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Show Advice on Your Health By Morris Fishbein, Editor, Journal American Medical Association In som sections of th coun- ' try, addiction to fruit and vege-' vege-' table juices has grown apace. There Is, of course, a definite place In the diet for fruits and vegetables and also for fruit and vegetable juices, but ther Is no magic In tomato Juice, pineapple, orange or grape Juice. Ther is no mystery about cider, grapefruit grape-fruit Juice or loganberry Juice, and there Is leas even to cause excitement about sauerkrsut Juk-e. celery Juire or the fluids derived from squeezing other vegetable. On reason why fruit and vegetable vege-table juices are su popular la th fori thai amw eel much leas raibohydrate ford for energy than we need te sat. W do not tie eur snuarle 'or walking or for heavy lifting. Therefor, there is a tendency te depend on fruit and vegetable Juices rather than ea th cereals and bread. Among the fruit Juices, grape-fruit, grape-fruit, pineapple, orange, apple and grape are the leaders, but lemon, lime, tangerine, loganberry, logan-berry, apricot, peach, prune, plum, pomegranate, currant, pear, and other Juices are also available, and there are technique tech-nique for making nectarine. Strawberry and blueberry Juices. Among th vegetsble Juices, tomato and sauerkraut Juice lead th field, but ther is also som market for celery, spinach, car- ' rot, garlic, onion, beet and lettuce let-tuce Juice. The chief factors In sny food substance are proteins, carbohydrates, carbo-hydrates, fatsmineral salts, water wa-ter and roughage. One value of the fruit Juice Ilea In their sugar content Grape juice will yield from 16 to 17 per cent of sugar; orange juice, 8 to 14 per cent; pineapple, 7 to 10 per cent and apples, 8 to 12 per cent. Most fruit Juices era low in protein and in fat. Th fruit Juices are unlikely to contain large amounts of vitamin vita-min A because this is a fat soluble solu-ble vitamin. However, th substance sub-stance called carotene, out of which the body develops vitamin A, is available In fair amounts In som of th fruit juices. Most fruits are fair sources of vitamin B, which haa com to be known as th antincuritis vitamin, and all fruits contain fairly good quantities of vitamin C. Vitamin C happens to be easily oxydized and in the making and pasteurization of certain fruit Juices vitamin C la largely lost Strained Juices from orsnges snd lemons contain about aa much vitamin C as did the fresh fruits themselves. .The tomato Is a fruit but la usually classed as a vegetable. The tomato is a good source of vitamin A, Bl, B2 or G, and an excellent source ot vitamin C TEtEFACT FINLAND'S POPULATION (1930) iT"--"- o o (5 Eiiiii eutu VCtOOO irclfili . nuA ttANtfoaiAnoN WXA test usuc usvH.1. rtomtioH 13S.U00 " iiii J Sst-- iS - J a. a eja. CJarwjva apgsrsesTssrfejf aaasjteajssagg trasy e-aa |