! the country when there is surplus
of the same product in their own
/ vicinity during the summer months
which might have been saved by home
canning"
| The food specialist then tells about
! the enormous economic waste that
could be prevented by home canning.
For example," he said. "a can or
tomatoes is bought during the winter
months in Colorado for Is cents, This
can was put up in Maryland. The
people OF the section where 1t was
purchased live in an irrigated dis
trict where there is always a surplus
of tomatoes in summer, yet they gay
transportation on vegetables from
Maryland when they might have put
up a similar can during the season
in their own district which would
| Save cost Ave cents.
when one considers the number or
cans used which have been shipped
great distances one realizes the enor-
| nous saving little intelligent home
] canning might bring about.