Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-10-19 | Page 21 | What You Eat in a Year

r cJ What You Eat in a Year j If IE YOU have just an average appetite every year you eat 1400 pounds of solid and almost as much liquids The Thc ids include the water that forms forms' a nat I al l part of ill all vegetables and meats Celery instance is almost entirely entirety water In a ime you eat e-at enough food to fill several cars So estimates a scientist Mother h 1 t carries the heavy market basket is ap apt pt I Urn im the estimate is too low I r I ere was vas a time when people ate what wha get In primitive days food waa was wa w 1 a matter of chance The prowler in jungle or f forest rest might t kill a a. wild turkey t 0 day ay and a cave bear the next He find berries against it would be roots root There was no telling in V t the day would bring forth in the matter matte fr In time man learned teamed to domesticate als and cultivate the soil The element elemen t chance grew v less Diet became more cerl P nt l He could grow the things he liked best lest Then 1 en men b began gan to specialize Food using was left teft to a definite part of the the laHon Families had a wider choice choke They Sud buy what they preferred preferred and and get vadet va va- det ety Came the age ge of advertising Pub Pub- has has been applied strenuously to foods food food- s inducing people to buy certain foods food t Helping i them make up their minds instead o of leaving ying the choice entirely to the eater Now we have still another method pro method pro propaganda i Ip panda g to entice people into using certain S Sll fic foods in preference to others Thus Thu the raisin raisin- unite in an 4 growers advertising cam cam- ign to in increase ase their sales sates by educating people peo peo- pie to a knowledge that they need iron found in J in raisins Orange growers do the same UP the nes that bring health th this delicious fruit S So on n. n In the tong long W 1 f- f i r I run un however these propaganda campaigns campaign's tend end to counteract and neutralize each other For instance the American peoples people's bread eating is a fifth below normal as a result of food food conditions conditions during the war yie We Ve are urged to o eat more bread to help the wheat gro grower er While admittedly it would help the wheat grower and we do need more f flour our in our diet if we eat eat- more bread we certainly certainty are going to eat less of something else Vh What t helps one branch of farming by increasing demand also injures other branches by decreasing decreasing decreasing de de- de- de creasing their safes We Ve can eat just so much 1400 1400 pounds of solids a year and about the he same amount of liquids