Evening star., 1925-11-11
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS
| Food Specialist.
One Mother SAWS
Copyright. lD22 -.

| Thanks to numerous OrganiZa tionS.
philanthropic and otherwise. informa-
tion regarding right diet is fairly well
, disseminated. Those who are working
! in this field may find fresh inspiration
! by visuaIiZing Il Nation of better-fed
! citizens as occupants of the better
! homes for which Il well known organi-
| Zation is laboring,
President Coolidge is at the head of
| this organization, Better Homes in
| America" and associated with him
are Secretaries Hoover. Work and Da-
! Wis. to say nothing of the two dozen
| or more leaders in architecture, in eco
| nomics, in house furnishing and al
1 lied fields who act as directors.
! Probably an actual fedora ton of all
| diet associations is neither practical
| nor necessary, but ii may afford a bit
| of mental refreshment to fini out
| what the better homes" people are
| doing, and to get a new realization of
| the Importance of what is being done
! In this food field, by way OF inspira-
| tlon TO further effort.
The most casual considerat ton of the
! better-homes literature causes one TO
! think. "HoW to Own Your Own Home"
| comes first. How about How TO Own
| Your Own Body? For we do not own
| our own bodies when we have let
| them become slaves to bad-food hab-
! its.
Next comes plan Book of Small
| Homes" The individual who ESSAYS
| to write plan Book OF Small Bodies"
| Will flnd himself confronted with a
mass or thrillingly interesting data
Just think of your own Jimmy or
GeneVieNe as hero or heroine of the
! Plan Book. Wouldn't Ii be fun to
draw up specifications for strong bone
foundations with the help of orange
| juice and milk? To write chapter
on firing and fueling of the busy en-
gines that are TO keep the small
| bodies going? To describe the phos-
phorus bearing foods, the cheese and
egg -yolk. and beans, and wheat flour
and all the rest that act as regulators
for the entire system OF bodily ma
chinery? In short, TO write the whole
story OF what is needed to build small
bodies that later the large bodies may
serve their masters we'll?
Among the aims of the better homes
movement we find the following: ITO
put knowledge of hugh standards in
house building, home furnishing and
equipment and home life within the
reach of all citizens" and ito encour-
age the reconditioning of old houses
TO render them sanitary, attractive
and convenient" d"
If we like to continue our magina-
tive journey into the land of parallels
we may easily spend a pleasant and
profitable half-hour in thinking over
ways of adapting these aims to our
field OF food. Certainly, TO put knowl-
edge of high standards in body build
ing, body furnishing and regulating
within reach of all citizens is "a worthy
ambition, and one in which we may
be glad TO bear even a small part.
1t seems equally certain that it is
worth while to encourage the recon
ditioning of worn bodies by means of
proper food, Only think for a moment
of the falling off in patent medicine
sales likely to follow a nationwide re
form of sufferers from dietary indis
cretions,
What are some of our national
dietary sins?
Dr. Henry {. Sherman of Columbia
University Is authority for the state
ment that the average American diet
is lacking in lime. Others tell us that
we are eXtraVagant in our food eX
penditures, demanding steaks and
chops when the less expensive cuts of
meat would feed us well; serving hot
house fruits in Winter. and the like.
A little determined effort on the part
of every home dietitian in the country
would soon result in nation of better
fed citizens to inhabit the better homes
being prepared by our friends.
Why not begin today?
tCopyright. 1929