The Omaha guide., 1936-09-19
MRS.
SAYS
FOOD Is YOUR FORTUNE

the food you eat.
The Japanese government has
increased the height of its young
er generation two inches by diet
Improvement, adding green vege-
tables and cod liver oil to child
ren's diet.) Curves and complex
ion are so obviously related to
food that the best beauty special
lists always stress diet. Hollywood
stars largely depend on California
fruit juices to keep them fit. A re-
cent edition of the Literary Di-
gest printed a diet which mt only
insured teeth from decay but cur
ed rheumatic heart in children. 1t
was recently discovered that dia-
betes responded as favorable to in
creased Vitamin "B" in the diet as
to insulin "a very expensive gland
ular extract which only the rich
can afford.) Almost everyone now
knows that tuberculosis is a dis
ease of nutritional deficiency. Ac-
cording to our bio-chemists all of
our lung and respiratory ailments
can be controlled by diet. Vita
minis "a" and I'D" are always de-
ficient in such cases. According to
a phamphlet issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture on Vitamins,
mary diseases of the eyes respond
almost like magic to proper diet,
especially to an increased intake
of fat soluable "a" found in but
ter, cream, liver, egg yolk). Liver
and stomach are perhaps closest
of all organs to the food we eat.
For instance, it is a well known
most favorably to the half and half
cream and milk diet. And that's
just a few of the direct connec-
tions between what you eat and
how you look and feel.
Follow the diet a little further
and YOU can soc how your whole
life is shaped by your menu. With
the proper nutrition there would
not be $4,000 hospital patents, and
millions sick at home, each day.
Doctors. except a few of the top
notchers who keep abreast of sci
ence, have a way of sneering at
diet. But a study of bio-chemistry
would be of invaluable service to
their patients and help to make
their fortunes besides. Physicians
like the Mayo Brothers, and Sir
Lane of England and even the
present head of the American Med
ical Association, have come out I'M
reservedly for diet as a check to
disease.
And what we're just ~rediscover-
ing, the Egyptians knew four thou
sand years ago. Herodotus, the
first Greek historian, says: "The
Egyptians fast three days each
month since it is their belief that
all humor of the bory are the re-
suit of the food they eat"
Truths in Diet
Some of the dietic half-truths
for feeding children which our
most old-fashioned doctors now ad-
vocate are: Spinach each day for
iron, a quart of milk (pastuerized)
daily for bone material; strained
vegetables; juice of one orange
with the morning cereal and a
spoonful of cod liver oil. A half
truth is better than complete ig-
norance and always more accept
able 0 those who prefer not to
think for themselves, but it is a
far cry from the whole truth. The
menu above is obviously much bet
ter than one of peas, fat-back, and
corn meal mush, but it is mt at all
adequate.
Spinach for instance. It is not
enough to say eat spinach daily.
This must be qualified by saying
that spinach should be wilted, not
cooked, never served as a leftover
or eaten from cans. Otherwise, the
vitamins and iron you seek will
have vanished. Besides, there are
many more pleasing foods with as
much iron as spinach. If your child
doesn't like spinach you can give
it any other dark green leafy veg
etable. You can, in fact, give it
liver, kidney or heart and get iron
in a more concentrated form. Iron
is the substance which enriches
the blood and enables the body to
heal rapidly.
Some children cannot drink a
quart of milk daily and have room
for other foods equally valuable.
Cows milk as a perfect food has
been disproved. Pastuerizing milk,
though necessary when it comes
from inferior cows or is handled
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