WHEN you were very, very young you ate for three reasons first, because you were “hungry” and had dreadful gnawing pains in the region of your stomach; second, because the taste and smell of whatever you were eating was exceedingly pleasant; and third, because the grown-ups simply made you. When you grew a little older, […]

The nutritive parts of the food we eat are called the five food elements. They are the proteins, carbohydrates, fats, mineral matter and water. Recently a sixth element has been added the vitamins. However, as they are not used directly for energy or for tissue-building. Protein is the element of which our tissues are made. […]

HOW THIS BODY OF OURS FUNCTIONS, TOLD SIMPLY If we take a human body and eliminate from it, theoretically, such things as the processes of thought and such things as the functions of reproduction of its kind, and growth and replacement of waste, and repair of wounds—if, in short, we eliminate the processes the nature […]

“Everybody is talking about a reducing diet and nobody talks about what I need, which is a fattening diet,” growled my cynical and emaciated friend the other evening. As in the case of diets for overweight, which we discussed yesterday, the only way in which a diet for underweight need differ from a normal diet […]

A short time ago two Pittsburgh physicians—Doctors Evans and Strang—gave to the medical world- a new method for the treatment of overweight, which has caused widespread interest and comment. It is of importance, therefore, that they have just published a method for the treatment of underweight. Why are some people chronically underweight? Of course, many […]

If dietetics is such an exact science why isn’t it possible, you ask, to keep people on a good average as to body weight? Of all dietetic questions, the two which interest most people are: “How can a skinny person like me, get plump?” and “How can a fatty like me, get thin?” There are […]

The number of letters and inquiries received on the subject of the skin eruption named psoriasis is equal to, if not greater than about any other single disease. There are two reasons for this—one is that the disease is very chronic and prone to recurrence (the patient, there-fore, is constantly reminded of its existence), and […]

GENERAL PRINCIPLES Overweight imposes burdens of many kinds. It is unnecessary to do more than list them: lengthy comment would be as superfluous to the victim of overweight as his extra fat. 1. Appearance.—A fat person is not a pretty sight. 2. Comfort.—A fat person cannot lean over to tie shoes, go upstairs, run for […]

Fruits are universally the favorite food of summer. And justly so, because they have many advantages, not only as hot weather foods, but as adjuncts all year round. Their hot weather value is due to their high water content and low protein and fat. The low protein and fat makes them, as the phrase is, […]

How COFFEE WAS DISCOVERED AND BEST WAY TO MAKE IT The story goes that an Oriental goat herder noticed a strange hilarity in his goats on their return home every evening. To discover the cause of this he watched them and found that they devoured the berries of a plant which grew by the side […]