Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-04-25
Answers to Food Questions

Answers 70 readers questions regarding
diet will he given by Winifred stuart
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dress: Winifred Stuart Gibbs. 81 West
39th street, New York City.
l am Z very worried mother. My
siz-month- old baby is always very
constipated, although she is healthy
and fat, has hard flesh, sleeps fine
and is 4 quiet baby. I feed her with
graham cookies made into mush, give
her cream of wheat, boiling three
teaspoonfuls in eight ounces of water
for two and one-half hours and add
one ounce of milk to 1t. She don't
even digest any of this. I feed her
every three hours regularly, last
feeding at 10 pm, then she sleeps till
in the morning. Please be SO kind
and inform me what to do and what
l should feed her on now. c.
1 suggest that you make up the
baby's food something like this: Top
milk, 90 ounces; water, 10 ounces;
milk sugar. tablespoonfuls; barley
-four, tablespoonfuls. Mix these to-
gether and divide into five feelings
of seven ounces each. This means
that tho baby will be fed twice in
the morning, twice in the afternoon
and once in the evening. Give her
orange juice between feelings, not
more than two tablespoonfuls.
This is the simplest and the best
diet for a child of this age and I ad-
wise that you do not add anything to
the milk except what I have told
you. Those quantities are sufficient
through the seventh month. At the
beginning of the eighth month in
crease the top milk to "a ounces, cut
down the water to 1873 ounces in
crease the milk sugar to AZ table
spoonfuls and the barley flour to 3
tablespoonful. Make this five feed
ings of seven and one-half ounces
each.
The orange juice should prevent
the constipation.
I am suffering from nervous de-
building up~the nerveS-D. O. r.
In the first place anything that
builds up the body and general health
builds the nerves. In other words. we
TO longer feel that any special food
is needed as nerve food.
You do not tell me anything about
your age or occupation therefore,
can give you only general sugges-
tons
If the nervous debility comes from
poisons in the intestines, as very
often happens, then l advise a laxa-
tive and non poisonous diet. In this
connection, 7 should like to say that
these poisons sometimes form be-
due to special nerve strain. Ner-
vous tension of this character often
directly affects the liver and other
organs of digestion.
No matter what the cause of your
nervous fatigue may be the laxative
and non-poisonous forming diet will
be useful even although it may not
be all that you need.
Such a diet should include all
fruits, especially fresh and dried figs,
dates and prunes. Bran mush, either
bran added to oatmeal or one of the
bran preparations now on the mar
ket. Bran mullins. shredded wheat or
whole wheat fakes. The vegetables
ships, cabbage, beets, spinach, cell
cry and others with coarse fiber.
Matted milk, butterrnilk and fruit
juices will make good beverages. AS
to accessories. / advise paraffine oil
to be used as a laxative agar or veg
etable gelatine and warm enemas at
night until absolute cleanliness of
the bowels is insured. Some author
tiles insist on three movements d day
for a short time. You must be guild
ed in this by your own condition.
I have been troubled now for near
ly two years with pimples and black
heads. Will you kindly advise me as
TO whether or not it is due to my
food or way Of eating, as / have tried
every external remedy obtainable?-
n. s.
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