Evening star., 1924-02-29

"A, answers ss to rsade5s' guestions rsg.,dng die.
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Kindly inform me as to the merits
of the following diet. I am the un-
fortunate possessor of badly coated
tongue, and at night while sleeping
dream incessantly and talk q good
bit. besides tossing and rolling about,
etc.
one hour before breakfast take
glass of water and an orange. For
breakfast, one large bowl of bran
cereal, one-half pint of cream (four
days a wcek), rich milk with the
cereal the three other days and about
two ounces of figs.
and eaten with two thick slices of
graham bread thickly buttered, one
pint of milk. about two stalks of eel
cry (thres days Il week), q handful
Of raisins and one apple.
For dinner. three or four vegeta-
bles, such as peas, beans, onions, car
rots, spinach. asparagus. potatoes
about three times week fthen only
two vegetables). such as lamb chops,
roast beef or steak; one glass of but
termflk about three times week and
two slices Of graham bread with a
piece of butter.-R. c. w.
AS to the diet which you outline, it
is, in itself, almost ideal. 1t occurs to
me. however, what you say OF a
coated tongue and restless sleep prob
ably indicates one of several things.
Either you are not taking enough ex-
ercise to help in the digestion of so
rich" diet. OF you are perhaps suf-
fering from temporary disarrange-
ment of your digestion.
/ make the following suggestions
In general, as do not know anything
about your age, occupation, ETC.:
Try omittinG cream with your ce-
real temporarily, using whole milk
instead. / strongly suggest that the
fat digestion portion OF your digestive
be well to vary your lunch and post
pone raw eggs temporarily. Put in
their place u dish of cream OF vege-
table soup. such as pea or bean or
cooked vegeta bles. Your dinner plan
$ outlined probably needs q change.
It may be that the cream and the
eggs are at the bottom of the disturb
ancs. To digest these, one must be
very active.
You will understand, I am sure,
that 1 do not advise giving up either
of these valuable foods permanently.
You will probably find, however, that
when you go back TO eggs 1t will be
better to have them shirred or
poached, at least for time.
My baby is thirteen months old and
has always been constipated. Per-
haps you could give mo diet for him
that would help.-W. E. V. II.
1t is very important that you con-
tinue to be systematic about the
baby's food. Some mothers ara apt
to think that when the baby begins
to eat solid food he can do pretty
much as he likes; but this is not true.
l'Re very careful about hours of feed
ing and size of portions.
You do not say whether the baby
| has any bottle feelings or not. USu-
ally at this age a baby is just Gradu-
ating either from the bottle or brea st
| feeding and still has feelings at 8
| and 10 am. and 2, and 10 pm. For