The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-02-28
WHAT HAS FOOD TO DO WITH sENILITY'

Correspondent of indefinite age but probably feeling a bit old, otherwise he or she would not
 trouble to ask wishes to know whether the diet
 has any influence on the approach of old age.
 It Is one of those annoying questions that just
 can't be disposed of as can q good many, that
 is, by tossing the letter into the chucker and
 going on to the next. This one sticks Even If
 1 pick up the next letter and scan 1t my mind
 is still on the subject of the last Come to think
 of 1t.
 For months and months now Tony the Per
 petual Pup and have not taken our nip of iodin. 1 wonder whether that Is because our
 interest in holding back old age Is fiagging q bit, or is our interest Tagging because through change of environment our source of supply was removed, or rather we were removed from the source of supply.
 Frankly l think Tony shows more ravages
 than do as a consequence of this shortage In
 our iodin ration. But, then, maybe the Wirish
 Terror thinks l have fallen off moro than he
 relatively. Relatively the Perpetual Pup is
 older than l. and actually imagine hc thinks
 he knows more than do about several things Anyway, he never comedies anything. If there Is any food element which might by
 q stretch Of imagination help to keep person tolerably young and interested at q time of life when one tends to grow dull and dreary, 1t Is iodn and there's really no sense in spelling it any other way.
 Every school child should have q suitable
 iodin ration throughout the school year. to | prevent goiter.
 Adults of mature age who Ego stale" too
 early in life, should have an iodin ration. It Is
 not entirely irrational to say that Il proper iodin | ration retards the progress of hardening of the arteries. If 1t does that it postpones the com | ing of old age.
 Many correspondents of mature age assure | nc that their hair has stopped turning gray | since they started taking an iodin ration. Now | mind, this does not imply that we believe iodin | will restore the original color to gray hair. Al
 that, 1t would be instructive if we could expert | ment a group of volunteer subjects-sce that they received suitable iodin ration from | before birth to the end of life, and note
 whether their hair ever turns gray. We know | now how to prevent decay and loss of the h., know | graying and loss of hair.
 Any reader may obtain complete directions | and instructions for taking iodin ration | Send with the request stamped envelope | bearing your address.
 The natural sources of iodin are chiefly | foods that come from the sea- every kind of sea fish shellhsh, oyster, clam, crab, lobster | shrimp, whale, roc, tisr oil. and such reishes
 or delicacics AS Irish moss, agar or other edible weeds. All these rich in iodin, when | eaten in the fresh state. Preserved, dried | smoked or canned they may be less valua blc | though ordinary canned salmon, for example | retains a considerable part of it's iodin. | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Well, Well, Child Has Group
 Grandson aged ycars has the crOup. (S | Answer--How quaint Food for reflection | Why do babies and young children rareI, | have apasmodic croup these days? Because | they get more cod liver oil spinach and frcsf | fruit juice than the poor tikes did in grand | mas day? Send for instructions for treatmen | and prevention of croup. Inclose stamped | envelop bearing your address, The Ills Called Rheumatlsm | know you deny there is such condition a
 ''rheumatisn' and I believe your contention | about |" gOut" is sound, too. But I am slOwl, | developing some kind of disability in kne' ] and one shoulder and think now in my hip l (Mrs T. Q. D.
 | Answer--Don't let it stiffen your mind | Send dime and a stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for the booklet The Ill
 Called Rheumatism If you get any sugges | tions that help to Timber up the joint disability | let us hear from you again. Even if your, | from Scotland or from New England you should | at least make you get your iodin. One wa, | to do is to take drop so of tincture O | iodin in half glassful of water once a da, | for a month, in each of the four seasons of tn, year.
 | Blend 1 Wife has auburn haIr; laIsband blond. Wha color will tine hair of their children be? (Mrs | r.. T. H.)
 ! Answer-Auburn with gold hue.