Show W WJ J aJ f y rf U W rf rI I Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH BeI I DY DR LLOYD ARNOLD or of oC Bacteriology and nd nd Pre Medicine University Uni er of Illinois College of oC Medicine M r DIET y yM T 1 DIET FOR OLDSTERS WL W L APr APE now at I list last t be beginning to think of diet as a en live tIve ot of o the de degenerative tl tle e diseases ses of older life the diseases of the heart kidney and nd pancreas hese 1 hese of older lift life are rip Idly more of a n problem as our life expectancy Increases For Instance In Illinois In 1910 1010 only 3 32 per cent of ot the population was as over thirty the five years cars of age In WO 10 0 the number was as 40 per pH cent cent-a cent n gain of 8 3 per cent In 20 O Sears earsIn ears cars carsIn In saying duct diet however I 1 hasten to add that thaL this article Is not go go- go- go goIng goIng going ing to present spinach as the cure cureaU cureall cureall aU all for these older diseases Older Old Olden er en persons may cat eat spinach It if there be such as like It but older people thank goodness have no drastic dr need for vitamins In their diet It Its s the youngsters up to twenty sears ears of age or 1 o so 0 who ho must have foods that contain vitamins vitamins- vitamins who must ha have base e their spinach l le e oldsters done with our growl growing ng pains can take tahe It or leave lease lea e it It AndI And I for one leave It But nut coming back cl to our problem No person pest past thirty the five 0 e has the ph physical tone or the person of twenty t twenty en enty ty As our muscles begin to show v signs of ot sagging our hair of ot thin thin- thinning thinning thinning ning and our skin of drying so do our internal organs org lose their tone In the Ule same relative degree Is this true of the dl gestI e tract l The lie he lining of ot the stomach begins to blanch and the stomach secretes less les add acid As w e grow older this deficiency of the stomach to secrete acid affects n a re number of persons person In the fort forty to forty fort five fi year age group the number Is b 10 per tent cent to 12 per percent percent percent cent In the lift year ear group 20 ZO per percent percent percent cent In tile the sixty ear car group 30 per cent to 40 per cent In the sev ent ear group CO per cent For errs cars there his has been contro controversy controversy controversy versy bet between een practicing ph physicians and ph physiologists as to how this trouble was lS to be corrected The ph physicians believed cd In relieving their patients by hiving giving some form torm ot of acid as lS a medicine while the ts laughed at them be because because because cause they still slid with Ith two t or three pints of stomach juices requiring acidifying It was ms foolish to thin think that th a few foss drops of medicine taken by mouth In a glass hiss of water could do the Job 1 0 row Now In n a series of ot experiments we e ha have hale e been carrying carr Ing on In the there re research earch laboratories of ot the University sit sity of and which we e are just now rc to mal e a public we wehm hm hate e found at last that the clan Is right And the physiologist t was wrong rong when alien hen he thought stem stomach stomach ach acidity was as the main factor f In IndigestIon indigestion Indigestion digestIon It Is not However the acidity of the ich juices has n a great deal to do with the health ot of the Idu it 11 For at nt the Inborn labora tor we have proved that th when there Is no acid secretion In the stomach the bacteria from rom the low lower lower er Intestines can make te their wiy Into the upper Intestines and the stomach ch and the absorbed products can reach the heart rt and s And If It these latter organs org are arc al alread alread read sho showing Ing signs Igns of ot degenerating ing then the addition of these low lower lower lower er Intestinal products helps In their still further degeneration i When hen the stomach ch Is acid how how- however however ever the intestinal bacteria cannot get either into It or the upper tipper In It Is as If the stomach acid acidIty Ity Hy made a i gate through which the Intestinal b cannot piss ith Ith tills this fact known n oui out problem then tIlen was s to find how to mil male e a the stomach juices acid for anyway an way uy two to four hours after tIng eating when the major m work stork of ot digestion goes goeson goeson goeson on We tried many man experIments It Its was s found that th synthetic s acids such as 1 per cent citric lactic hydrochloric one sulphuric sulphuric one was lS s is asgood good as helped another another alien hen taken In water Wlter at meal time But oho bo wants ants to be t taking medicine at ate esery e ery meal Foods roods were tried out And then through experiment after experiment ment we e pro proved ed that n a diet rich In acid and poor In alkaline would do dothe dothe the trick So In the diet for the older per person person person son we cau n forget vitamins as n a factor It Its s we e are Simply eat cat plenty of lean meat t eggs butter fl flesh esh fruit green reen foods other fre fresh h vegetables Go Co Goeasy on potatoes ho hoe however e eer er cere 11 foods pastry other st s ill fats except butter I s ld green foods you notice And spin itch is n a green food tood So I If f Sou QU ou III lit eit e eIt eit It eat cat It But there are many other hinds of green foods food beside are turnip greens and beet greens chard asparagus ncI lettuce celery celen and c Sour kraut Is Isone Isone Isone one of ot the best dishes older ohler persons can eat t Sour kraut Juice Is good too and so are tomato tom lemon and pineapple Juice Do not drink much milk but drink free freel freely of but term Ill Of Ot course diet will not cure n a vital disease Such diseases dis I eases eases elees need the cure care of a physician nut But If it you ou ha the Intes distress that so many persons pest forty experience then tryout try out this diet for n a few months And It you have as yet no symptoms then this tills diet will still aid alII you In pro pre preventing venting tenting them In any case the tho lie diet will do not I hirm so It Is worth orth trying Q e 0 V a astern N w eY |