Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-03
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through the production OF peer. VI
, course, beef should not be excluded,
other words. it should not constitute
as it does in so many of our homes
one Of the chief articles of the menu.
|, Most of our homes are without
garden or orchard. Fruits and vege--
tables are considered expensive and
non-e essential in many instances; so
we eat, taken as nation, relatively
small supplies of the green-leaved
vegetables and fruits which provide
vitamines, laxative qualities and the
it may be difficult to have a garden,
yet those living in towns may
often enjoy better dietary than
those living in the country.
large proportion of the fruits and
vegetables we produce are rushed to
the towns and cities. A part of
the urban population has the money
to buy them, and in such families the
chances are that the amount of meat
/, consumed is minimized to constd-
cradle extent, and hence the health
of the family is better safe-guarded
than where meat constitutes one of
the chief articles of the food con-
Sumed. There is no excuse for every
one in the country not having plenty
of fruits and vegetables. 1t is
crime against the children that we
should neglect these matters on the
great majority of our farms. 1t is
for the purpose of encouraging an
interest in orcharding and gardening
that this article is written. We can
not hope to have as vigorous and
progressive a people as we should
have unless we supply the growing
boys and girls and the mature men
and women Of the nation with an
abundance Of vitamines and mineral
salts A deficiency Of iron, for in
stance, undoubtedly favors the de-
Of frOnh1p
which is altogether too prevalent;
yet iron is chiefly taken into the
human system through the consump-
ton of vegetables; only very
small amount is just, as essential TO
the larger quantities of other con-
stituents which we may think it nee
eSSary to provide.
AS a nation we are disposed to suf
fer from constipation and all the
ills that flow thereforrm. This is due
in. large measure to the fact that we
do not consume a balanced dietary
IN which the elements associated with
laxative condition Of the bowels
are provided in proper proportion.
If we would eat more Of the citrus
fruits and apples and cut out some
Of the other things, we would all be
advantaged thereby; the daily store
of food required to feed and nourish
the individual or the family could
be reduced quite materially. and the
health ration of the nation be main
tanned on an infinitely higher plane
than it is today.
Mineral salts of course are i'm
portant because they are body reg
ulators. They help to keep the
framework or the skeleton in good
working order; they favor rapid
and complete circulation and promote
good digestion. Why spend so much
effort and energy, therefore, on the
raw products of the orchard and
garden are so essential and relatively
easy to have on every farm? A good
collard patch is literally worth it's
weight in gold during the winter sea-
son; yet, how comparatively few fam
lilies cultivate green's of this charac-
ter in their gardens. Those who do
not like collards can grow what some
are pleased to term the more refined
type of green's. Almost any one can
have a little old frame in the back
yard, which should provide beauti-
full head of lettuce for at least one
meal day during the winter sea-
son. The tomato is one of the east
est and most desirable of vegetables
to cultivate A few plants will pro-
duce large amount of fruit There
is far more truth than fiction in the
saying AN apple day keeps the
doctor away"
1t is not necessary that a dietary
should be costly in order to be health
full. The Italian peasant of southern
Italy lives most economically from
our point of view. His primary food
is polento, which is made Of corn and
beans cooked together. In addition
he consumes vast quantities of green
leaved vegetables: Thus. though his
dietary is simplicity itself, he and his
children grow into VtpnrOuS manhood