Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-26
THE RIGHT DISH.

Editor Social Corner:-The Corner ties are writing about the subject of diet and to my mind this is about the
 most important matter for a woman to make a study of. I will give you
 my idea of the right way to feed . | family
 Many women think of food as some thing to fill up on, whereas they should think of 1t as nourishment, or | material out of which is to be made
 new muscles. nerves fat, heat, and energy. Such a wrong view is ex- pressed when a cook brags about mak- ing cake without milk or eggs, there by leaving out the most nourishing pies out Of green tomatoes instead of | meat, with the same results with re- gard to the food value of the product. r Now certain kinds of food furnish certain elements for the use of the body, and food which will do one kind of work will not do another. For in stance, fats. such as butter, cream, oil fat meat. etc, are used only to pro- duce heat to keep our bodies warm, hence in cold countries like Green
 land, the natives eat great quantities
 Of the blubber or fat of fishes. If you
 put a native of Greenland on a veg l etable diet which by the way is not
 furnished him there by nature. he would not be able to endure the ex- treme cold. and would not survive in
 
 hand, we, in this climate, eat too much | fat in summer. we feel the heat much l more than is necessary, because we l produce too much in our own bodies. One who is always cold, should use
 more fat in their diet, which will help to remedy the trouble. In winter ev-
 cry one needs more fat than in sum mer.
 | With regard to eating meat I be- | lieve more misunderstanding exists in | 111@ other food. Meat, should call the
 chief of the protad foods, of which the others are eggs, milk, peas beans, cabbage, oatmeal. peanut butter, or nuts, and the gluten in entire wheat flour or graham. These proteid foods
 are used by the body to make new | muscles and nerves and it cannot l make them of any other material. A grown up person, doin- ~.tle or l no manual labor, and under no great nervous strain, does not need very much meat or other proteid food. On the other hand a man doing hard work such as is usual in the long days of summer on farm does need a great quantity of meat or other pro- teid foods, or he will lose in weight and energy all summer until the short CT days and lighter work of winter give him chance to catch up. It will not be because of his eating so
 much, but because he is not furnish lung his body with enough protein daily to rebuild the muscular tissue he wears out.
 once fed a member of my family
 on a vegetable diet all summer when
 he was working at hard out door labor about 16 hours daily, with the result that he weighed only about 150
 pounds when his normal weight was i75, and nearly had a nervous break
 down in the fall I now believe this to have been entirely due to wrong
 diet. A growing child also needs plenty of protein to make new growth On the other hand, a person work ing in al office or at other light in door work. where there is little wear on the muscles, cannot eat heartily of proteid, or muscle building foods. and keep in health, as the exeretory or gans have to get rid of all this ma terial which is not needed, and the
 kidneys and liver soon suffer from overworl1; and sometimes the skin too,
 shows the effects of wrong diet Sugar
 person who works, as we say, on the
 keen jump. all day. needs an extra amount of sweet food.
 Study then. your own conditions of life and labor, and eat accordingly.
 Think of food, not as something to sawdust, but it would be useless to
 eat it. Do not think of food as mere ly something which tastes good. Pep
 per sauce or tea may taste good but
 1t would be like trying to get work out of horse by whipping instead of feeding him, to use either to excess.
 hope the day will come when the girls who graduate from our public schools will have a good knowledge of the principles of diet, whether they know so much about other things or not