Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-10
THE BALANCED DIET"
BY EDWIN F.. BOWERS. NJ. d..
of the yigilanteS.

| No one can do his or her best work
unless properly fed. This requires a
! rroner balance of the elements in the
| food. so that there can be proper
! -alance in the elements that make up
! he body. There are very few products in
| IL the world that have this proper bal
ance.
| Mix is one of these. II contains all the
materials that go to build bone and It's
/ sue Its per cent to 6 per cent of sugar
| and its per cent to . per cent of fat are
annie 10 furnish heat for the body and
force TO run the intricate chemical engine
| that maintains vitality and promotes nu-
| triton and life
But milk cannot take the place of all
other foods. Not with most people FOR
The 81 per cent of water il contains would
| founder many before they got nearly
enough to eat.
In other words the elements that go to
make milk perfect food are drowned
So. one who tried TO live on milk alone
unless he were obese. or unless he pos
Sessed one of those digestive apparatuses
that turned every particle OF 1000 INTO
nutrient rnateriaI-would either get water
logged from the amount of matter 1t
would be necessary for him to drink every
day in order to get his proper number OF
food calories. or he would develop dl-
lated condition of the stomach walls, 10
cether with such a dilution of the gastric
Juices as would destroy MS ABILITY 10
digest real food,
The justly priced and highly famed
staff of life" is the next food that
comes nearest to filling all the require
rrents of a properly balanced diet
Whole nations live almost exclusively
on wheat.
But wheat lacks fat-especially nee
essary TO those living in temperate or
cold climates. That's why we use but
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child. whose body uses up great deal
OF fuel to keep his engine running.
uses butter and bread, instead of bread
and butter.
Potatoes formerly the Irish staff of
life, have this same lack of fats, made
up by the addition of curds and whey
to the "pratie."
The rice of the Japanese and Chinese
is reinforced by scraps of fish or other
proteid food.
The flesh food of the Eskimo is sup
plemented by blubber. and the date of
the South Sea Islander by vans and
other articles of diet.
1t is possible that corn comes nearer
than any other food in filling all the
requirements of balanced ration
one that contains all the elements re-
quired for human nutrition.
Corn is rich in the protein that builds
tissue and repairs body waste 1t con-
tains carbohydrates sugars and
starches, without which the body would
electricity.
1t contains the mineral salts so nee
essary TO the building of bone. teeth
and nerve cells. And it is rich in one
of the most easily digested and most
readily assimilated oils known to
science-an oil that is rapidly replac-
ing butter and cream. cod liver oil. olive
oil and ether fats in the treatment of
all wasting diseases
Experience with corn oil shows that
it is better borne over long periods of
time than most fats-except, of course
the almost prohi bitively priced butter
cream and olive oil. And also it is
pleasant and agreeable to the taste
The average patient will take care
Of dessertspoonful of oil of corn
two three times a day. And it may
be used freely on salads-just as olive
oil is used
Altogether, we are discovering in corn
a food usually fed to hogs and cattle
and hardly known as an article of diet
10 millions of Americans-to say moth
ing of Europeans-thar bids fair to in
crease the food supply of the world in
a most substantial way.
For corn is a well balanced ration.
And, inaSmuch as SS-6 of all the farms
in the country are producing more or
less of il, il ought to help shave some
thing off the top" of this much-mooted
question of living costs.