Show fo Diet and Health AUn By Lulu Hunt 1 J Pe Peters ter MD I ft et Key to the Calories 1 THIN TOO Part 4 There are other measures besides increasing the diet that will help you to gain but increasing the diet is the most important single mea mea- sure My last three articles to you who are trying to gain emphasized the I importance ce of eating mOTe moro than you have been Are you ou skeptical that this will help you Read this letter from one of last years year's gaining gaining gaining gain gain- I ing class that came in m my mornIngs mornIng's mornings morning's morn morn- ings ing's mail mall It has many valuable j i suggestions In It j I IMy My Dear Dr Peters You Peters You have been a true friend to my husband I and myself through your column At the time we commenced housekeeping housekeeping house house- I keeping four years ago we were both very much underweight and of course suffering from the various vari- vari vari var- I ous disorders which usually accompany accompany pany undernourishment I Chiefly I believe through the milk in cooking cooking- uso use of more m my mr I make all an kinds of bread with it I use uso it for cooking cereals and the J vegetables that do not have o be I drained make male soups sauces and I desserts and use it in a great many I ways I 1 had not thought of before reading your column column my my husband I is now normal weight and feeling i 50 per cent better and although I I still have a few pounds to add Im I'm I coming I I 1 wish you OU might make your advice advice ad ad- I ad-I vice to the the T. T T. T Ts T.'s more em em- emI I There may not be as many o of us as there are of the F. F F. F F.'s I but I believe we are in greater I need 1 I 1 have a request to make mak I We Weare Weare e eare I are overjoyed because we are ex expecting expecting ex- ex an heir or heiress heiress' in the ne near r future and I want to be prel prepared prepared pre pre- I pared to make it comfortable so please send me rae any advice you may l have to offer to inexperienced mothers to Sincerely m nn MRS J J. Now there is something in this letter Ill I'll wager you ave flave not no no- no It is this This couple have been married four years without any offspring Did their undernourishment undernourishment undernourishment under under- nourishment have anything to do with this It might have In the experimental nutrition laboratories it has been proved that animals that are fed on diets deficient in Vitamins often be become ome sterile stenle Now It is highly probable that in under- under eating as our ours friends apparently did they were not getting sufficient vitamins Overweight has the same tendency in certain cases to produce sterility as underweight To the those those who believe milk to be an unnatural food for adults this adults this letter is a good refutation Milk l is just as aI asgood good a food for adults as it is for babies balies and children and it is no nomore nomore nomore more unnatural than most of or our foods Our wheat and other grains and our fruits have all been perfected perfected per per- by man through cultivation In Jn their wild states many of the foods are inferior The longest lived and the most virile peoples in the world that we know of the of-the of the nomad Arabs and certain certain tain tam people in the Himalayas and some of the Balkans Balkans are are great consumers of milk Occasionally it is true there are people who cannot take milk they have what is called an idiosyncrasy idiosyncrasy idiosyncrasy or sensitization to ordinary milk And many of these people can take it in modified forms however however how how- I ever as in custards cheeses maltI malted malt malt- I cd ed milks cream eream sauces etc In InI your gaining gaming regime milk is the I food above all others that you I should add to your diet if you vou pOssibly possibly pos- pos I sibly can In ITo last weeks week's paper I 1 spoke I about adding egg yolks more nuts whole grain breads cereals also etc to I the diet Too often those who are underweight try to gain gam by adding too many oily foods This is apt I to upset the digestion r Tomorrow Ill I'll tell teil you vou some o oft the other measures to help hep you vou gain I CorreI Corre Corre- Tomorrow Answers to I |