The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-26
THE SICK AND THE SCARED
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THE SICK AND THE SCARED And 50 grew the Bread and Milk club.
 Complaints which physicians have associated with the American custom of stuffing, overeating, eating as Q social afnenity, eating because at aa meal time, eating for strength" eating as . pastime, eating against time, gulping and washing 1t down! and eating when under emotional or, as the uneducated call it, "nerv- ous" tension or strain, eating with- out appetite or with . spurious ap- petite or craving induced by irri- tants such ag mustard, pepper, salt, alcohol: "Liver trouble, "bilioug- ness, "autointoxication", dyspepsia" "indigestion", "gas", fiatulency, ful- ness and dulness after meals, sick headaches, high blood pressure hardening of the arteries, apoplexyl chronic nephritis, heart failure.
 In the incipient or formative stage of one of these very human cofii- plaints tho victim laughs ct doctors and their preachments and halls with delight any and ell comments on the unwisdom of dieting. But there is one picture the laity cans not lightly laugh of - that of the man on the verge of Q stroke of paralysis (apoplexy, cerebral hemor- rhage) or heart failure or uremit coma inanifesting Q hearty appetite and gorging Q meal which imposes . load far in excess of his poor capacity to handle, shortly before the tragedy.
 Tn the Bread and Milk club you soon learn that one cannot expect to maintain health and efficiency by eating heartily and regularly; I iS rather . result or Q sign of health and efiiciency that one eats heartily and regularly. The picture of health iS spare of frame and rather pale as compared with the plethorit caricature popularly conventional ized; this common Aorid picture fl more like the incipient stage of ar- teriosclerosis or the primary stagt of Tnyocardial degeneration.
 No dues, no fines and no fuss. budgets in the Bread and Milk club Members VOW to take nothing fl the way of food ail day Monday oi each week, except bread and milk Bread means any kind of bread crackers, biscuit, whole wheat prod. uct plain wheat, toast, roll. Mil means Certified MIX, tuberculin. tested grade A raw milk, pasteur. ized milk, or just milk. gcaldet (boiled for one minute only, tl make 1t Safe), and in 0 pinch oi an emergency 1t may mean pow. dered milk or evaporated milk bu fresh milk is always preferable if i ig obtainable. The milk may b. cold or hot as you prefer. Ordinar, glassful of milk, with cracker ol bread or wheat biscuit, beginning al early as you wish in the morning and ct regulary intervals of thre, hours all day and up to the las meal just before you turn in q night. The milk must be sippes leisurely and the breadstuff ii1urch ed slowly; never galp the milk hur' riedly and above all never use 1t {, wash down the food you ought t chew.
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