Evening star., 1925-11-09
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WINIF'RFD STUART GIBBS
Food Specialist

Every now and again book lovers
are Won't TO regale themselves by
means Of one of their favorite indoor
sports-the making out of lists which
show the books they would choose
to keep by them if forced to relin-
quish all others. Why not adapt this
sport for the benefit of those who
aspire to the acquisition Of -worka bile
information about diet? Is not the
bewildering array of tones and
treatises on dietetiCs the chief stun
bling block in the path OF the lay
learner And may not this informa-
ton he reduced TO its lowest terms?
And will not such reduction. If skill
fully done result in a yearning for
more detailed information?
What is the sine qua non?
II all diet books We're TO burned. let
! us say. by frenzied porulace intent
on working it's own destruction
through rietous living. We should
race such as treat of the fundamental
principles on which the science of diet
is built. Unfortunately for those Of
us who ire in the habitual America n
hurry. few books on diet do just this
and nothing else. The authors feel.
no doubt. that they must improve
the shining hour hy emhroiderins
their themes with innumerable de.
tails. and therefore we must choose
our few Indispensable volumes with
care.
To get down. as the busy man
no doubt would express IT, to brass
tacks. here are a few of the facts
with which we must furnish our
minds divided roughly into facts
about quality or type and facts about
quantity or food.
First. types of food.
We must have body builders and
body renovstors, body regulators and
| body movers Meat, fish. legumes.
milk, eggs and cheese are the chief
builders. Fresh fruits. green and
leafy vegetables and milk head the
list of body regulators, while fats.
, sweets and Starchy food, such. as
bread and cereals. are the mainstay
| of the body as sources of energy or
| moving power. This by no means
| tells the whole story. but the lndl.
! vidual who has really mastered the
/ information contained in that simple
/ para graph has taken a long stride
! toward fun knowledge.
Next comes The matter of quantity.
OF the body builders nd these. let
us remember. are also the body regu-
| lators-we require from $50 to 300
caIories. or mea asures. daily. Just re-
| member Iso that each ounce Of body
| building food yields l13 calories, or
measur of energy. and it will not
| he difficult 10 ascertain whether or not
! the bodybuilding food YOU are eating
! is being served in approximately this
| proportion.
The body regula tors come up next
| for consideration.
! Now. the regulating clements IN
| these foods. the fruits and vegetables
! and milk. are called mineral salts and
vitamins and. important as they are,
| can scarcely be measured SO the
old advice. Eat plenty of fruit and
vegetables" is all that is necessary
since in normal health overeating OF
! these foods is rare.
! The body movers, such as Starches
/ and sweets and fats. may, on the
! other hand. ca silly be measured. Each
ounce of sugar and starch gives III
calories of energy. each ounce of fat
255. So the checking up on our habit
ual consumption Of cereals. bread
! butter, bacon. etc. is an easy matter.
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