The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-23

that a raw egg Is more easily di- gested or more nutritious in some way than cooked egg, and the companion fancy that a soft boiled or poached egg is easier to digest and more suitable for an invaldi or even a healthy person than a hard boiled, fried or scrambled egg.
 A great many people who purport to be intelligent imagnie very rare. undercooked meat, especially beef, is more digeStible and more nu- tritous or even Strengthening" than the same meat would be well done.
 Not a few old timers still cherish the fancy that beef juice, beef soup, beef extract, beef broth or bouilion is qunite nourishing.
 Then there is the common and persistent idea that cheese Is "bind- ing" and "indigestible.
 All of these beliefs are wrong.
 If milk and fish or shellfish and ice cream appeal to your taste they are as digestible taken together as either item is if taken separately.
 By actual study of the digestive process it has been found that Q cooked egg digests rather more promptly and completely than a raw egg does. And an egg boiled solid is better prepared for diges- ton than is an egg boiled somt. If one prefers fried egg to egg cooked in other avs, that is the best way to take the egg. The taboo against fried food" is merly 6 bit of hokum used by charlatans to im- press wiseacre customers. Fried food, calory for calory, is quite as readily digestible as is food cooked in any other way.
 The rare meat and beef broth or beef juice delusion is another old time theory. We know now that you simply can't get the onurish- ment of beef in liquid form. The soup, broth, juice or other liquid obtained from beef contains only the salt Common table salt) and the extractives which have flavor but are of little or no value as food. The soup or fluid is a stimu- lant but not 8 food and will not sustain TO nourish a feeble person.
 Not only is cheese, any kind you like. not binding, but no wholesome food you can name is binding. All food is more or less laxative. some things more, others less active in that way. Any and every kind sof cheese is deserving fo the name Of health food, and NOT only that, but it is one of the most economical foods any one can buy.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Going Stale
 Son, 18, 69 inches tall, 145 pounds, freshman in college, spends four hours in travel to and from col- lege each school day, has two to three hours home work each night, and trains each day after class as member of track team. He has lost 12 pounds in three months. I'M E Al -sa.s.s. sr-.4 r-ast.s. -s.s X
 Answer-probably he is going stale." To exatcing a schedule. Is there no medical supervision of the training in the college? This boy badly needs good medical advice.
 Chemical Preservative ,
 Is 1t harmful to eat daily oleo. margarine containing 1-10th of l per cent benzoate of soda Will 1t cause the finger joints to swell? (E. H. P)
 Answer-Personally I'd prefer to go undernourished rather than take any food containing 6 chemical preservative. But so far as I know. this preservative does not cause the finger joints to swell. Good oleo- margarine neither requires nor con- tains a preservative.
 Lemon Is Food
 Have been taking juice of lemon in glass of water every morning be- fore breakfast, and feel fine, but several people have told me 1t is dangerous, as 1t forms too much acid in my system. (Mrs. W. To
 Answer-It is perfectly healthful if you like 1t, and it forms no acid, on the contrary 1t tends to increase alkalinity.
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