Show I d d J Fads Have Always Been the Rage f I. I By Dorothy Roe Roes s i d Tress Press Women's Editor 9 the one topic of most mosto o most people today Its It's not war or politics or even love Its It's food Listen in on any conversation conversation conversation conversa conversa- tion at a large gathering of men and women and fully half of the people will be talking about food Some will be de describing their latest reducing diet others will willbe willbe willbe be discussing the newest vitamins vitamins vitamins vita vita- mins and health foods and others others others oth oth- ers will be exchanging recipes It is an established fact in the publishing field that cook books outsell all other publications except the Bible It seems that men and women women wom worn en are interested first in their steak and potatoes and after that they are willing t I 1 take up more esoteric topics The importance of food in the of the general public may explain the periodic food fads that sweep the country and always provide ground for hot controversy Full Swing Swing- Such a controversy is going full tilt at the moment with half the population gulping tasting strange-tasting new health foods and the other half assailing assailing assailing as as- sailing them as faddists and fanatics Practically any well dressed dinner table has its bottle of vitamin pills in full view along with the salt pepper and sodium sodium sodium so so- glutamate And mothers spend a great deal of time worrying worrying worrying wor wor- whether their offspring are suffering from malnutrition tion despite the fact that they eat three square meals a day plus hearty snacks between times limes The diet fads come and go but all of them find enthusiastic tic followers I There was the time some years ago when millions of women all over the country were subsisting on an exclusive exclusive exclusive sive diet of shredded raw vege vege- tables There was a period when people swore by a diet of bananas bananas bananas ba ba- ba- ba nanas and skimmed milk nothing else to take off weight And there was the lamb Iamb chop and pineapple era Yogurt Clan ClanA A popular diet at the moment is built around blackstrap molasses molasses molasses mo mo- lasses yogurt and wheat germ Many l nutritionists however point out that a normal diet of milk fruit vegetables meat cereals and other common foods contains all the nutritional onal elements elements elements ele ele- ments essential to health without without without with with- out resort to extra dosages As in most other matters it seems that plain common sense is the best guide to diet When nature has provided us with an abundance of palatable natural foods it seems logical to believe belie that these arc what we are intended to eat cat And no matter how many food fans come down the pike I doubt if the general population population tion ever will be he willing to substitute substitute substitute sub sub- sub sub- a food capsule for a hearty steak dinner |