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Show WHA T TO EAT and WHY (2. -fouAton (foudlll Recount! The Miracle oi Milk Noted Food Authority Explains Why It Is the Cheapest and Most Nearly Perfect Food By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS 8 East 39th Street. New Vork City. OF ALL the foods known and used by man, milk is supreme. su-preme. It is a miracle of perfection a veritable elixir of life. Milk has powers possessed by no other food. It builds sturdy bodies for infants; strong bones and sound teeth for growing children; helps to maintain vitality in adults; and to delay the onset of old age. It contains a greater assortment assort-ment of nutritive materials than any other single food. It is the foundation of every balanced diet. Considering the services it performs for mankind from infancy in-fancy to old age it is the cheapest cheap-est food tve have. Milk is so many-sided that I always al-ways think of it as the Benjamin $ Send for This Free Chart Showing which Food are ACID ALKALINE One of the principles in planning plan-ning balanced diet is to include in-clude at least enough alkaline, or base-forming foods, to balance bal-ance the acid-forming foods. To help yon distinguish the foods that belong in each group, C Houston Goudiss offers to send a free chart listing list-ing the principal acid-ash and alkaline-ash foods. Address C Houston Goudiss, 6 East 39th Street, New York. City. LillB JIM Franklin of foods. It is a vast treasure treas-ure chest of nutrients nutri-ents the most complex product of nature's chemistry. It contains nearly every chemical element el-ement of the body itself, in proportions propor-tions adapted for quick and easy assimilation. as-similation. Milk fulfills six essential requirements of a perfect per-fect diet. First; It supplies carbohydrate and fat for heat and energy. Second: It furnishes protein that is suitable for building new tissues and repairing the millions of cells that are worn out daily. Third: It yields minerals which build bones and teeth and regulate the subtle internal processes of the body. Fourth: It contains every known vitamin in some degree and is abundantly supplied with the vitamins vita-mins that are necessary to growth, to the smooth running of the body machine, and to the prevention pre-vention of many types of infection. infec-tion. Fifth: It contains water, to act a3 a solvent, a carrier and regulator. regu-lator. Sixth: It is easily digestible. This brief summary helps to explain ex-plain the unique place of milk in nutrition. Think of it! In one food, we find protein of the highest high-est type; carbohydrate and fat; all the vitamins; every one of the minerals demanded by the human body; water; and an easy digestibility digesti-bility that readily changes these ingredients into vigorous life. -- The Biggest Food Bargain We occasionally hear the charge that milk is too high in price that it is a luxury to afford enough of this master food to supply a quart daily for every child at least a pint for each adult. That is ridiculous! ridic-ulous! The cost of milk is much cheaper than the cost of illness. And milk is not a luxury, but an indispensable necessity. I contend that no homemaker can afford not to buy milk in adequate ade-quate amounts that if she desires health, efficiency and longevity for her family, she must provide a sufficient amount of milk before be-fore she purchases any other food. -- A Food for Children and Adults Humankind needs milk as the flowers in the garden and the grains in the field need the blessing bless-ing of rain. Deprived of milk, children develop de-velop a multitude of ills. They become thin and weak; their resistance re-sistance is low; they fall easy victims vic-tims to the germs of disease; there is small hope of their reaching reach-ing normal manhood and womanhood. woman-hood. Nor is milk only a food for children. chil-dren. It is likewise essential for adults who desire to live longer, happier, and healthier lives to fortify their bodies against the assaults as-saults of disease to retain or regain re-gain mental and bodily vigor. It is indeed a Fountain of Youth! -- Milk lor Pep and Power A quart of milk daily supplies from two-thirds to three-fourths of the total calories required by a year-old child. For a five-year old, it provides about half the day's fuel requirements, and fof a ten-year old, one-third. Even a moderately active man could ol tain one-fourth of his energy re quirements from a quart of thi precious fluid. It is also interesting interest-ing to note that five-eighths cup of milk is equivalent in energy value to one and one-third eggs, or two and one-fourth ounces of lean beef. A quart of milk yields more than an ounce of pure protein of the highest quality. Moreover, nutrition nu-trition authorities hold that under normal conditions, it is the most completely digested and absorbed of all food proteins. --Milk --Milk for Minerals As a source of calcium, milk is indispensable. Without milk, it is practically impossible for the body to obtain enough of this captain cap-tain of the minerals for normal skeletal development. It has been estimated that when the calcium requirement is met through the use of milk, the need for phosphorus will also be adequately ade-quately provided. Though milk is not as good a source of iron as of calcium and phosphorus, the iron is present and in ,a form that can be easily utilized by the body. --Milk --Milk for Vitamins Milk is so rich in vitamins A and G, that the addition of a quart of milk daily to a good mixed diet practically guarantees against a deficiency of either of these precious pre-cious substances which promote growth, help build resistance to disease, prolong the prime of life, and help to ward off old age. It also furnishes a considerable amount of vitamin B, which promotes pro-motes appetite, aids digestion and helps to prevent a nervous disorder. dis-order. Milk contains a relatively small amount of vitamin D, but this can be remedied in both bottled and evaporated milk by irradiation, or the addition of a vitamin D concentrate. con-centrate. It is less dependable as a source of vitamin C than any other vitamin, as the amount it naturally contains varies with the diet of the cow and is reduced by pasteurization or evaporation. This deficiency is easily made good, however, by adding to the diet fresh fruits and fruit juices and raw leafy vegetables. A In Praise oi Milk Producers As milk is man's finest food, the men who are occupied with its production are engaged in the world's most important pursuit, i They labor to provide the nation with a pure, safe, clean supply of the food that makes life worthwhile worth-while for children and helps to prolong life for adults. Let no one say that milk is expensive. ex-pensive. Rather let every home-maker home-maker come to realize that this magnificent food would be CHEAP AT ANY PRICE! C WNU -C. Houston Coudiaa-1838 IS |