The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-17
WHAT HAS DIET TO DO WITH
 GATISTONES

Certain foods which contain considerable 1 cholesterol should be excluded from the diet of an individual who has inflammation of the gall sac, whether gall-stones are known to be pres ent not. Most gallstones composed of
 successive layers of cholesterol deposited from the bile together E-ith bile pigment and more or less calcium. The chief foods which contain choesterol yok of egg, cream, butter liver,
 brains all animal fats, peas, beans, wheat, olive oil.
 But what is poor victim of cholecystits | (gall-sac infammation) to eat if not these very things nonchalantly delete? Well, there | are still popcorn, peanuts, candy and spinach | what more could one want?
 But wait minute. It is somewhat com plicated. Drs Krause and Whitaker observed 1 experimentally that the gall-sac q use this | term because the term gal1-bladder confuses | the lay reader) contracts and emptes itself in response to the taking of any fat or oil or
 greasy food, but it does not contract in response to carbohydrate food (starch sugar) nor in response to proteid food Clean meat, white of | egg, cheese) They also found that the odor or | sight of savory food when the subject is actu- | ally hungry fails to cause any contraction of | the gall-sac. From these studies. made on ami | mals the investigators concluded that perhaps | the excruciating pain accompanying gall-sac | contractions may be allayed or prevented in cases of gall-stones by avoiding fats, and keep l ing the diet confined to proteins sugars and starchy foods. On the other hand, the inves- tigators suggest that in cases of gall-sac trou-
 ble where drainage is desirable. liberal use of | these fats in the diet may be advisable. How about it, folks-do you like lots of cream and butter and lard and ham and breast | of chicken and do these things like you? If you have gal-sac trouble, does your gall-sac
 need drainage? If it does, have some more gravy and do help yourself to the beans. Candidly, if I had something wrong with my | gall don't think I'd bother much about my | diet. If found that fats hurt me, I'd try to do | without the more painful items. On the other | hand. if found could get away with toler- able amount of fried eggs, Carolina ham. Vir- ginia sausage, I'd consume my share of these Americana. As for the cholesterol-c l-containing | items. I'd endeavor to go easy on them though , there is plenty of cholesterol in the body any way that is, in the healthy body, and so think l the attempt to eschew such food is of question able efficacy-it is good enough principle in
 theory. but it has yet to be proved eff1cacous In practice.
 We must not lose sight of the important | thing we DO know about the formation of gall | stones-namely, that the usual fore-runner or | beginning of the trouble is some kind of bac- | teral infection of the gall-sac.
 In my judgment the four things most needed by one with gall-sac trouble with or without stones are CD less food, CD more fresh raw | fruits and raw veketables, (3) more exercise. and (4) more belly breathing.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Buy a BusheI of Wheat I saw your recommendation of plain seed wheat 1t comes from the thresher, as an ideal breakfast food. For three months have | been eating it. and find it very tasty. Also it
 I've | passed the word to several friends who
 have the physic habit and they are getting good Answer-Thank you. Now if every family were to purchase bushel of plain wheat. either directly from the farmer who grows 1t or from the imll or feed store seed store, | it would help the depression considerably, be- | sides improving general health. Trouble IS so mony people so dumb they imagine wheat as nature produces it Is not quite fit for man 10 | eat-they like to think the manufacturer adds something essential to it in his factory. The | manufacturer robs the wheat of some of its health giving virtues and so gives the nostrum
 makers and the quacks fine break. No Takers
 What have vou fn offer m written | gardng nervous condition? e. A. P.) i Answer-Only sympathy.
 Barefoot Child
 What harm Is there in a child going bare- | foot? Can n child catch any dscasc in that way? (Mrs NJ. M.)
 | Answer-Every child should be allowed to | go barefoot as much as possible for the benefit | of the feet as well as the general health. Down | south a child or adult may contract hook | worm disease by going barefoot In primitive places where the ground Is polluted with hu- | man excrement. Anywhere in a gymnasium. people go barefoot child may contract ring worm. foot itch athletes foot.
 Caught Mapping
 Even if exposure to cold or danipness can not cause any form of "crl" may 1t not cause con- | gcstion? (Ars IT. G. E.)
 | Answer-I suppose 1t may cause congestion | in a case where the individual Is already Ill or very feeble. but not in a fairly healthy person. Tin Doctors at Odds | Some high school girls in our camp have bi. olDgy teacher who condemns iOdin for first aid
 disinfcction of wounds and highly recommends
 mcrcusoclir0mc. which she declares all hospi-
 tnIs use. tG. |. Fl
 or wounds, though it is true iodin smarts more \ than oHrouan G0an