The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-04-06
HOME DEMONSTRATION DEPT
By Mary c. Haynie

trim" In order to do this, we need a |
liberal supply of IRON, CALCIUM,
and PHOSPHORUS. Green vege-
tables, fruits, and milk are our best
sources for these three important
minerals.
To quote DR.. McCollum, of John
Hopkins University, in his 'The AM
erican Home Diet" MANY will re-
call how our grandmothers insisted
on the frequent treatments with sui
phur and molasses, the periodical dos
ing with bitters, and the efficacy of
sassafras tea in the spring as means
of thinning the blood which was
during the winter. Among our pio-
ncer ancestors the idea was generally
accepted that there was a need for
spring medicine of some kind. There
can be little doubt that this belief
rested on common experience. We
know that in tn early settlement of
many of the states, the people suffer-
ed great hardships. With little capi-
tai and no food reserve, their winter
diet was generally very simple and
monotonous and, there is good reas-
on to believe that it was CHEMICALLY
unsatisfactory for the maintenance of
health" There are still some of us
who have this belief that we need
Spring Tonic" in the form of medi-
cine. in order to become physically fit
after a long winter. We lose sight of
the fact that often our diets have
been confined to seeds, tubers and
cereal foods.
DR.. McCollum further says: 1T has
oratory animals satisfactorily on any
diet which is derived entirely from ce-
reals (wheat, oats, corn r.cel and olh-
er seeds; tuhors such as the potato,
turnip or beet, together with meats
which arc derived from the muscle
tissue of animals Cham, steak, etc. }.
Even when fed diet, containing
wheat flour, corn meal, peas, beans,
potato, turnip, beets and round steak
young animals have always failed to
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normal adult size, and they grew
more slowly than they were capable
of growing. The same diet with lib
eral supply of milk added produced
remarkable contrast in similar
group Of animals fed at the same
time. The above described diet of ce-
reals, peas, beans, tubers, roots and
meat is also remarkably improved by
the addition of such leaves as celery
tops, spinach, cabbage, turnip tops
and other green vegetables. 1t is OBJ
vious from these results that there is
some remarkable difference between
milk as contrasted with any of the or
dinary seeds, tubers, roots, and lean
meat which are so commonly used as
| food for man and animals
With these convincing evidences in
/ mind, we cannot stress too much, the
Importance of milk, fruits and vege-
tables, particularly the leafy vcge-
tables in the diet as sources of these
/ important minerals, iron, calcium and
phosphorous. Iron for regulatory pur-
poses, calcium for its bone building
qualities and PHOSPHORUS for it's
function in helping build bone, nerve
and cell tissues and to aid in regulat-
ing the neutrality of the blood. For
iron, eat fruits and vegetables, for
calcium, drink milk, eat celery, string
beans, cabbage, caulifiower, carrots,
and spinach; for PHOSPHORUS drink
milk, eat eggs (yolk) spinach, onion,
and whole wheat cereals.
| Milk is our greatest protective
food and its use must be increased
! instead of diminished The liberal
use of milk has made us what we are
No family has the right to purchase
any meat until each member has at
least pint of milk daily and this
| regard as below the minimum. Milk is
| just as necessary for the maInten-
ance of health in the adult as in the
young. | have sought in vain for sew
eral years for a diet which was not
only of character which could sup
| port growth in a young animal, but
''NH "o''' MAINTAIN al auulJ III
state of health over a prolonged peri
Cd
| am convinced that we should ad-
| here throughout life to such diets as
will induce normal growth in child
of three to five years, if we would
maintain the highest state of physical
Well-being of which we are capable.
Let me repeat in closing that the dai-
ry industry has made us what we are,
and that any further reduction in our
composition of milk and its products,
will be reflected in lowering of our
standards of public health and eff
cheney.
Gardening Calendar for March