The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-06-24
NUTRITION AND
LABOR
CHECKING ON YOUR
DIET

The booklet, NUTRITION FOR
YOU, which comes with the Nita-Min-
Go game, gives the type of nutrition
information that has been very urgent
ly needed blythe average person. There
is Il certain amount of information
that is essential to intelligent living
and which can be direct and unpre-
! tentiOuS.
We all know that there are many
people who derive special pleasure out
of showing off If they cannot brag
about their ancestors, they like to
brag about themselves or their rea-
tives. If these topics fail them, then
they like to brag about their knowl-
edge. Often they will chose the kind
Of information which other people are
not familiar with and make IL special
point of parading it, because they
think that raises them many pegs in
the estimation of other people. In ac-
tral practice the opposite is true
People only get annoyed and consider
the person pest. 1t is true that many
people do that with regard to food
information. Courses i'm nutrition have
become popular and patriotic - and
many women have iocked to them,
which is, of course, as. it should be.
I:llt what does strike some of us as
strange is that some of these people
begin to display their knowledge by
talking about StarcheS, prOteins and
Vilamins as though they knew them
intimately. Often the friends of people
who act chat way get so irritaled that
they don't like TO have anything to do
with nutrition. But this is merely
cutting Of. the nosexgto;spite ones face.
The truth of the matter Is that some
people will act foOlishly no matter
what But their acting foolishly about
knowledge of food need not blind US
to the value of such knowledge applied
in simple, practical and common
SENSE way.
II is that which the booklet, NUTRI-
ITIDN FOR YOU, aims to do. In II
short lessons, each of which can be
learned in from five to ten minutes,
just about everything which is of prac-
| Il'dl NulI' lb lH' bN'ltS' Ilhlll vi
woman is Sumnla lZed in simple every
day language, without high sounding
words and fancy phrases. The first
lesson discusses danger signals and
tells you how to suspect, by the way
you feel, that something may be
wrong with your diet The second les
son deals with the role of food in the
woll-bcing of your body. The third les
son considers yilaminS, not in IL pom
pous way but from the viewpoint ot
foods. 1t tells you which foods have
vitamin A, which have yitamin Bl and
50 forth. 1t tells YOU about the fruits
| and fruit juices. The next five lessons
deal with the different kinds of foods
and lesson nine considers eating habits
, lunches, dinners, and other meals. Les
son ten tells about losing weight and
gaining weight, when and how to do
either Lesson eleven talks about con
= Sumcr protection In food buying and
how to gct the most oul of your dollar.
The hast two lessons have some good
tips about special foods and are more
or less Il review Of what the reader
has learned. At the end of the book
: let there is given simple test with
which The reader can check on his
eating habits and see what foods are
lacking in his diet. BY use of NlTItl-
TlDN FOR YOU, together with the
Vita -Min-Go game, any individual who
knows how to read can easily acquire
Il basic amount of Information about
foods.
For example, let us assume that be-
cause of transportation difficulties
oranges and grapefruit fail to reach
II community for Il week or so and
there are no canned juices either. Now
cilruS fruits are very valuable in oul
diet, aS everyone knows, mainly be
cause of the vitamin { they supply
vitamin & very we'll, 50 we need to con.
Slne II certain amount every day
NUTRITION FOR NOl' tells us tha,
in the absence of citrus fruit one can
get its ma jor contribution, which j.
yitamin &, from strawberries, broC
coli tomatoes, turnipS, cabbage, greer
pepper, watermelon, and many other
raw fruits and vegetables This list in
cludcS vegetables and fruits which are
available all year round and som,
, which are seasonal In this manner
people can always get II good supply
of tn" Nitamn & lhey need regardless
of upSctS