The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-16
Diet FOR HEALTH
CUTS LIVING COST
Federal Expert Gives List Of
Suitable Foods.
FAvORS HOME CANNING.

rheumatism and other Ills Would Be
Largely Eliminated if Fruit and
Vegetables Were Provided Every
Day In the Year, Says Food Special
ist--Would Be Cheaper Too.
The average American family may
steer clear of the ordinary discomforts
that afllict the body and thereby i'm
prove its health if the housewife will
exercise more care in getting up the
daily bill of fare.
A food specialist of the department
Of agriculture in Washington points
the way. He says that the balanced
ration of many Americans today is
made up about as follows:
Bread, Meat,
Butter, Fish,
Eggs, Patent medicine lax
atives
Many Americans suffer customarily
from indigCstioa in its various forms
and rheumatism, according to the gov
ernment food specialist. He suggests
that simple change of the daily menu
might go a long way to remedy these
ailments. The specialist recommends a
change to this menu as being more In
keeping with natures plans:
Bread, Meat,
Butter, Fish,
Fruit, Eggs,
Vegetables, Green's
For Fruits and Vegetables.
The specialist recommends that ev-
cry family provide 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 products
so that there might be Il can of fruit, Il
can of green's and can of vegetables
for every day during the winter there
would be little need for the laXatives
now so regularly purchased from the
corner druggists There would also he
great economy in the substitution of an
inexpensive food for more expensive
ones"
The food specialist suggests Jnat
housewives should do more home can
ming at the proper season. He thinks
this would help to solTe~the problem
involved in the cost of living.
~"It is estimated" he said, "thaJ over
80 per cent OF all the vegetables,
greens, fruit and berries that grow in
this country go to waste and are ac-
! tually lost to those who need them.
This is simply because housewives
have not learned to care for these sur
plus products efficiently and to make
them available for the winter months
by canning.
Economy In Home Canning.
"That home canning may reduce the
cost Of living is not generally appre-
ciated. Even those who are accustom-
ed to use a supply of canned goods in
the winter do not realize that they
sometimes pay transportation on goods
from distant parts of the country when
there is surplus Of the same product
in their own vicinity during the sum-
mer 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 of
tomatoes is bought during the winter
months in Colorado for 10 cents. This
can was put up in Maryland. The peo-
pie of the section where it was pur-
| chased live in an irrigated district
where there is always a surplus of to-
matoes in summer, yet they pay trans
portation on vegetables from Mary
land when they might have put up a
similar can during the season in their
own district which would have cost 8
cents.
when one considers the number of
cans used which have been shipped
great distances one realizes the enor
nous saving little intelligent home
canning might bring about"