Evening star., 1926-10-12
FOODS FORM TOPIC
OF MEDICAL BODY
Preparation of Meals by Safe
! Health Methods Discussed
by HomeopathiSts.

A mothers education In the art or
preparing dinner would have been
broadened yesterday, while her !uog
1uent in matters of food might have
suffered from the strain of.her own
perplexity, If she had attended the
meeting of the Eastern Homeopathic
Medical Association at the Washing
ton Hotel.
She would have learned ways Of
making the feared foods, such as corn,
quite palatable and harmless, and the
accepted foods even better. she
would have heard milk condemned as
a food for her growing children by one
authority and praised by another so
fervently that she would hardly know
what to do.
1t was DR.. William r. Baker or
Hahnemann Medical College, Phila-
Ielphia, who presented the food-im-
provement idea. He declared that ii
foods are exposed to the rays OF the
sun before they are cooked they will
be improved to the extent that phySi-
cal growth in persons who eat foods
that have been so treated VlSlbly VIII
putdistance the growth of those who
Fat their foods in the accepted way.
Dr. Baker explained that the ultra
violet rays of the sun break up and
distribute through the food the phos-
phorus and calcium, the two valuable
elements in foodstuffs.
Caution Is EnjOined
It was explained. however that
foods SO treated must be exposed IN
the direct, unhindered ray Of the sun
and not in ray that has passed
through the glass in the kitchen win
dow. for ultra violet rays cannot pen
pirate the ordinary glass. DIR. Bakers s
advice is to place foods in an open
dish and the dish on the outside win
dow sill for a time before cooking. AS
q novelty, he told his fellow medical
men that while the food Is basking
In the health ray of the sun refriger-
elton can be in progress beneath the
dish so that the food will not decom-
pose.
In support Of this belief. DR.. Baker
told of experiments upon rabbits
which had been fed ordinary food
and that which had been exposed to
sun rays. The bunnies of the plain
food diet were just plain Dummies,
while those that had eaten the sun
bathed food were of larger size.
DR. Baker said sun -bathed food
was being fed to tubercular patients
tH IuIlduelIDIlld Will lIdii hCu iCouAlo'
DR.. Baker also told of a means of
eounteracting sunburn. He said the
idea is used in the out doors
tubercular camps where children are
exposed almost nude to the sun.
They are fed carrots and spinach in
considerable quantities and this diet
Colors their blood a deeper hue and
so the skin itself is turned a deep
tan. The ultra violet rays of the
sun are thus counteracted so far as
the burning is concerned and the
children may play and work in the
strong rays without the discontinue
Of burning.
Milk as Food Put Under Ban.
Or. ]. r. Simonson of New York
threw a bomb into the old theory
that milk is natures own food. -
lie condemned milk as food for
any one save infants as "abominable, u"
and so the mother who urges her elder
children to drink milk every day is
puzzled. If she doubts DR.. Simon
sons theory she has support by DR..
Charles Rennette of Waterloo, Iowa,
who defended the milk diet Vigor-
ously. DR.. Simonson believes that
milk IS bad because it has positive
81 effects upon the digestive organs
which are craving solid food. Nature
herself supports his theory, DR..
Eimonson says. when she takes from
a mother animal the milk with which
She has nursed her offspring during
It's extreme youth. In passing, the
New York doctor declared that chill
dren should be given solid foods as
soon as their teeth have reached a
sufficient development to chew if.
His chief opponent, DR.. Bennette,
based his beliefs on the food content
of milk, which, he says. includes all
the necessary elements for the human
system.
But whether she believes that milk
s. "abominahle" or marvellous"
mother can listen carefully when Dr.
SimonSon characterizes a slice of
cake eaten by children between meals
es Il slab of tombstone"
Crime Penalties Discussed.
discussion of crime and its pun
Sshment was instituted yesterday aft
ernoon, when DR.. II. |. klopp, Allen
tOwn. Pa. declared that imprisonment
IF law offenders was revenge" and
that prisons were crime colleges from
which novices We're graduated as ex-
pert criminals. DR.. Charles Bennette
q" Waterloo, Iowa. diSa greed with the
ideas set forth in a paper by Dr.
h}opp and in support Of his cOnten
fion that criminals deserved quick and