The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-16
HONESTLY TT IS THE CRI

| HONESTLY HI IS HE CfCA
 Ever since I launched my one man campaign to stop intelligent, well-meaning but thoughtless peo- pie from calling indispositions, pass ing discomforts or illnesses "cold'' and persuade them to call it "cri' until the nature of the trouble be- comes manifest, have had to en- dure a good deal of srmartcracking by the other sort of people. The burden of their rhetorical questions or arguments is, What difference does it make what you call it? A cold by any other name is just as bad"
 Cri (kree) is any common respira- tory infection. It is at least as sig nifcant and as honest 8 name as any other, for the indisposition or ailment, until your or your doctor can find out just what is the mat ter. Meanwhile innocent persons who may come within your range have fair warning, so if the trouble proves to have been diphtheria, measles, infantile paralysis, menin- gitis, influenza, septic sore throat or scarlet fever, at least they can't say you deliberately infected them.
 On the other hand, if you disarm or attempt to disarm all wf-o come within your range, by pretending your trouble is "juSt cold" and a few days later many of your victims are down with a serious illness con- tracted from you, why, you're a pretty mean specimen, aren't you? Don't answer, I'll tell the world you are.
 Proprietors or executives of business places, shops, factories, practicing physicians and their office assistants, dentists and their technicians or office assistants, teachers, students, chefs and walters, and numerous other citizens apparently believe they are exempt from living the golden rule of hygiene and that they may infect people with whatever they happen to have with impunity. At least such offenders still have the cheek to remain at work and expose people indiscriminately to respiratory infection without fear of being sued for damages or even cen- sured for criminal conduct.
 The vital thing which many edu- cated people do not know is that this moisture spray, given of in coughing and sneezing and effec- lively stopped if the individual holds hand or handkerchief over nose and mouth when he has to cough or 'Sneeze, is likewise given of in or dinary conversation and not even guarded against, as rule, for the very reason that people do not know the facts about it.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Tomatoes
 Is there any harm in eating large amount of tomatoes every day or nearly every day? Is there an acid in tomatoes thta causes rheu- matism, acidosis or something?- (GL,B.). f
 Answer-No. Hindhede studied men whose diet consisted exclu- sively of Il pounds of tomatoes, about 1 1-2 pounds of Graham bread and 3 1-2 ounces of margrain daily. He found no evidence of any undesirable effect. Except in occa- sional instances of allergy, the lib- eral use of fresh or canned tomato or tomato juice in the diet is health ful. For one thing is supplies vita min c, in which the diet in the winter months is likely to be poor.
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 I tried tablets to build up my resistance to what I call "head colds" Each tablet contains 5000 units of vitamin A and $50 units of vitamin D. To my surprise they cured my night blindness. Before took these tablets driving at night was nightmare, because I couldn't see against the glare. I now drive comfortably and safely at night GM).
 Answer-The testimonial has the fatal fault of most testimony in re- spect to the influence of vitamin A on night blindness. How do you know is was not the vitamin D in the tablets that improved your abil- ity to see in poor light? Anyway 5000 units of vitamin A may be had in from one-half ounce to an ounce of dandelion greens, escarole, kale, broccoli, dried aprocots, liver, egg yolk, spinach, butter, etc--so many every day foods are rich with vita- min A that it is difficult to imagine a shortage of this vitamin. Milk, - .