New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-21
Your Health
How to Keep It.
Causes of Illness ~

BY DIR. HUGH S. CUMMING
Surgeon General. United States
Public Health Service
The nearest thing one can get to
a balanced ration in one food is
milk. A small glassful Of milk. that
is. five ounces, contains approM-.
mately 100 calories of fuel value,
1t conta aims protein, carbohydrates.
and fat, and in addition valuable
ferments that aid in digestion
1t Is rich in organic ''.al's and
vitamines. those compounds which
are so important and nechssa y 10
human health. =
There are few normal digestive
systems which have any trouble
with pure milk provided the milk
is taken into the body slowly and
provided too large a quantity of
milk is not taken at one time. In
severe cases Of acid stomach 1t NJ
be necessary TO add vichy, big l.
Donate of soda, or lime water.
Milk is more digestible If 1t is
taken alone between meals.
You should remember also that
no other food requires such scril-
pu(ous cleanliness at every step,
Bacteria are as fond of milk as
most intelligent humans and y
great number of infections may he
spread through unclean milk.
You can understand the imporr
lance of clean production better, II
you realize that even the taste of
milk Is affected by the food Of the
COW and by lack of cleanliness.
Watch Ice Cream
Ice cream, which is a favoritc
milk product, depends OF course
for it's food value upon its conf
position. If Improperly made, leo
cream may be Of poor quality and
it may be made under unsanitary
conditions. -
You should know something
about the conditions under which
your favorite brand OF ice cream
Is being manufactured.
Dirty Ice cream may transmit
typhoid and other infectious dis
eases just as dirty milk may. The
food value OF ice cream is general
ly higher than most people realize.
An order*of good ice cream at
lunch counter contains practically
as many Galleries as a ham. chicken
or cheese sandwich. You should
know this fact also because q
couple Of dishes of rich ice cream
following g. heavy dinner may
prove distressing last straw on
an already overloaded stomach.
Physiologically, also, the intro
duction of large quantities Of ir@
| cold materials into the'' stomach
has a marked effect in checking
the ferments from the inner coat,
Ing of the stomach. Ice cream
should be eaten slowly in order
that It may not reach the digestive
organs at such low temperature.
Concentrated Food
Butter, another milk product, is
a fat and is a very concentrated
food. Butter, like all fats, should
not be eaten In humps. The diges-
ton of fat should be made easy.
There are few more delicious or
better foods than :well-made fresh
butter. You should know. however,
that hot melted butter taxes the
digestion. { The reason for this IL
that when buffers melted the wa.
ter which separates the small glo-
bules OF fat In evaporated. This
evaporation makes the attack on
melted butter by the digestive
juices much more difficult.
Cheese deserves to be used 4 II
more generally than it is. 1t Is an
easily digested food. A pound OF
ordinary store cheese contains
about as many caloriesI as a pound
Of lean round beef and about four
times as much protein. =
II you are troubled with indiges-
ton after eating cheese do not con.
clude that cheese is not good for
you. Your indigestion may be due
to the fact that you have forgotten
that cheese should be over-chewed
and that cheese should not be eaten
in too large quantity. Much, OF
the trouble caused by cheese Is due
to under-chewing and over-eattug.
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