The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-09
WHAT KIND OF FOOD MAKES EATp

Even if one should attempt 10 cut out eating as business or a social sin or a pastime or a abit and return to eating for the sim pie pleasure of satisfying the de- mand for the body for food, 1t would be difficult to obtain the proper food. All food comes from the land or tthe sea. If we used the food as it grows, we should suffer few ills or deficiencies of nu- triton. But when the manufacture. preparation, refinement and cook ing is done, the product is alto- gether different from the original food, in many instances. It does not entirely appease hunger, for the obvious reason that it lacks elements that the body demands. And so one eats and eats and after a number of years succeeds Tn getting fat.
 Nearly every day some one in- ouires with anxiety about the, ha- bit of eating raw starch, raw po- tato, raw carrot, other vegetable, cereal or manufactured food prod uct. Far from being harmful, such a craving is rather healthful and should be fully gratified. Eat a handful of raw wheat every day; it's fine health habit. Or pass up the sickly salads with their naus- eous dopes or dressings and take instead a handful of sticks of car- rot or waters or turnip or slices of crisp cabbage. Any of these is good eating raw, and you will find that when you choose such natural foods for a while instead of the highly seasoned salads, your taste for the enjoyment of the flavor of the food itself increases. This Is much like changing your taste for coffee. Even if you have taken coffee heavily laden with sugar and cream for many years, and believed you actually hated the stuff without cream and sugar, II you will take only the clear black coffee for a week you will learn to like it in that time.
 Psychologists at present agree that some fat may be formed from protein food, though in ordinary circumstances the fat stored in the body is derived mainly from fats and oils in food and to less extent from the carbohydrates.
 Carpivorous animals fatten more readily on fats or oils; herbivorous animals and perhaps man on car bohydrates.
 Tn man or other animals on a mixed diet, although carbohydrate (sugar or starch) is more easily burned to provide energy and warmth for the body, we knew that when an excess of food is taken the carboyhdrate is largely con- verted into fat and deposited in the tissues as surplus fat. It is in the cheap, plentiful, delectable and easy to eat carbohydrates that we carry our eating to excess.
 Just for instance and perhaps to correct some popular misapprehen- sions, let's compare the propor- tions of protein, fat and carbohy- drate materials in some familiar items:
 White
 w P F c M Whole wheat
 Bread 35 9.1 1.6 53.2 IA bread 3S 9.7 0.9 49.7 1.3 So-called gluten
 bread 38.2 9.3 IA 49.S 1.a Wheat 1o.s 1925 IFS 71.95 1.75 Raw
 potato 7s 8 O.1 IS 1.3 Cooked potato-Same as raw, but
 someof water driven off. Crack
 CTS -. Fl 1o.2 s.S 72.4 1.5 carrot ss 1O.2 s.s 72.4 1.5 Raw
 91.5 1,6 o.s 5.6 10
 *-W, water; P, protein: F, fat; c, carbohydrate: M. mineral.
 Note that potato is not nearly so "fattening'' as is bread. That is, potato contains only a little more than one-third as much car bohydrate (starch mainly as does bread and only one-fourth as much as crackers.
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