Evening star., 1925-11-27
FOOD AND HEALTH
BY WINIFRED STUART GIBBS.
Food Specialist.

Haste makes waste" announced
the old time copybook. AS If we didn't
know that!
Haste in the realm OF food and diet
makes a particularly pernicious form
of waste. This waste il a veritable
Hydra, so many heads" does it pos
seSS.
The first person to be affected by
wasteful haste in the matter of food
is the housewife. who purchases and
prepares it. She goes to market or
phones for food" according to her
circumstances, but II she is sin a
hurry she loses a fine opportunity
to think constructively as to what
she buys and how much she spends
for it. Waste No. 1.
In cooking the food. II Mrs. House
wife Just throws things together"
the result is likely to prove most
wasteful of all the family digestions.
and this in turn leads to waste of
| their individual and collective effi-
cheney.
So we might go on constructing
house that wa ste built. and the chief
guests at the board would be Worry,
Discourag cement and Inefficiency.
1t is of that particular form of
haste, waste. as it affects the assimi-
lation of food, that we are just now
thinking.
What happens in the body when
food is, first. hastily selected: second,
hastily swallowed; third, hastily di
gested. in the sense that we hurl an
| other meal into a long suffering stom-
ach still busily occupied with the
last?
First. hasty selection.
To the hasty shopper for food 1t is
apt to seem like just 80 much mer-
chandise, something to be bought for
the sole purpose Of making the family
wheels go round and then forgotten
| that is, until the bills come in, At
this juncture the hasty food buyer is
apt TO say to herself: Good gracious.
Did we eat all that"
SO before 'phoning for food"-and
ii is assumed that you have a reliable
grocer who Will be on his honor to
| serve you well-know not alone what
you are about to order. but why. Let
those two daily quarts OF milk repre-
sent to your mind lime that is to make
the twins bones hard, to mention but
one Of its many services. Get into
| the habit Of visualizing each item pur.
| chased as contributing to some special
| need OF some special or OF all mem
bers OF the family. What the writer's
call human interest" prevails in the
| prosaic home work OF the housewife
as truly as in the realm of letters!
One good way in which TO visualize
| this special service as given by each
food is by keeping ii record Of food
expenditures. II is suggested that
each housekeeper make out her own
form. as she may then arrange the
| headings so as to show up" the vari-
| Gus food items in which she is most
| interested.
| II the food account shows at a
| glance what have been the purchases
| Of milk. eggs and butter, OF fruit and
| vegetables, OF meat and fish, OF cereals
and -four, Of sugar and OF miscellane-
Gus foods, It will serve as a dietary
guide as we'll as financial. The woman
who first budgets her food according
| TO amount needed will soon come 10
! depend on her expense sheet TO help
/ Ter in checking up on nutrition needs
as we'll as on financial expenditures.
4 The family dietary becomes bal
/ anced" almost automatically with
such measuring rod, and the house
| keeper and home dietitian is then
ready TO think about the next step in
! her campaign for the elimination Of
food waste. Adjusting the food eaten
TO the individual possibilities Of the
| body comes next, and this must be
saved for another day.
| tCopyrisht 1922