Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-07 | Page 6 | Dr. Fishbein's Health Talks

r Dr Fishbein's Fishbein Health I TalIs By DR MORRIS The latest fad food ex cx- are arc tr trying Ing to impose upon you OU OUis is the one in which you are warned not to mix proteins with drates faddists advise you par par- against the mixture of proteins pro pro- with that form lorm of oC carbohydrates known as starch But you ou can easily see how tous lous this Idea is when you consIder that meat and potatoes crackers and cheese and similar combinations have for hundreds of years been staples of diet for most people Human beings have been eating mixtures ot of proteins and starch forso for lor so many thousands ot of years that the beginning is beyond the available records record o of matt malt Certainly the human bein being cannot be said to have deterIorated really greatly from a physical point of view in that time since our life expectancy today is far greater reater than it was years cars ago The proteins arc among the most Ira Ira- of the food elements clements since they provide materIal for growth and repair repair- of oC tissues Such substances as cheese meat fish and eggs are rich sources of protein The starches provide material for muscular action and output of oC en en- ergy Bread cereals and some ot of the theve ve vegetables like potatoes are manly marily starchy foods Nevertheless bread cereals and potatoes po po- all contain protein as ao well In Intact Intact tact if iC you should eat the food substances sub sub- stances as they are developed by nature na na- ture you could not avoid mixing proteins pro pro- and starches because nature has mixed them herself Coupled with the food faddists faddist's at attack tack on mixtures is his warning about acidosis as the cause of most human disturbances If you eat cat a well balanced diet you do not need worry about acidosis Your body contains factors ot of safety wh which ch take care of slight excesses cs in certain types of oC food Adequate amounts ot of milk green reen vegetables and fruit and eggs or other proteins daB daily w will ll have little any if-any tendency toward formation ot of excess acid in the body In fact the eating of a variety of food substances provides just the amount of balance of one type of toad food against another that your our body in health actually needs