The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-06-10
NUTRITION AND
LABOR
CHECKING ON YOUR
DIET

| Nt llluNt sttiilll lii''l ti'N l'Sol'lC WHY
complain that the proper food compost
tions demanded by science for good
ntritiOn are too complicated and too
difficult To remember are not entirely
to blame for this attitude. What with
all the alphabetical vitamins, minerals,
proteins, fats, and starches, it is in
deed q task to remember them and
know which is which. Many people
who like to show off throw these terms
around as though they know all about
them. The average person, however,
gets away from these difficulties by
eating daily items of food from the
seven basic food groups recommended
and feels that his health is protected
in every way.
From every point Of view this is the
best policy Those people who eat daily
the basic seven need not worry at all
about the possibility of any weakness
due to bad diet. The basic seven groups
! consist of: bread, flour and cereals;
meat, poultry, fish or eggs: milk prod
ucts potatoes and other fruits and
vegetables: oranges, tomatoes and
grapcfruit green and yellow vege-
fables; butter or fortified margarine.
Many people like, however, to check
up to make sure they get daily all the
proper nutritiona requirements. A
very simple scheme for performing
such q checl<-up is available and is
called the Nita-Min-Go game This
game has to be played for one to see
how easily and simply it works. In Il
way it resembles the bingo game of
numbers. The person places the cards
in front of him, recalls every item
eaten the day before and from Il chart
reads off the vitamin and mineral
values of each helping. The vtamins
and minerals most likely to be lacking
in the diet can be checked i'm this way.
These values add up as you go along
from breakfast to lunch and supper
so that when you are through with a
days meals you can see whether you
are short of vitaminS and minerals,
and if so, which ones and how much.
The game may best be demonstrated
at n union meeting rather than ut Il
lecture Any union may request the
local nutrition committee to send a
representative who is familiar with
the game and who can easily and in
terestingly present it to. the members.
Seldom have fun, personal appeal and
education been better combined than
in this game.
As we all know, the diets of many
American people are still inadequate.
This inadequacy is accounted for not
only on the grounds of shortage of
money, which is a serious factor, but
also on the grounds of bad habits and
ignorance on the part of Il great many
people. We know, for example, that Il
large section of the American pOpula
tion shows Il shortage of calcium and
vitHmin Bl. Invariably when the Vita
Mn-Go game is played at one of the
union meetings The majority of those
present will also show shortages in
their diets of the preceding day.
The value OF the game lies in its
personal appeal When scientists tell
us of the Importance of certain pre-
ventive measures for our own good,
we do not take them seriously but
when we are examined by Il physician
who points out 10 us directly and per-
Sonally the source of certain dangers,
we do take il seriously because of the
direct appeal. This game does the same
thing. 1t does not deal with nutrition
i'm general. Ii is personal and analyses
and diagnoses your own food habits
50 that You are told within il few
minutes where Your weakness lies
II does not end at that, however. The
cards OF the game tell you precisely
what foods YOU must consume I'm larger
quantities or more frequently in order
to repair the dietary weakness which
YOU may have.
This game comes with Il little book
let entitled Nutrition For YOU" by
DR.. Walter wilkins and Miss French
Boyd. This booklet, of which more will
be said in the next inStallment, is an
excellent text 10 help one understand
the lessons of GOOD nutrition in con
nection with the game.
Both booklet and game can be OBJ
tanned in Wholesale numbers by writ
ing 10 the Union Label Trades Depart
ment, Room 2O2, American Federation
of Labor, Washington, ID. G.