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winthrop Bulletin }


Now that spring is fully upon us
it seems very timely to stress the
Importance Of keeping our bodies
physically "in trim" In order to do
this we need liberal supply OF
iron, calcium and phosphorus. Green
vegetables, fruits and milk are our
best sources for these three import
ant minirals.
TO quote DR.. McCollum in his
THE American Home Diet:
MANY will recall how our grand
mothers insisted on the frequent
treatments with sulphur and mo-
lasses, the periodical dosing with
bitters, and the efficacy Of sassafras
tea in the spring as means Of thin
ming the blood which was supposed
to become impure and thick during
the winter. Among our pioneer an
ceStOrS the idea was generally ac-
cepted that there was need for
spring medicine Of some kind. There
can be little doubt that this belief
rested on common experience We
know that in the early settlement Of
many OF the states. the people suf-
fcrcd great hardships. With little
capital and no food reserve, their
winter diet was generally very sim
pie and monotonous. and there is
good reason to believe that il was
chemically unsatisfactory for tho
maintenance OF health"
There are still some Of us who
have this belief that we need "spring
tonic in the form Of medicine III
order to become physically fl after
long winter. We lose sight Of the
fact that often our diets have bccn
confined to seeds, tubers and cereal
foods.
DR.. McCollum further says:
ut has been found impossible to
nourish laboratory animals satisfac-
torily on any diet which is derived
,, entirely from cereals (wheat, oats,
corn, rice,) and other seeds: tubers,
such as the potato, turnip or beet,
together with meats which are de-
rived from the muscle tissue Of ami
! mails Cham, steak, etc. Even when
fed diet containing wheat -four,
corn meal, peas, beans, potato, tur-
nip, beets and round steak, young
| animals have always failed to grow
to more than two-thirds Of their nor
NAL adult size, and they grew more
slowly than they were capable of
, growing. The same diet, with a lib
7 eral supply of milk added, produ ceG
Il remarkable ContraSt in similar
groups u5 animals Ted al the same
time. The above described diet Of
cereals, peas, beans, tubers, roots
and meat Is also remarkably i'm
proved by the addition of such leaves
as celery tops, spinach, cabbage, tur-
nip tops and other green vegetables.
1t is obvious from these results that
there is some remarkable difference
between the dietary properties Of
leaves or Of milk as contrasted with
any Of the ordinary seeds, tubers.
roots and lean meat which are com
monty used as food for man and ami
mails"
With these convincing evidences
in mind, we cannot stress too much
the Importance Of milk, fruits and
vegetables, particularly the leafy
vegetables in the diet as sources Of
these important minerals-iron, cal
cium and phosphorus-iron for regu-
latOry purposes, calcium for it's bone
building qualities and phosphorus
for its function in helping build
bone, nerve and cell tissues and to
aid in regulating the neutrality of
the blood. For iron eat fruits and
vegetables; for calcium drink milk,
cat celery, string beans. cabbage,
caulifower, carrots and spinach; for
phosphorus drink milk, eat eggs (the
yolk,) spinach, onion and whole
wheat cereals.
Immigrant Dies of Typhus.
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