The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-20

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strength such as laundresSes, ETC.
$500 calories a day.
Then check over an average days
menu for yourself, counting the cal
cries, to make sure in the first place
that you are eating your require
ment. Probability is that you are
rot. So the first step to be taken is
to increase your food supply up to
this point, and then strive to add
five or six hundred additional cal
cries to it, daily.
This is where the rub comes, and
the following suggestions 1 hope will
prove helpful.
If at all possible, cut down on
your activities. Don't work to the
point of nervous exhaustion. I know
this is easier said than done, but
perhaps you can take fifteen min
utes' rest after each meal, or a half
hour or longer nap in the afternoon.
This would help.
If you study your work, it is quite
possible that you may be able to
save yourself a great deal. Get q
high stool and sit down to some OF
it; arrange your equipment SO the
feWest possible steps will be required.
Such little airs as these will be
factors.
Choose Appetizing Food
It often is necessary to take food
regardless of appetite, but at the
same time it is wise to choose food
which is we'll liked and which will
digest with the greatest ease. APP
petizing service is a factor, too.
Where there is little appetite,
fluid foods most easily can be taken,
and if the right ones are selected,
worthwhile additions can be made
in the diet. Milk is, of course, a
valuable food of this type. 1t is
good used to augment the diet be-
tween meals.
Tt can be taken hot or cold, with
added cream, in cocoa or chocolate,
or favored with vanilla or fruit
juices, as buttermilk, or in ice
creams and Sherbets.
Raw eggs are another food that
most people find easy to take. They
can be taken plain, or beaten up
with milk, cream or fruit juice. If
taken with milk, the addition of a
little sugar and fayoring makes a
very tasty drink.
Milk Will Help
Three glasses of milk, added to the
regular diet, will mean 500 or more
calorieS daily. An extra pat of butter
AIDED to each meal will increase the
calories by 800. From one to three
tablespoons of olive oil may be taken
after each meal. They figure 10C
calories each. All these suggestions
easily could be followed without any
feeling of discomfort, even by those
with small appetites.
Often, the easiest way to increase
the food intake is by additions
meals-a mid morning lunch and {
mid afternoon nourishment of som,
kind. Or, morning lunch. and &
glass of milk and sandwich JUS
before going to bed answers the
purpose.
The following menu for one day
will suggest how the meals may bt
planned to increase the ca1ories from
an ordinary requirement to about
5000 for the day. It might not be
possible to make this increase al
in one jump, but by gradual ad-
ditionS, so that the digestive organs
will have chance to get used to
the increase.
Breakfast
Prunes. medium 100 calorie,
Grape Nuts. tablespoons -. 100 Galleries
T ZEE; egg Slices .., o % call orie:
Butter, tablespoon ......... 100 Galleries
Cream thin. = cup ......... 800 calories
sugar, l tablespoon ........... 80 Galleries
1880 A. NJ.
Cocoa, As cup ................25 $50 calorie;
Luncheon
Corn chowderr SIS cup ........15o Galleries
Fruit salad. / serving ........ 200 calories
Butter y Tablespoons j5S 6 ssIorjiss
]
! Whipped cream, 2 tablespoons 100 cslorics
P. NJ.
Eggs in orange juice, l egg. ,
/ tablespoons juice, table
spoons sugar ................13 100 Galleries
Dinner
/ Broiled steak 3X1 lex34 inches $50 Galleries
! Scalloped potatoes. l cup -. $50 Galleries
Buttered bectS. l-3 cup .....,. 80 Galleries
| Lettuce and tomato salad. one
serving Observation-Disclosures 200 Galleries
! Sailed almonds, IL ........... 100 Galleries
Broiled custard = cup $50 cflories
| Macaroons, 2 ..............i 100 Galleries
These food values mentioned in
this days menu will give you an
idea of other food combinations and
values. A calorie chart of common
foods also would be helpful. If
can be OF help, shall be glad to
hear from you.
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