The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-19
HOME HEALTH CLUB
Edited by Dr. David Fl. Reeder.
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 NOURISHMENT AND ECONOMY
 The time now is when every person should not only know how to get the greatest amount of nntriment from fhe least amount Of cost of foods but each housewife and cook should tlioroughly familiarize herself with the necessary foods to form a, well balanced ration for her family. It will be at least two years before the people in Europe can supply for them selves and from their own soil the amount of foodst11ff that they could normally prodncc and that is con the presumption that the war should cease in the very near future.
 These countries have not for many years been able to grow enough food for their own use and so we must feed them as well as ourselves The De partment of Agriculture at Washing ton has just 1asued a farmers bulletin (No- 805) from the office of home .ecohohties that should be carefully |ystua ai4hssty x4f a6f us and the simple and pfacticafs direction for balanced Iand pa1atab1e ration should be put into everyday use- To give you an idea of its va1ue quote only a small portion. You should send for the bulletin, it is free:
 , Grouping Foods to Show Their Uses Perhaps as easy way as any to select ths right foods is to group the different kinds according to their uses in the body and then to make sure that all the groups are repre- sented regularly in the meals. For ] tunate1y' no more than five groups need be considered: CD fruits and i vegetables, (2o meats and other pro- 1 tein~rich foods, t3) cereals and other starchy foods: l4) sweets; and (5) 1 fatty foods. The materials under 1 each. of these heads have their specia 1 uses It ufN be helpful, therefore l for the h0rsekeeper to form the habi 1 of thinking of the many differen l kinds of food which she handles al
 grouped in some such way as tho fol
 lowing:
 Group 1. Fruits and vegetable such as apples, bananas, berries cit :. turnips. toxna4oes, melons, cabbage green beams gresn peas. green corr and many other vegetables and fruits IVY ILSsSS IAAC IOO0 WOdl4 O lacking in painsra1 substances needed for building the body and keeping
 in good working conditions; in acid which give flavor, prevent corstipa ton. and serve other useful purposes and in minute quantities of other sub
 stances needed for health. By givtnl I-bulk to the diet they make 1t nor ! satisfying to the appetite.
 Group 2. Meat and meat substitu tion or protein-rfch foods: Moder tately fat meats. milk. poultry fish fcheese, eggs, dried legumes Oceans tpeas. 1sntils, cowDeas. peanuts). an fsome of the nuts, These are source i0f an important Bodybuilding mater ;fai. protein. In the case of childre' ipsrt of thes protein-food should al ] ways be whole milk.
 Group 3, Foods rich in starch i Cereals (wiaeat, rice, rye, barley. oat and corn) and potatoes (white an IHweet, Cereals come near to bein Complete foods and in most diets the
 supply more of the nourishment tha.
 any other kind of food. It is not safe ! however. fo live only on cereals. Tn , grains may be simply cleaned and par
 tially hHsked before cooking, as fl .eracled wheat and Scotch oatmeal they may be ground into flour an used asl the basis of breads, cakes
 pastry, ets,, or they may be partiali Ecooked at the factory, as In man Ihreakfast pfepAratiens; or they ma tteps fep9EeA iB the form ef such paste ;ssA HlaeAFsni, Headlss, ete, In al Efhaee forms they furnish the bod EstftH the safns general Haaterlais ltheHgh in different proportions,