The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-15
YOUR
HEALTH
- by
Medical Advisory Beard


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Food Prejudices VS.. Scientific
Dietetics
e. X, Of Chicago, ILL.,, wants to
l lnow how soon after operation
fo- Inflammation of the beginning
of the large bowel, he may return
to work He also asks whether
there is a scientific basis to the
claims of food faddists, naturopaths,
etc.
Having been operated on, your
terminal ileum (the end of the small
intestine, where it joins the large
intestine) is removed, and your
recovery depends on your ability to
pick IN" strength and weight after
the operation. The pickup
should show in four to six weeks
after the operation, at which time
you should be able to return to
fairly normal activity. Your first
question, as to diet and especially
as to the inclusion of meat in the
diet. even though that article of
food is frowned upon by the ma
turopaths and food faddists. brings
up the whole question of food pref
udices VS.. scientific dietetics. All
well persons can eat most any food
providing it is properly prepared,
and all well persons can thrive on
any mixed diet, providing it is well
balanced and that they are not
sensitive to some particular foods.
A balanced diet is one in which
the patient is getting a proper pro-
portion of all the known necessary
food elements such as carbohy~
drates, fats, proteins, vitamins. min
erals and water. Such diet may
include meat or exclude meat, but
If meat is omitted, the protein ele-
ments that it supplies must be ob-
tanned from other foods such as
milk, eggs, cheese, etc.
Since a larger quantity of the
latter foods is needed than of meat
to satisfy the protein requirements
of the body, it is often more con-
venient and more economical to eat
meat. The trouble with meat as a
food is probably that it lends it,
self readily to being prepared in a
highly spiced or seasoned fried or
greasy manner and as such can
lead to various types of stomach
trouble. Also because it is ap-
meat is eaten in uuanti-
ties much greater than balanced
diet requires and brings on ails and
ills that come from overeating. For
that matter, people can become sick
from eating too much whole wheat
bread or drinking too much cod
liver oil. We make no special fuss
about this article of food. except
where its food qualities are speci-
fically not desired in some special
case or disease.
Naturopaths make a fetish out
Of their anti-meat propaganda and
although they are able to cure many
cases of over-eating and un-
balanced diets by their RATIONAL
diets, they have never been able to
prove that their prejudice against
meat Is justified, or that they can
cure or prevent disease by such
diets.