Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 51 | Intelligence to be Used in Changing Diet

Intelligence to Be Used in Changing Diet ACK of or Intelligence In adopting LACK the Hoover regulations about food foo often results in sickness s. s when a little thought would preserve perfect health As an illustration of oC this lacka lack a of intelligence Dr W W. Gilman Thompson Thomp Thomp- son of Now New York in ln an address before the tho Practitioners' Practitioners Society reported In Inthe Inthe inthe the Medical Record told tho the following While travelling tra recently upon one of or our trunk lines in the tho dining car cara a vcr very obese man wedged himself In opposite me mc at tho the table The menu card announced a meatless Tuesday but gave no hint as to how bow to select substitutes nor were any special substitutes sub sub- provided So the fat Cat man endeavored endeavored endeavored en en- to nourish his pounds with a selection of ot macaroni toast and other wheat roods foods thereby eating much more wheat heat than he ordinarily might have done thinking himself pa pa- There Is little gain in saying I meat b by wasting wheat wheaL What he should have ordered both for his patriotism patriotism pa pa- and health should have ha been fruit an nn egg or two and a salad with cheese Dr Thompson said that some SOUle persons per per- sons soils who had been heavy meat caters eaters gained weight by changing to a diet dietor or corn and oats but loss of or weight was more common owing O to a distaste for or the tho coarser cereals and a consequent consequent consequent conse conse- quent reduction In the net Intake of oC food With some of or his patients he had had to insist upon more cream and milk and honey and maple sugar to take the place of or cane sugar Persons whose health Is not normal make a great mistake In adopting the diet without consulting thou their physicians for the coarser cereal cero cero- al nl produce many forms of or indigestion In those whose ability to assimilate starchy foods is Impaired Tho The aged according to Dr Thompson should never mal make e such changes without medical advice CI