Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-21
Common Mistakes
About Food Values
D, woops nuTcnINsoN, NJ. D.

MAN cannot live by bread alone" still
less Wy carbohydrates and cofnmeal,
Even the Staff Of Life can make only
the walls Of llfe's sandwich and must DO
spread with butter, filled with meat and
well loaded with jam. to make the sacred
balanced ration. The 4-year-old who re-
ylsed and expanded the closing lines OF
his evening prayer-"Glve us this day our
daily bread an put plenty Nv butter on
IT, brought his theology strictly UP to
date Bread and" something else
comes as naturally to our tongues as
the familiar Ham and OF tho short
order beaperles.
We arc fond OF Boosting. and pardon
ably. that we have rationalized our ideas
Of diet and put food problems upon a
purely scientific basis, with accuracy and
precision In place Of guesswork and rule
| Of thumb. This Ia as II should be and a
great Improvement over our hIt-or-mss
methods In the days Of Ignorance. But
every new region opened up offers us
fresh chances Of losing our way, and
each advance Of knowledge brings with
! II new possibilities of mistakes
Ever since we realized that the human
body was an engine driven by the fuel
shoyolcd into It's stomach-furnade In the
/ form Of food, we have naturally been
eagerly asking the question, What IL
the cheapest form OF foodfueI, which can
be burned efficiently and safely in the
J human engine?" We have been in the
\ age-long habit OF eating and regarding as
necessary certain staple foods-wheat-
bread, meat. butter, eggs, potatoes sugar.
/ cte-but perhaps our liking for these has
| been due simply 20 early training at the
/ homo table tradition or convenience. ~
: there anything else which In Just as good
for keeping up proper head of steam
and much less expensive than these Old
standbya and favorltes2
1 AZ the first blush IL looked as II this
4 question would be very promptly and
confidently answered in the affirmative.
Foods are fuels, fuels arc estimated ny
the number OF heat units or calorlea they
contain per pound. Here are many PEI.
feutly good foods, such as cornmcal
potatoes, rice, barley, oassaya, Whioh
contain just a. MANY ealorlos per pound
aa do wheat flour beef. mutton. eEgs and
sugar and are ever 30 much cheaper
Il may be- explained incidentally th.t
falorio. though q sounds rather Ap,
palms, is simply the amount % heat
which will raise one quart ~ water one
drsree IN temperature and has been
adopted simply a. convenient unit %
measurement in foods u n "a further
remembered that su average "real" food
sanh as ptshd meat Uskp or sugar con.
laiha about iWa giprlts per pouua and
that Three sHeh pounds. 0r 5000 palogIts.
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