Evening star., 1925-12-03
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist.

Next time YOU are conscious OF
feeling blue" and depressed, when
the world seems leaCued against You
and your happiness; when work
draGs and pleasures PAL. ask Mother
Nature, that most scientific of gar
deners. To let YOU into some Of her
secrets.
She viii tell YOU that the intes-
final tract. where 50 important part
of the digestion goes forward. may
be likened to a garden. planted to
beautiful flowers. and capable of he
coming 50 choked with noisome
weeds aS to give The flowers scant
opportunity to reach healthful ma
| turity.
The chances are that the old lady
will tel YOU that the children are
not the only ones VIII" m>N be ben
efited by Il food alleSory. and if YOU
are wise YOU will iS.en, ponder and
put in practice the Su%@C CStionS given
YOU by this practical gardener OF
your body.
These weeds | am telling YOU
about for Instance" Mother Nature
will say. are probably at the bottom
of your depressed feelings. If the
flowers in the outdoor garden were
a BILE TO talk to us. don't Non suppose
the panSies would tel = plaintive tale
OF NiScouragement over those horrid
weeds? can't YOU ima Gine the roses
saying petulantlN: How do they eN-
pect me 10 keep my complexion when
those pleheian crowths arc allowed to
interfere with my exercise and SO
on"
And then Mother Nature would go
on To tell us that the health promot-
ing organisms or flora" as The
medical folk term them. may he lik-
ened to The flowers in = real garden
and the weeds" in our bodies are the
health destroying bacteria that choke
the good ones. if we let them develop
in our systems
The worst of il is that the weeds"
in the body are even more deadly
than those in the garden. for If they
once get a foothold iu the intestineS
it is good bye first /" intestinal ac-
tivitN and cleanliness then to cheer
fulness, then to health and. finally
perhaps. To life itself
TO change the Intestinal fora" as
the physician phrases it. we must
first get rid of the poiSOns generated
by the health h-destroying bacteria
and then we must help Mother Ma
ture In her night Tor beautiful and
orderly garden by giving the flowers"
or life promoting bacteria = chance
to grow and multiply
So we have TWO esnOnSibilitieS-
first. that of keeping the intestines in
such an actively healthy state thar
waste matter will not accumulate for
il is in these masses of waste food ma.
terial that the harmful bacteria de
Nelop: secondly. to eat the foods that
will promote healthy growth Of the
bacteria that protect the body from
the pOiSons generated by the harmful!
orga niSmS
As for the first point. keeping the
intestineS active. rouGhage is the main
essential. Coarse vegetables and hran
prepare tionS will offer the most eff.
cient help in this direction. The chief
thing to remember is that many per
sons are afraid 10 eat bran in large
enough qua ntities 10 insure movements
OF the bowels. Bran does not irritate.
nor do the coarse Veceta bleS provided
OF course. that there is no individual
rea son against the Use of that tvpe Of
food. SO do not be satisfied unless YOU
are sure that the undigested portion Of
every meal has been expelled from the
body Two tablespoons of bran or
sugar added to some one food at each
meal will usually be sufficient. pro
Vided the rest of the diet is composed
largely of vegeta bles and fruits.
The diet should be largely of fruits.
vegetables. cereals. buttermilk. matted
milk, gelatin puddingS. fruit ices.
malt honey and cereal coffee with
cream.
tCopyright 1921
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speak by lip-readin- under the Lon.
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piano and act scenes from Shakes
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