Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 4Christian, Eugene
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Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 4
Christian, Eugene
Diet; Diet in disease; Food
Peaches, with sugar and cream
An ear of tender corn
A glass of milk
DINNER
A green salad, with nuts
Two fresh vegetables--peas, beans, or corn
Ice-cream or ices--fruit flavor (A melon or a
cantaloup, before retiring)
Two glasses of cool water should be drunk at each of these meals.
HOT WEATHER MENU
_FOR THE PREVENTION OF SUNSTROKE AND HEAT PROSTRATION_
BREAKFAST
Cantaloup
Peaches, or a small portion of berries, without
sugar
One or two extremely ripe bananas, eaten with
nuts, cream, and raisins
Fresh milk
LUNCHEON
A green salad or spinach
Any fresh vegetable, such as squash, onions,
turnips, beets, carrots, or parsnips
A new baked potato--eat skins and all
DINNER
A green salad, with tomatoes and nuts
Two vegetables--corn, peas, beans, or asparagus
(The vegetables to be cooked in a casserole
dish)
A potato--prepared choice
One very ripe banana, with figs and either cream
cheese or fresh cream
SUGGESTIONS FOR THE PREVENTION OF SUNSTROKE
From one to two glasses of cool water should be drunk at each of these
meals.
Mastication of every atom should be complete.
Hurried eating is the most prolific cause of fermentation. Fermentation
is the cause of intestinal gas, sour stomach and indigestion, also
constipation and torpid liver.
Avoid stimulants such as tea, coffee, tobacco, beer, or liquors. These
things excite heart activity, which causes excessive body-heat.
Avoid sweets, especially sweet soda-fountain drinks. Sugar is composed
largely of carbon, and carbon is one of Nature's greatest heat-makers.
Confine the diet largely to semi-acid fruits, fresh vegetables, green
salads, milk, eggs, nuts, and a very limited quantity of bread and
cereal products.
Cereal starch is the most difficult of all carbohydrate matter to
digest.
Drink an abundance of pure water at meals and between meals.
Avoid all mixed-up, sweetened and charged water. There is nothing
better than plain spring or distilled water.
Do not eat too many things at the same meal. Three or four articles are
sufficient.
Avoid meat of all kinds, and eat a very limited quantity of fats.
By all means do not overeat. Every atom of food taken into the body
that is not used must be cast off at a tremendous expense of energy.
The casting-off process is what we call dis-ease.
Every housewife and mother should know enough about the chemistry of
food to avoid serving at the same meal things which are chemically
inharmonious.
If these simple laws were observed, sunstrokes and heat prostrations
would be almost unheard of.
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