The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-04
VARIETY IN DIET.

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do not believe In great variety
of food at one meal-a ten or twelve
course dinner, or anything Of that sort,
Neither do think 1t Is best to restrict
the diet to one or two or three arti-
Giles of food eating the same thing
day In and day out. The digestive or
gans get into rut and become slug
gish.
As a rule, the more civilized man
becomes, the greater becomes his va
riety in diet. AS have said, variety
In food does not mean great variety
at any one meal, nor does 1t mean rich
pastries and indigestible stuffs. /
think that a meal of two or three ar
ticles Is really better than a greater
number, but each meal should be diff
ferent from the others. Breakfast,
dinner and supper should consist of
different articles of food, and these
be varied from day to day. A va
riety of wholesome foods well cooked.
The sensible housewife is the one who
does not serve to husband and chill
dren the same things day after day
until their appetites are cloyed and
their stomachs 60 on a strike. The
food should vary from season to sea-
son, from day to day, from meal to
meal.
Eat meat, eat fish, eat vegetables,
eat fruits, eat cereals, but do not try
to eat them all In one day. Remem-
Der your body is made up of many diff.
ferent elements, and 1t is best nour.
ishcd by many different kinds of foods
Ihere Is no single food, not even milk.
that will keep man In health and
Slgor for any great length of time.
Even the domestic animals are kept in
oetter condition by slight changes in
diet, or changing from one pasture to
announcer. Nature has provided such a
variety of products for food that IL
seems only reasonable to conclude
that they are of use in the nourish.
ment of the body.
we may change our coat twice daily
ana substitute new one as often as
the fashion monthly leader dictates a
new style; but, no variation in clothes
alters the personality, whereas the
1000 we ear may either improve or
oeteriorate the character of the body
which is our soutgarment.
The fact that important changes in
animal characteristics are produced nv
variation In food cannot be douhtad
by any observer of birds and animate
IN a state of domesticatien. Seeing
then that the food plays so great a
part IN these cases, it may safely be
inferred that its effects will be still
more apparent in the civilization ot
mankind. This being found true ia
IL not mighty desirable that we should
seek to adopt diet tending directly
10 improve the body, in order that il
may become a more efficient vehicle
tof the mind, or, more correctly
speaking, the ego? a.,- =
A sickly, waning appetite can fire..
quently be stimulated by some exceed.
ngly simple change in the commonest
articles OF daily food. For example.
slices of dry bread are particularly
unlnViting, but the same bread, light.
ly Drowned, with delicately poached
egg resting on the crisp toast, becomes
altogether another item in the danv
menu. There are some forty or tifty
ways in which to prepare potatoes
yet how few are the tables wheye one
sees the vegetable save in the starao
typed boiled, mashed, or friedI A
great variety o. delightful dishes can
be made with apples at all seasons NJ
the year. There is no need to enum.
crate the host of what are known no
made dishes. 1t is always better to sat
on the family table, not courses ~
elaborate dishes, but a wholesome
agreeable, and yet economical divnr'
sity of food.
The best route to health IN relation
to food is by way of variety. AIwoys
variety! 1t need not necessarily cost
any more than the deadly monotonv
either In time. labor or money. In
fact 1t should cost less In all direc.