The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1936-06-04

whipped cream inside
there would be about 500 calories in
the two eclairs. That is 800 calories
which was not even a lunch for this
overweight man. The total number Of
calories needed by this man was about
2,400 a day.
Now what should the average office
wOrker-man or woman-eat for lunch
of the food available at the various
restaurants or cafeterias?
It Is taken for granted that these Of
fee workers have to use their brains
during the afternoon, and too much
food would make them sleepy for an
hour or more after lunch; big" meal
should therefore not be eaten.
Weakness at 4 p. M.
However, as office workers they have
likely taken a light breakfast and are
hungry by the time the usual lunch
hour-12 80 to :30-arrives. If they
don't eat fair lunch, then at four
o'clock in the afternoon they feel weak.
Some take cup Of tea. a banana, an
orange, or a chocolate bar to carry
them along till the evening meal, but
the majority get along without any
food between lunch and the evening
meal.
This means that many are weak and
tired when they eat the evening meal
and digestion is poor or slow. Others
eat such big meal that they are
sunk" for the evening and sit around
and go to bed.
Now if a fair-sized breakfast is eat
en- light lunch is quite in order, but
If only a roll or slice of bread and tea
or coffee Is taken, good lunch is nee
essary to maintain strength, prevent
the "all gone" feeling about 4 p. M,
and have the proper appetite for, and
active digestion of, the evening meal.
It would be wise therefore If a sand
witch containing meat or egg were eat
en- at noon, as this protein form of food
is readily digested, burns itself and
other foods up rapidly to give heat and
energy, and is natures greatest build
er or repairer of worn tissues.
If, In addition to the meat or egg
sandwich, raw fruit were eaten one
day and raw vegetable together with
milk, water, tea or coffee, the next day,
It should be the ideal lunch for the av-
erage office worker who is neither too
fat nor too thin.
Diet for Underweight
What about lunch for the under
weight office worker?
In addition to the meat or egg sand
WITCH, the underweight Office worker
should have a vegetable salad daily
with mayonnnaise dressing, slice of
bread and butter, and glass of milk.
cocoa, tea or coffee In fact these un.
derweights might do well to take
glass of milk or banana or piece of
candy at p. m. also.
As the overweight Office worker al
ways has a good appetite, a "filling"
lunch, poor in calories or heat units,
should be taken. In addition to the
meat or egg sandwich (the meat or egg
might be taken In another form Of
course) there should be some "clear"
soup and large helping Of green veg
etables such as lettuce, cabbage, as
paragus, radishes, celery, using vinegar
instead of an oil or rich dressing. A
little fruit might finish the repast. The
large helping Of green vegetables gives
satisfied" feeling and is Of course
very low in heat units.
For the average office worker the
cafeteria or restaurant lunch should be
built around meat or egg sandwich
with fruit one day and vegetables the
next; for the thin and fat ones the
above additions or suggestions might
well be followed.
Removing Thyroid Gland
When the thyroid gland In the neck
manufactures so much juice that 1t
makes the heart beat too rapidly all
the time, surgeons now remove this
gland entirely so as to slow down the
heart rate and save the patients life.
| While not considered as dangerous
an operation as 1t was a few years ago,
II nevertheless has the dangers which
attend any operation, injury to impor-
tant nerves In the throat, infection,
bleeding, and suffocation.
DR.. G. n. Pratt. New York, reports
10 cases of heart disease in which this
operation was performed to save the
patient from death.