The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-02

1 Due to improper selection, ultra retinemen. and faulty preparation or cooking, our diet generally in | cludes an excess of fuel food but a shortage of viamins and minerals. In the instinctive effort to appease hunger We are likely to consume a greater bulk of fuel food than the body can readily handle, and the surplus accumulates in the body, stored in fat layers under the skin, in the abdomen and in and around the internal organs, especially the heart, liver and kidneys. In health a certain amount of fat is stored in these same places in the body, to be drawn upon for fuel in case the food supply fails or falls below the body's daily requirement..
 You skinny ones know l love you as long as you can take it on the only chin you have with a wan lit- tie smile. But l certainly like my women plump. I'm speaking, of course, as a health authority pure- ly. However, that's the way l like 'cm anyway you take it. Now as your sympathetic friend and ad- l mirer, discriminatory, may l not suggest that you read over the pre- ceding three paragraphs carefully and make sure you grasp the lit- tie lesson in nutrition that is com pressed into them. Don't cut it out. It is really quite simple, and if you are not a veritable dumbbell you should be able to learn every thing said there so that in your own words you can tell it to any body else. Clipping such things and filing or pasting in scrapbooks is the worst way in the world to learn, though such files or scrap books may be interesting keep sakes or relics.
 Natural hunger has long since ceased to be the main reason why We eat. Artificial restrictions or conventions or civilized life, oper- ating as does captivity or domesti- cation upon animals. modify the normal factors of hunger and con dition the refleXes concerned in eating.
 How often we eat because host or hostess expects us to enjoy the food offered! Social eating is a uni versal sin.
 Most persons will partake of un- wanted food at any time for the SahS oA u yiilS ooAliN lloNSl dLSl oi flavor or change of environment.
 Like Pavlov's white mice we cas- fly learn to water at the mouth in response to the dinner bell instead of reacting to hunger in the nat ural way. We eat because it is time to eat, everybodys doing 1t now and we hate to be even tigur- atively a skeleton at the feast.
 Wa eat hacnnSa wa hnNn laornaJ to enjoy the stimulation we get from certain foods, particularly meat and meat cXtractives us in broth or soup, sauce or gravy: and having cultivated this habit We feel let dow and weak" when We are unable to have our accustomed stimulation at the usual time.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Streptococcus
 Is the germ streptococcus always fatal when it gets into the blood stream? (Mrs II. r. T.)
 Answer-No. But of course such septicemia or blood poison is serious illness in any case.
 Bran
 Before and after l received your leaflet on constipation l used bran. and l believe you are right about it. However, I cannot find the undoctored article at grocers' or bakers. A friend of mine says you recommend taking d teaspoon full of tiaxseeds now and then Does this mean fiaXseed meal and should one pour boiling water on it first? GA. B. McG.)
 Answer-Feed stores or flour mills would have plain bran. Send 10 cents (coin) and stamped envel- ope bearing your address, for a booklet "The Constipation Habit" which tells you have to use flax seeds. The constipation leaflet Is free to readers who provide the stamped addressed envelope. The booklet sets you back a dime be- sides.
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