Evening star., 1924-06-13

will be given by Winifred Stuart Gibbs. food
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fred Stuart Gibbs. 81 West seth street. New
York city.
For the past two and a half years 1
have been ailing with what the doc
tors diagnose as colaitis. l also have
a poor pulse and at first complicated
with dropsy. My nurse says no raw
fruit and no laxative food of any
Kind. no lettuce. 1 will thank you for
a list of foods suitable for my case
IG.
You should have very easily di-
gestible foods. Clear or cream soups.
white meat of fish, the soft part of
oysters, fine cereals such as farina
cream of wheat, wheatena and matted
breakfast food, tea and conee, cocoa
made with water, buttered toast, stale
bread, puree of potato. peas, spinach
stewed celery or baked squash. 1t
may be that you cannot take green
vegetables at once, but work them up
gradually.
Starchy pudding, such as rice, ia
rina, gelatin desserts.
Fruits, coarse vegetables and sweet
foods must be avoided. Usually milk
must be omitted.
Please tell me at what age healthy
children should be given such 1ooos
as raw celery, lettuce. cheese cram
berry sauce and such cereals as
shredded wheat.
1t is best to wait until children are
ten years old or so before giving them
raw celery Younger children may
have this valuable food stewed until
tender or served in cream soup. Ten
der lettuce may be given to children
of six or seven years. Cheese for all
children should be grated and stirred
smoothly blended. The sauce may
then be poured over toast, macaroni
or rice. Cranberry sauce is better re-
served for active children of ten years
or more. Fruit acids may be had
from other fruits. Shredded wheat,
IL we'll softened in milk, may be given
to young children of six or seven.
Would like Information regarding
balanced diet for a child four years
ODD. r.
Breakfast should have a small
orange sliced or six prunes, or three
tablespoons cooked berries; a poached
egg on a slice OF toast or three heap
ing tablespoons of cereal with milk
and sugar or two slices of bacon;
two slices of toast on the day when
the cereal is given, and cup OF milk
each day.
Dinner should offer a small serving
of chicken or broiled chop or small
serving of roast beef or small beef
chip: two heaping tablespoons Of mashed
potato or of rice; three tablespoons
of asparagus tips or summer squash
or stewed tomatoes or string beans:
and a dessert of three tablespoons of
ice cream or baked apple or fresh
pear, peeled, or three tablespoons Of
pudding.
Supper should have a cup of cream
soup with toast or three heaping
tablespoon o. baked macaroni; on
at dinner three tablespoons of
creamed spinach or minced cream
celery or creamed caulif1ower. The
supper dessert should be plain choco-
ing to the type of dessert given at
dinner. There should be cup OF
milk to drink.
Will you kindly give me advice or
diet? / am fifty-fve years OF age. |
have liver trouble and get bilious if
1 get the least bit constipated. A
great deal of bile seems to come out
Of my system. Do some foods make
more bile than otherS?-E r.
The first thing to do is to give your
digestion as much rest as possible.
II you are not too much run down, 1t
may be well to give your stomach
complete rest by taking only water
for day, but do not do this II you
are at all weak.
The best foods for you to take are
milk, gruels. cream soups, milk toast,
soft cereals. custards, soft green
vegetables and chicken.
AS your condition Of biliousness i'm
proves return to more full diet
There are no special foods that
cause the formation Of bile. Bile is
normal and appears in all healthy
systems. When its secretion begins
in excess il is sign of indigestion.
am in constant fear OF eating 6
something that will be harmful to me.
so will deeply appreciate any advice
YOU may give me. l am young man
twenty years of age. l have recently
had an attack of influenza which left
me in weakened condition. 1 am
troubled with gas, heavy feeing
meal. 1 have a general listless feel
ing, am lacking in my usual pep. !
am afraid to eat too much fruit, and
suffer from constipation. 1 would
like you to send me diet which
would tend to help me increase my
weight and at the same time not be
too great a strain on my digestive
organs Thanking you for anything
you may do for me, I am.-L G.
My first advice to you is to stop
worrying about your diet You are
50 young that the after effects OF in
fluenza will probably naturally disap-
pear. I know just how difficult it is
not to worry, particularly as in
fuenza is a disease which lowers the
vitality. l must tell you, however,
that if you can force yourself to for
get your digestion except when you
are planning a reasonable diet, you
will find that this very act of keep
ing cheerful will help you.