The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-16

sugar ration. Say you take two
level teaspoonfuls or two ordinary
Jumps in your tea or coffee daily,
and three or four more spoonfuls
in your cake, cookie, ice cream or
lady finger, but of candy. bite of
pie, dab of pudding, thimbleful OF
sherbet or your favorite fountain
beverage. Five teaspoonfuls in all
instead of the ration the govern.
ment allots you, approximately s
ounces. This would yield $50 call
cries daily-so much velvet, over
and above your ordinary food.
Now if my arithmetic is not as
terrible as usual $50 calories more
or less would be SGD more or less
than an ordinary maintenance diet
for an adult doing light work.
You'll never know till you try and
try earnestly getting along without
sugar ration for a month, how
much control over body weight this
seemingly insignificant item has.
Yes, yes, SO do /. In fact / don't
want any coffee at all If I can't
have it sweetened. But wee tablet
of saccharin (saccharine to you,
old timer), tablet containing
from Ia to i-2 grain, sweetens a
cup Of coffee as satisfactorily as a
lump or spoonful or more of sugar.
Saccharin in just the right guam
| tity, gives a sweet taste that leaves
| nothing to be desired. But get a
wee bit too much saccharin in IL
and. it tastes bitter. Have to ex-
pertinent till you find precisely the
right amount to suit your taste.
The use of saccharin in this way
is harmless in any quantity up to
5 grains a day.
Saccharin, benzosulphinide, is 500
times as sweet as cane sugar, is not
a food and therefore serves at a
substitute for sweetening tea, cof-
fee or cocoa, for diabetic or obese
subjects.
Just another little suggestion for
the stout boys and girls who, like
the king who runs this column,
want to stay young and slender so
long as they don't have to give up
tea or coffee. And in case any
body is in earnest about it, here
is still another suggestion; Many
overweight individuals who have
included an optimal vitamin ration
| in their moderate reduction regi-
linen find that they become less sus-
ceptible to that abnormal craving
for sweets. AS some of them ex-
press 1t, their stomach must be
| shrinking, for they are satified
with less food than they formerly
required.
Sugar.
Is beet sugar rs good as cane
sugar? Will brown sugar go as far
as cane sugar? Price OF all is the
same. &c. e. NJ
Answer-Yes.
Copper.
When I tried to buy four ounces
of iron ammonium citrate and one
grain OF copper sulphate the drug
gist refused to sell the copper sul-
plate, explaining that IL Is p0ison-
GUS and he could not be respon-
sible II anything happened
Mrs A. K.)
Answer - Fiddlesticks to your
druggist Good druggists every
where sell these harmless ingre-
dents, or dissolve them in the pint
Of water for you. Four ounces OF
iron -ammonium citrate and one
grain OF copper sulphate dissolved
In q pint of water-teaspoo at
ter food three times a day for q
month or two, q good home made
tonic for simple anemia.
Hercditys
Ny husband WINS born with a
dead die In his right eye. MY right
eye was injured when was > child
and / cannot sec out OF t. VIII
this affect the eyes Of our chill
drcn? lAlrs Il. E.)
Answer-I do not understand
what you mean by dead dc" a
defect OF any KIND present &C birth
my be hereditary. but the injury TO
your eye would not afkecs your
chlIdren's inheritance.
] (Cepyrieht 1895. John y. pIIie co.l