Evening star., 1924-07-11
Answers to Food Questions

Answers to readers questions regarding
diet will be given by Winifred Stuart
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Please tell me what is good to get rid
| of pimples. What diet is good to give a
person who stands much poppy" feel
| ing?-F. M.
Avoid all indigestible foods, or those
| which seem not to agree with you. Such
foods usually are greasy, rich or fried
| foods, as doughnuts, pies, rich cakes,
buckwheat cakes, etc. In some instances
| smoked meats and fish, alcohol, tea, cof-
fee are injurious. The bowels should be
| carefully regulated and water taken
freely between meals.
l suggest that you select for yourself
a diet composed in the main or fresh
fruits, apples, oranges, lemons, grape
fruit, peaches, pears, melons and straw
they agree with you. In addition, eat
all the fresh green vegetables, carrots,
turnips, tomatoes. rhubarb, whole wheat
cereals and breads and from a pint to a
too rich for you use skim milk or butter
| milk. For meats I would use chicken,
white fish, lean meats cooked in any
manner, except fried, cottage cheese
and eggs With a quart of milk day
you can considerably lessen the amount
of meat eaten, and with benefit to your
condition. Milk and other wholesome
foods mentioned above will do more
than anything else to give you that
peppy feeling all Of us need to help US
through the long days
If the pimples do not disappear as
rapidly as you wish, many people find
it helpful to take several cakes Of yeast
daily. These may be taken in fruit
juices, and form a really pleasant sub
stitute for soft drinks. which only serve
to aggrevate this condition.
You realize, of course, that a good
skin is dependent upon absolute
cleanliness; pure soap must be
used; freedom from infection main
If at the end of a reasonable pc
riod you feel that you are not suf-
ficiently benefited, write me again
and 1 will give you a more strenuous
diet but a very effective one.
wonder if you would be able to
tell me If my system demands some
thing that it does not get, for / have
a very silly craving for cornstarch.
Three years ago, when / was to be-
and rolled oats. l ate plenty of both,
as the doctor said it would not harm,
as l would give them up after the
birth. i did give up oats, but not
starch. Last August my second baby
was born and still ! cannot give it
up. If you can advise me 1 will be
truly grateful.-J. H.
/ think you are unnecessarily tax
ing yourself in the exaggerated con-
sumption Of cornstarch. You say
and that you also have plenty of
vegetables and fruits. You evidently
know well balanced diet, and
knowing this. I am sure you will be
| L suggest that sometimes the most
thoughtful of us do not include
enough milk in our diet, and that
| the unsatisfied system. craving for
its natural food, may make queer
demands. Try very carefully bal
ancfng your menus; include an addi-
| tonal allowance of milk, especially
If you are nursing the baby. Try
SLOWLY SLIPPING a glass or half a glass
of milk, or a lemonade, instead of
the starch. 1t certainly is a case of
wili-proving. isn't it? 1t is usually
easier If you have some one to help
you, and / am going to consider that
| you have given me your promise that
you will discontinue the cornstarch
habit. Others have done such things,
and am sure you can. No one can
arord to be slave to habit.
l am very much interested in your
articles and I wonder if you can help
me. Just about a year ago l had a
nervous breakdown and the doctor
| said l was anemic and had very thin
| blood. / have taken all kinds of iron
| tonics. but they are so expensive l
| cannot keep up with them. AS l was
! told that foods containing iron are
sometimes a better blood builder than