Montana labor news., 1936-11-19
Eat Correctly and
Have Radiant Health

the science of nutrition, the practice
of dietetics, is all false and NONSENSE
cal. Eat what you WILL" we are
comfortingly told; 'let instinct and
appetite guide you"
To what extent, M may wonder,
does the author profit from human
illness and misery that he can so
deliberately ignore facts. Or what
manufacturer of what nutrition SCI
entists call "foodless foods" has paid
him to write the stuff? Or, if he is
sincere, what quirk in his intelli-
gence obscures the light?
It is a matter of record that each
year more people are suffering of
such chronic ailments as kidney
trouble, heart disease, diabetes.
Across the country hospitals are
filled to overlooking with acute and
emergency cases. OF these, only a
small percentage are there because
of accidents, the only legitimate rea-
son for sickness. Is this then a stu
alton so commendable, SO ~laudatory,
so exemplary, that we car overlook
the records of health maintained and
regained through the application of
health rules? Each year thousands
of mothers die needlessly in child
birth and hundreds of babies never
see their first birthday, yet it has
been a good deal through the dis
semination of health knowledge and
nutrition advice that the number is
lower than formerly, though the sit
uation is far from what it could east
ly be. And of those who are not
actually i'll with a distinguishable
ailment, how many are radiantly
buoyantly alive? How many retain
youthfulness beyond the first flush
of youth? Yet prolonged youth,
good health and long life can be
ours.
The average person spends a life
time in p~erverting the natural taste
with unnatural foods, destroying
natural hunger by over-indulgence
and gouging from babyhood on
wards. Can such false instinct and
appetite" take the place of scientific
knowledge or should we exercise
that knowledge in guiding u in
stinct and appetite back into the
right channels?
Contrasted with the instinct and
appetite" school, an increasingly
large number of doctors and in
telligent laymen r awakening tc
the efficacy of diet both to prevent
disease and to cur it. A few years
ago, DR.. G.. w. Theobald, writing ir
Lancet British medical %journal)
said in part, Deficiency of one OF
more vitamins in the diet is recog-
nized to be the cause of pellagra
beri-beri, scurvy, Barlow's disease
Pink's disease, ricketts,, osteomalacia
Keratomalacia, xerophthalmia, den
tai carries and vesical calculus. Other
diseases and morbid conditions such
as pernicious anemia, sprue, rheuma.
tism, atheroma, cyclical vomiting
govt, u~rticaria, and certain menta.
conditions are probably caused Oh
related to imperfect diets. Consti-
pation-the thief of health, the ally
of sepsis, the handmade of toxemias
the friend of insomnia, and the
builder of piles--is in the vast ma.
jority of cases the penalty of in.
correct diet. If infants be included
in our review there can be little
doubt that a very high percentage
of the ill-health and disease in the
world is directly Or indirectly at
tributable to faulty diets. ThC
troubles caused by food deficienciei
may take a long time to develop, 81
that it is difficult to relate caus,
and effect" This quotation is bu
one of scores that could have beer
chosen from the writings of promi
nent doctors and students of health
The subject of the articles tina
will follow will be to acquaint yol
not only with the po~tentialities TO
greater health and prolonged you'll
and that beauty that can only de
rive from a vigorous, clean body
they will seek, in simple, under
standable language to make familia
the rules of health and the under
lying science upon which has beel
built the knowledge of how to main
tain health; they will seek to Civ
you the clues with which to under
stand your body and how to care 70
it with intelligence.
NlcIluS anu Iteclpe
Lunch: Thick vegetable SOUP
sandwiches of whole wheat breac
egg yolks and minced green pepper
grapes.
Dinner. Fruit cup, roast pork wit
apple stuffing; diced turnips, cauli
flower salad, cereal coffee.
Cauliflower Salad
Cut small head of raw cauliflowe
into fine dice; mix with grated car
riots and mayonnaise dressing. Hea
on bed of endive or lettuce or finel
grated new cabbage.
Mildred Oldenburg.
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