The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-17
Home Health Club
Edited by DR. DAVID H. REEDER, Chicago

One mans food: The mental atti- tude toward any kind of food will have a direct bearing upon its palata- bility and digestibility in many peo- pie.
 This is especially true of children. i Let a number of them approach a ta- ble, none of them very hungry; there are several dishes of food that are new to all but one or two, and one Of these in the usual childish manner of ex- aggeration tells the others how vile certain dish is and how it made him sick and another child nearly died from eating it. Now the dish in ques- ton may be both good and whole some but seventy-fve percent of the children will refuse it, and if forced to eat it are very likely to experience more or less serious distaste besides are troubled afterwards and made partially i'll. have seen them nau- seated to such an extent as to lose 1 their dinner.
 Another new dish is pointed out by another child as the best ever and it | goes into raptures over it's merits. AL though not nearly so good or whole some as the other, the children eat it with pleasure and benefit.
 | During the last year we have tried out many new dishes at our home, and we have learned that it pays to get up considerable enthusiasm before hand in regard to the gustatory en- joyment to be had. If there is any doubt about the way the new dish Is to be received by the children, we coach the oldest boy privately and as he is helped first the others watch anx- iously to see whether it is a success or failure.
 Some people are much more sensi- tive to the medicinal effects of foods than others and may be made i'll by the same food that is a splendid tonic to another. To illustrate: There are
 somewhere near 25,000 physicians in the United States that frequently use
 a high potency drug labeled, "Avena
 Sativa," and they get splendid results
 from u le prescription. "1t is re- markable nerve tonic," is the way one noted medical writer describes it, and
 I agree with him perfectly, but in-
 stead of giving the high priced pre- scription, I tell the sufferer to eat a dish of we'll prepared oatmeal. Look
 in your dictionary and find the Latin
 names for common oats, "Avena Sa-
 tiva." The laboratory is a poor place to go to find out the dynamic power of a drug, medicinal plant or food. Many an excellent remedy has been thrown
 out of the National Formulary," the
 "U. S. Pharmacopeia," and the coun-
 cils of learned physicians because they
 could not find by analysis in the lab
 oratory any specific chemical that
 could be separated and named that would give the effect that is always SC I certain when administered by the so-
 called herb doctors"
 To illustrate: The expectant moth
 CT among the natives of America, the
 Indians, were in the habit of using a
 tea made from cimicifuga and caulo- phyllum for several weeks prior tc
 confinement and they passed through
 the ordeal safely, seldom requiring any
 assistance; frequently there was no in-
 terruption of the daily routine of life I have recommended carefully prepared comDlndIlOn or these nerDS to all of the Home Health Club peo- pie for many years with perfect re- suits, and yet the laboratory test vii not show why.
 The department of Pure Food and Drugs has prosecuted many makers \ of remedies because the chemical an. a alysis of the preparation did not dis close the remedial qualities claimed 4 one manufacturer, however, took is
 sue with the government and proved I to the satisfaction of the court by SC : many witnesses that had actually re 4 ceived the benefits claimed, that II
 spite of the chemists, he won the case The dealers and makers of fakt
 remedies, that are made or compound
 ed only to sell and regardless of tht
 medicinal effects or lack of effect a are justly condemned and we are al
 glad that the courts are there to pro S tect the innocent sufferer.
 The use of so much fresh, greer & food from the war gardens is havin, H decidedly beneficial effect upon tn
 health of many people and is still o fl greater benefit to the children, es
 pecially when they grow it themselves