The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1956-07-13

The dietary life people adequately supplied with food
has nged out into amazing detail since the days OF the simple
Spats when the most important distinction was between fat
and lean Up to the current century, and into too was
usual to hear references to foods faenng and foods
tenng But have entered the scientific and such cce
classifcations behind us. @
We rate foods now terms of Right the start
of this caoe business, there sort of initiation that
heaunits of comebe Why do not have kind of table
dietary ogarahms the numbers into handy packes
in rasins contains just hundred
Say for instance that the simple has 900 caores
this sheer suppotion by dull ymen there may be 5000
for all know Well why cannot say instead OF soo7
Handler, surely.
it is frightening to realize picks slice of bakers
breadabby fshbey white and dampthat the thing prob
rated only And when the victim of regimen
he allowed only 1900 caories day. not
inclined to extend sympathy 1900 of anything sounds like
gracious plenty single day. the sufferer could
he limited to 10 should be all him with commsera-
ton and coincidence
Well, we must take things find them. One lick Of
fashioned oypop probably contains 500 calories The
who holiday and picnic fare with unfag
gng throughout velong day probably packed
with millions calories by bedtime None the for 1t
either But caories do not enter the penumbra OF
social consciousness until the careree days of childhood have
departed When youth begins to be concerned about the
weather what he amount that ISL he has
up he has achieved aduhood he has to the of wis
dom and worry.
What charming sign of enlightenment education and cu
ture hear buxom matching caorie chartsi
discussing t substution of caorc monstrosity
for another Indeed the mark civilization the ability to
caores discussion The may
turn his attention to things he ngests the daily ration;
he find stones books in the running brooks
tongues in trees and good in everything But the civilized
must focus caore envoning fearful
extra and unscheduled mouthfu.
And calores alone enough for discussion There
extension the matter protens carbo-
hydates And protens be talked of in amino
acids which the animal organism cannot synhesize from
nrogenou materials There's table talk for Bright
as OF uNf
such things he named becometh modern deter
They fit only for the deesable of Mrs Jack Spra
No with thought for this everhreaening equatorial
panson will have anything to do with carbohydrates.
Galleries. proens carbohydrates The list not yet COM
plete We have advance the wondrous world
vamins vitamine little of cereal.
box luminous with bright pictures of ttering tigers and kit
ensh kangaroos weight ounce Would you suppose
that this single of faky felcies could vamns and
minerals of tremendous Importance for human survival? We
some of the wonders here imprisoned Niacn
vitamin B1 Phosphorus Riboavn Why Ribofavin
alone is worth the of the package These things
by which men live Grandpa never had it SO good He lust had
h;g howl of roi,ed oats Gov hroaLt.st " rS - a. Sd S | ~
Riboavn Niacin No wonder gentleman passed
timely away aged 93 Vtamins might have helped him to
a hearty old
We Edwin Arlington Robinson to tell us about
the Richard Cory of the Vibrant Vamns Lacking the let's
have dash at it ourselves:
When William Kaory sat down to eat
We ordinary people of the town
Would watch him take his vitamins discreet
And Danish carbohydrates with frown
And he slim. and TRIM and firm of jaw,
Proportoned we'll and manifestly fit;
He took his food by scientific law,
The ustexactlyprop kinds of it.
And he would talk and talk with zest and speed
Of riboflavin, niacin, and SUCH
So long people listened, and indeed
After they ceased to listen very much.
We muddled on, vitalized our clay
With vitaminc Inconsistencies
And William Kalory, day.
Ate dinner, and fell dead with heart disease