Evening star., 1945-11-22
This and That
BIZ Charles E. Trdce1DeH.

This is good time to start watching
your diet, in order to prevent the an
nual Christmas sick spell.
People usually begin stuf1ing up at
Thanksgiving time.
From then on with all too many of us
1t is eat, eat, eat, until that final mag
nificent Christmas feast puts us to bed.
So the time to do something about 1t
is now, before the doctor comes. Why
wait for that good, busy, harassed man
to put us to rights in December, when
we probably can do 1t for ourselves now?
The first thing to do is to make up
ones mind that all this is true. If one
does not think so, let him go read an
editorial.
The second thing to do is to take stock
Of what one is eating and see If it isn't
too much.
Just what connection there is between
overeating and the common cold, for
instance, is a matter for any ones
speculation. There is an increasing
number of persons who feel that such a
connection exists.
1t is not at all necessary to be food
crank to believe so. All that is required
is little honest observation.
Most carbohydrate foods are In the
dangerous class in this respect. Some
persons even know when they are going
to catch cold by a sudden craving for
bread, macaroni or ice cream.
just why nature tries to compel them
to eat just what they shouldn't is a
question. Most people phrase a certain
and Starve fever" They believe that
hi fov,{ fe 6oin
ton for eating all they want when they
want 1t.
There is little doubt that this wisdom
has been corrupted by the simple device
Of leaving out comma.
Feed cold, starve fever" That is
the correct saying.
The meaning is, Of course, that If you
feed cold, ultimately you will have to
starve a fever.
This jibes with science and popular
observation. Medical men have some
wise words for it, but the layman will
put it this way, that eating too much
food, especially Of certain types, results
in a piling up effect which finally gets
him down.
He may do something, therefore, to
help himself beforehand, by refusing to
stuff.
This is big order, undoubtedly. It
requires will power, and that is some
thing which isn't as fashionable today
as once upon time. Even little chill
dren are refused early training of their
will power by the cult of mo repres-
sion.'
Take vanilla ice cream, for instance.
After three years Of none of it, it sud-
denly comes back into the market In
great gobs. Dealers have gallons Of it
and the temptation of any honest Amer
ican is. to eat 1t by the quart But he
should recall the plain fact that ice
cream is basically a carbohydrate food
of high calorif1c value.
Candy, cake and pie are also foods to
be eaten sensibly, which means not too
much. This mot too much" depends
solely upon the individual. It Is COM
mon experience that persons hovering
around the age Of SO cannot digest
bread the way they used to. II they
persist in trying they will simply have
indigestion every day without realizing
what causes 1t. And they may end UP
with a bad cold around Christmas time
and wonder how on earth they caught 1t.
There are those who would say that
they did not catch it at all, but built it
up through faulty eating habits, mainly
on the OVERRIDING side. If they could
catch sight Of all those loaves Of bread,
gallons Of ice cream, plates Of macarorii,
pieces of cake, plates Of pies and pounds
of candy which they had consumed be-
tween colds, they might not wonder so
much about the cause of their later
miaefv If the old saving is tr,te fhof
man Is either a fool or his own physi-
clan by the time he is 80, there must be
q great many more fools among us than
most OF us like to, think That Is not
such q shocking conclusion, perhaps, III
view OF the atomic bomb. For All our
protestations OF superiority and wisdom.
we are still animals In the slime ck
early creation, In comparison with our
dreams Of peace and good viii to man
especially to man.