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Show A Nourishing Diet That Is Low in Cost By DR. JAMES W. BARTON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) IN MY student days we learned that there were three main classes of foods proteins (meat, eggs, fish, cereals) , I . I starches TODAY'S (bread, pota- UCfllTU toes, sugar), ntLI n and fats (but- COLUMN ter, cream, fat I I meats). The other foodstuffs, salts iron, lime, phosphorous phosphor-ous and water, were considered consid-ered "necessary" foods. Today foods are not considered entirely from the standpoint of fuel or heat, but from the standpoint of the building of the body and maintaining main-taining the various body processes )in proper condition to do their work. In days when foods necessary to maintain health are of the utmost llliyui Lctncc lu a nation, na-tion, adults, children and children of the future, not only must these foods be acquired ac-quired but they must be within the reach of those with low income. in-come. That the expectant mother must have an excess quantity of foods containing all the food essen- Dr. Barton tiais proteins, tats, starches, minerals and vitamins is agreed. It is a source of surprise and satisfaction therefore to learn that -research workers at Columbia university have found that the expectant ex-pectant mother can live on a diet costing as little as 34 cents a day and still get generous amounts of all food substances she needs. Suggested Diet. This diet is announced by Dr. Clara Taylor, Columbia university, assistant professor of nutrition. A sample day's menu consists of: Breakfast four prunes; one cup of oatmeal with a little sugar; two slices of whole wheat toast; one tablespoon ta-blespoon butter; one glass of milk. Lunch Cream of tomato soup made with one half cup of tomatoes, one-fourth cup evaporated milk, one teaspoon flour and one teaspoon fat; salad of one egg, lettuce, mayonnaise; mayon-naise; cheese sandwich (three ounces of cheese and teaspoon butter) but-ter) on whole wheat bread; one glass of milk. Dinner Three ounces broiled beef liver; one baked potato; one cup kale or cabbage; two slices 'whole wheat bread; two tablespoons butter; but-ter; one banana; one glass milk. Sugar allowance for a day is one ounce. What to Do for Cases of Enuresis ONE of the gratifying discoveries in recent years is a method or methods of curing bed wetting or enuresis. Even after children reach their teens, they may be embarrassed embar-rassed by this distressing condition. condi-tion. In young children, liquids are cut down toward evening, the child is sent to the bathroom before going to bed and as the parents are retiring the child is awakened by his parents and walks to the bathroom again. This gets him completely awake and is considered an important part of the treatment. Formerly the parent par-ent carried the child to the bathroom bath-room and in many cases he was not completely awake. Part of the treatment also were methods to prevent pre-vent the child lying on his back during dur-ing sleep knot in tail of sleeping garment, narrow space in bed preventing pre-venting him lying on his back. A great advance in the treatment of older boys and girls is the eating of the salt sandwich. No liquid of any kind is allowed after 4 p. m., and a sandwich of bread and butter with a layer of table salt, or salt fish, or salt meat is given at bedtime. bed-time. As salt holds 70 times its own weight of water, this great amount of salt at bedtime holds the water in the tissues till morning, thus preventing it going down to the kidneys. However, there are some cases of bed wetting that are not due to nervousness nerv-ousness or to emotional disturbance, but to some condition of the kidneys, kid-neys, bladder, or the generative organs or-gans themselves. The editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association advises that before any treatment for bed wetting is begun a thorough examination of the kid-V kid-V neys, bladder and generative organs be made, including X-rays, to determine de-termine whether the cause is organic or-ganic or functional. QUESTION BOX Q. Please advise me regarding the cause of glaucoma, and is this ailment curable? A. The causes of glaucoma are not definitely known. Some derangement derange-ment of liver or kidney or both is believed a cause. Sometimes glaucoma glau-coma is due to some disturbance in eye Itself. In older people may be due to high blood pressure. Heredity He-redity is believed to be a factor. Medical and surgical treatment to relieve symptoms is the usual pro-' pro-' cedure. |