The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-09-13
HOW TO KEEP WELL.
TBy Chas. G. Perciyal, M. d.

10y Was. NJ. L "a SiFoi, Az. III IL
Proper food, properly cooked and
obtaining and keeping perfect
| health.
There is a great need for the peo-
pie of this nation for proper instruc.
ton in diet. Few people know the
right kind Of food to eat at the diff
ferent seasons of the year and not al
ways does custom prove a good guide.
Upon the diet of nation lies its
Importance among the nations OF the
world. So important has become the
question of proper diet that many
of the large industrial plants hiring
men into the thousands, have hired
expert dieterians to go thoroughly
into the matter for the benefit of its
help.
One food expert so employed
evolved the following valuable advice
which the concern in question issued
as bulletin to the wage earners on
its pay rolls:
Blood-making foods are delusion.
All good foods when well digested,
make good blood.
Consdpating foods-white bread.
rice, boiled milk, soup. etc.
Laxative foods-Whole wheat
bread, fresh vegetables, fruits, corn
products. etc.
Avoid extremes OF heat and cold in
food and drink.
Chew your food. your stomach has
no teeth.
There are Ave types of food as fol-
lows:
First-Porteins. Make and repair
tissue. Consist of eggs. cheese, nuts.
beans. peas. flesh, fowl, lentils, etc.
Very important food elements. Con-
centrated foods. Most expensive
type of food Apt to be constipating.
No storage places for them In the
body. Avoid excess.
Second-Fats. Heat producers. Con-
sist of cream cheese, fat meat. but
ter, olives. nuts, olive oil. etc. Excess
fats delay stomach digestion.
Third-Carbohydrat Energy pro-
ducers. The most abundant of all
food elements. Consist of starchy
foods, cereals, bread, macaroni, figs,
raisins, dates, fruits. etc. Starcly
foods should be thoroughly cooked.
Excess stored in liver and muscles.
Laxative tendency.
Fourth-Sugars. Are energy pro-
ducers as found in fruits but not
cane, beet, or maple sugar. Require
but little or no digestion. All fruits,
raisins, dates, figs, etc.
Fifth-Mineral salts Nerve stimu-
lants and bone builders Small but
important part of human sustenance.
fruits in general Spinach and to-
matoes rich in iron. Baked foods con-
tain more salts than boiled foods
III health naans r,lfcarr- fborafpra
to guard ones own health and to
make the community Healthy contrib
utes directly towards the worlds hap
piness. During the first year of
President Wilson'S administration,
there was much anxiety lest he should
break down. OF late mis- health seems
to be better, largely because he takes
care of himself. He not only takes
abundant exercise, but he takes plen-
| ty of sleep and wants nine hours. He
\ is a firm believer in the simple life.
! He seldom remains up later than II
o'clock, and even on the night OF his
| Inauguration, it is said that he eX-
cused himself at 10: 80 and retired, SD
! the orders are lights OUT at eleven
la contrast to the midnight lights
often burning to two and three O'Clock
in the morning when President Taft
was In the white house.
A correspondent asks about sneez-
ing. Sneezing may be due to num-
Der Of causes. Sunlight will cause
sneezing, also the pollen of certain
plants. There are few people who will
not sneeze in the presence of dust.
When one has a cold, sneezing Is due
to nature attempting to cure. Sneez-
ing generated heat for warming the
blood and preventing you from taking
more cold, to help relieve the cold
you have and so does shivering One
does not sneeze with his nose, but
: with the entire body. During the act
every muscle Of the body gives a
jump, sort of spas:n that warns the
entire system. When sneezing "as q
l cold symptom" seizes person, a few
deep breathing exercises will often
help to check the attack.
i NJ. n. writes: why does every
: body try to have the light over the
$ left shoulder when thew readp"