THE NORMAL DIET THERE are seven basic essentials of a normal diet: 1. Enough nutrition. 2. Enough protein. 3. Proper mineral salts. 4. Fresh life-giving substances—called Vitamins. 5. Enough water. 6. The food must be reasonably free from bacterial contamination, especially certain disease-producing bacteria and parasites. 7. There should be bulk or roughage. Let us […]

We can take our choice about a lot of things, but I really must insist on a glass of milk some time during the day. It doesn’t make any difference whether at breakfast, lunch or dinner, In the case of children a glass is best at each meal. For adults one glass is enough. “The […]

For the latter two meals of the day lunch and dinner—our natural diet—that is, the normal diet that average people eat will consist of soup, meat, one or two vegetables, a salad and a dessert. For many people lunch and dinner are more or less close duplications of each other. For others lunch is a […]

We are going to inquire into the virtues of the natural foods an ordinary person would naturally eat in the course of the day. We want to know what place they have in contributing to our health and bodily economy. We want to know how they act, how they are digested. To investigate what harm […]

In our natural diet we have in one day’s ration some fruit supplying us with quick energy in the form of sugar, with buffer substances to keep the body reaction neutral, with Vitamin C: some cereal to give us energy somewhat more slowly absorbed, and Vitamins A and B: milk with its minerals and vitamins: […]

That old falsity about two living as cheaply as one has a little grain of truth in it. Two in one family can live cheaper than two single people apart. In four food plans, all having an adequate diet, but increasing in efficiency as the price increases, it will be noticed that the estimated cost […]

What a is depends a good deal on circumstances. Have you a hard afternoon ahead? Or are you going to the ball game? Are you inclined to have a headache if you work too hard? Are you inclined to be costive? Are you underweight? And finally, are you hungry? If there is work to be […]

The gallbladder is an ideal place for the formation of stones—a sluggish pool, a backwater from the main channel of bile flow. Thus the bile is held stationary in one spot and the salts in solution in the bile are liable, under these conditions, to crystallize, with the formation of gallstones. As in the case […]

It is curious and amusing to look at the history of some of our foods today. The tomato was at first supposed to be poisonous. I can remember when the little wild tomatoes (about the size of a small plum) were pointed out to us children to avoid. If we ate one it would kill […]

Not many people know that hunger is a state of the blood. It takes some time—several hours—before food digests, assimilates, and enters the blood stream, when the feeling of hunger at once disappears. That is why it is considered wise to stop eating while the appetite is not entirely satisfied. The difference between hunger and […]