| Show Diet 11 b iD J peters eters TOO TOO-TOO THIN Part 4 4 VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS SUGGEST There ar are other measures besides Increasing the diet diet that will help you to gain but in increasing the diet is the most important single meas meas- ure I 1 My last three articles es to you who are trying to gain emphasized the Importance of eating moro morn more than you have been Are you skeptical aI that this will will- hop help you Read this letter that came in my mornings morning's mail mall It has many valuable suggestionS suggestionS' suggestions suggestions suggestions' sug sug- in it it My Dear Dr Peters You have been a true friend to my husband and me through your column At Atthe Atthe Atthe the time we commenced housekeeping housekeeping housekeep housekeep- ing four years ago we were both very much underweight n I and o of f course suffering from the various disorders which usually accompany undernourishment Chiefly I believe through the use use of more milk in my cooking cooking I 0 king 1 I make all kinds of bread with it using it for cooking cereals and the vegetables that do not nor have to tobe be drained make soups sal sauces ces and nd desserts and use it in a great man many ways I had not thought of before reading your column column my my husband is now normal weight and feeling 50 per cent better and although I 1 still have a few pounds to add Im I'm coming comin I I wish wish you might make your ad advIce advice advice ad- ad vice to the T T. T. T Ts T.'s more emphatic There may may- not be as many of us as there are of the F P. F. F F.'s but I beli believe ve we are in greater r need I have a request to make Weare We Weare Weare are overjoyed because we are expecting expecting ex ex- an heir or heiress in the near future and I want to be prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared to make mate it comfortable so please send me any advice avice you m may y have to offer to inexperienced to mothers be Mrs J. J Now there Is in hi this letter Ill I'll wager you have not no no- no It is is' this this couple have been married four years without ut offspring Did their undernourishment ment laVe have anything to do with this It might have In the experimental nutrition laboratories laboratories lab lab- ab- ab oratories it has been proved that animals that are fed on diets deficient deli deli- clent in in vitamins often become sterile Now it is highly probable that Hi Iii as our friends app apparently did they w were re not getting getting getting get get- ting sufficient vitamins vitamins Overweight Overweight Over Over- weight eight has the same tendency in certain cases to produce sterility as underweight To the those those who believe be believe believe be- be lieve milk to bean be an unnatural food for adults this adults this letter is a good refutation refu refu- tation Milk is Just as g good od a food for adults as as It t is f for r babies and chi children dren and it is 6 more unnatural unnatural unnatural ural than most of our foods Our wh wheat at and other grains and our fruits have all been perfected b by byman man through cultivation In their wild states many ot o of the foods food are Inferior I. I The longest-lived longest and the most virile peoples in the world t that tat at we know of the of-the the nomad Arabs and certain certain certain tain peoples in the Himalayas and nd some of the Balkans are are great consumers consumers consumers con con- con con- sumers of milk Occasionally It is true there are people who cannot take milk they have what is called an idiosyncrasy or sensitization tion to ordinary milk But many of of these people can take It If- In to modified forms as at In custards ch cheeses s malted t d mils milks cream cream re m sauces etc In you your gaining regime milk Is the food above all others that you should add to your diet if it you possibly possibly bly can I. I In one of my recent papers I spoke about adding egg yolk more nuts whole grain breads cereals etc to the diet Too often those who are rire underweight try to gain by adding ding too many oily olly foods This is ap apt to upset the digestion Tomorrow Ill I'll tell you some o n othe othe the other othe measures to help you gain Tomorrow Lifes Tomorrow Life's Lifes Minor Colli Colli- Copyright 1 1927 27 by the George Gcorge Matthew Adams Service |
