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Kindly let me know what to eat.
Five years ago I had high blood pres
sure and am nervous and worn out.
eat no red meat. only lamb. fish and
chicken. / was told that chicken was
not good. as there was blood In 1t. l
am over so and my weight Is 1A7
pounds. Will you kindly let me know
how to vary my diet. as / am living
on the same things day after day.
What kind OF soup Is best? Are
grapes, oranges. tomatoes, lean bacon
and veal good? I drink lots OF water.
e. NJ. W.
The best general advice for cases
of high blood pressure Is summed up
in one sentence. Eat more fruits and
vegetables than meat. In other
words. make your diet largely vege-
table in character, with desserts com.
posed of fruits and fruit dishes.
A little lamb, fish and chicken oc-
casionally will probably do you no
harm, although If there is any diff
Guilty besides the. high blood pres
sure you must see a physician be.
fore eating meat at all. AS for your
question about chicken there is no
reason why 1t is not perfectly prop
er. Unless, as I said before. there
Is some other difficulty, see no
reason why you should eat no meat
at all.
l should choose my soup from
the combination Of milk and vege-
tables. Prepare these by cooking
any desired vegetable very soft.
straining SO that the pulp is smooth
and thick and then combining with
equal parts of thickened milk. For
example. to have two cups of good
creamy soup prepare one cup OF
strained vegetable pulp and one cup
Of milk thickened with teaspoon OF
butter and teaspoonful of flour
rubber together and stirred into the
boiling hot milk. Then combine the
milk and vegetables and you win
have delicious soup.
Oranges and tomatoes are excel
lent for you. AS for bacon, II 1t d.
gests we'll that is very good form
Oh lat GdI. StOdA0 ASoNS sS~~s
out of my diet entirely.
VIII YOU tell me something about
the good we get from chilling our
foods? I know. of course, that 1t
is necessary to keep them in the
refrigerator during the warm weather
TO prevent spoilage. l also know that
a certain amount of our cooling IS
necessary at times during the VIM
ter. l should like, however, to know
a little about the reason for these
factS.--M. T. l..
This Is a very good question. as 1t
relates directly to the final good that
food NAV do to us. AS you probably
know, electric refrigeration Is COM
ing more and more in use and its de-
creasing cost will soon make it econo-
mical for families living in small
quarters Now as TO the theory
involved in refrigerating foods. Frank
Is, all foodstuffs contain some water
and those that contain great deal
are more easily spoiled than those
that are somewhat dry. Both moist.
ure and heat cause decaying to go
on very rapidly. One cause of decay
in foodstuffs is found in several diff
ferent kinds of tiny organisms. These
are vegetable in nature and one group
we call bacteria These are all so
tiny that a microscope must be
used If we are to see them. Briefly.
the theory of keeping foods cold or
chilled rests on this fact. Properly
adjusted cold prevents the growth Of
these little organisms.
OF course, this does not even begin
TO tell the whole story. but 1t does
give you the theory on which to work
when you are looking up information.
II you would like to study the ques-
ton / advise your writing to DR..
Mary T.. Pennington, 81 Chambers
street, New York City. DR.. Penning-
ton will see that you have helpful
information that will give you just
what you wish to know.
Do you consider ginger bread and
molasses cake good foods for child
rem ?-L. K. L.
If the children are old enough to
eat an ordinary mixed diet both of
these desserts are excellent. ! should
not give them to children under the
school age. One reason why they are
good Is that the molasses contained