Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-15 | Page 6 | You and Your Health

You Y au and Y Your o FHe Heals f I IBy By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of tho tim American l Medical Association d. d Hygeia the Health l IaK Magazine 4 A J When you eat a an apple appIe you get 82 per cent water and 12 12 percent per percent percent cent carbohydrate with less lesa than 1 per cent of ot the other constituents constituents except pt fiber J A strawberry gives you 90 per cent water 6 percent per percent I cent carbohydrate and 1 per cent protein A raw peach provides 95 85 per percent percent percent cent carbohydrate but If It it is boiled the carbohydrate Is greatly reduced A banana provides 74 i per cent water 27 per cent carbohydrate carbohydrate carbohydrate car car- and 1 per cent protein protein pro pier tein w whereas watermelon gives per c cent nt water 65 per cent carbohydrate and very little tittle pro pro- tein Dried fruits such as raisins dates and figs have of ot course coune much less Jess water to 20 per cent and from 70 to 75 per percent percent percent cent carbohydrate Because of ot I their concentrated character they provide as as much as 1500 calories a pound An ordinary apple provides calories s three plums or three prunes will give calories and ando so o will a n. two-Inch two slice of ot watermelon water water- melon An orange pr provides the same number of ot calories but It tak takes s a a whole cantaloupe to give equal energy For this reason cantaloupe is a good substance Ina in ina a a. reducing diet Among the unusual fruit products products products prod prod- are the cranberry and the I avocado Cranberries are arc slightly laxative like Jike other fruits and they provide fair tail amounts amount of vitamin C but lesser amounts of ot A B Band and D. D The cranberry also is useful for its iodine content Many people feel teel that the cranberry cranberry cranberry cran cran- berry is dangerous because it produces pro pro f duces acid Scientific tests show however that tho the alkali reserve of tho the body does docs not decrease until more than 54 grams of cranberries cranberries cranberries cran cran- berries or more than quarter one-quarter pound have been beon eaten Few people cat as much as a quarter pound of ot cranberries at atone atone atone one time The human body has factors of at safety which take care of ot acidity coming In this manner The avocado or alligator pear Is Interesting because it eon fat and has a low carbo content The fat of the IV varies from 8 to 31 per C cent carbohydrate being about is 45 cent ent 9 rr The avocado is particularly i J in vitamin A and contains contain I deal of vitamin B In fliS fact fa expert Insists that one 1 a provides as much vitamin B II cakes of yeast This Inter tf fruit is higher In rats rats' oranges lemons pe chea IM strawberries Dietary advisers have ve devel many methods method of ot serving thil c cado do Jo so that when available av it highly valuable as a constituent salads and may be used alia h sandwich fillings or molded fruits and vegetables tables In 1 gels