Evening star., 1924-05-09
Answers to Food Questions

Answers TO readers questions regarding diet
will be given by Winifred Stuart Gibbs. food
specialist, writer and lecturer nutrition.
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Would you please send me list of
foods for woman who carries a great
amount of albumen in urine? l am
also troubled with constipation and
stomach. Thanking you, | ANN. D.
The fact that you also have a stom-
ach disorder makes me hesitate to ad-
wise you. However. l will make some
general suggestions.
The diet should, so far as possible.
be salt free and with very limited
quantity of protein or body building
material Meat and meat products,
including poultry and fish, must be
omitted temporarily. as must also
eggs and milk.
For limited time the food will be
practically limited to juicy fruits. of
which orange juice, the express juice
of sweet apples and of raisins are
advised. If you are resting in bed
temporarily, you can get sufficient en-
crgy from this exclusive fruit diet
for a few days. A good plan is to
give the fruit juice: half a giassful at
. time, every half or three quarters
Of an hour. Malt sugar may be added
20 the fruit juice Re careful TO have
a variety of fruit, so as to vary the
diet. Rice flakes or rtce jelly may
iuioes and will help to vary the
Jnonotony. Besides the fruit juices
vou may try green vegetables par
ticularly tomatoes, cucumbers, celery,
squash, lettuce and spinach.
When this protein-free diet mas
brought about Improvement you may
advance to the low-protein diet. Your
diet then might be, before breakf ast,
an orange. d small serving OF wheat
cereal with cream and malt sugar a
slice of buttered graham toast. a
quarter OF an ounce of bran and
glass of buttermilk. For dinner. half
2 cup of celery soup. three ounces OF
baked potato and three OF spinach,
With two Of new beets, a slice OF bran
1,read and butter, a glass Of butter
milk a half a cantaloupe. For supper.
half a cup of potato soup, small to-
ynato a generous portion OF lettuce:
with another slice of bran bread and
and a quarter ounce of bran.
This diet should help both the alou-
men and the constipation. | must
warn you, however, that it is to be
,Ised only under the eye Of some
nbysician or one who can watch the
affects on your strength. The diet Is
adapted from the work of physician,
DIR. ]. II. Kellogg, who has had a
worry wide and successful experiences
in feeding just such cases as yours.
T am nineteen years old and the
rnother of a nice, big eight-month-o old
baby. When she was first put on a
hottle the doctor said to use cows
milk with the food preparation, and,
being very inexperienced, I was fool
ish enough to boil it, Since then the
only milk that agrees with her is
condensed She is awfully consti-
nsfed all the time, and seldom moves
without aid B. H., Anxious
You might try the following for
ycuia for the baby: Twp milk,
twenty-four ssnces; water. thirteen