Show Let Our Motto Be I GOOD HEALTH BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD I ARNOLDI Professor of BacterIology and Preventive vc Medicine University of Illinois College of MedIcIne J DIET FOR OLDSTERS TiD AnD ARD now fit at last be beginning V V to think ot of diet as a preventive or of the degenerative disuses of old older older er life Ufe the diseases of the stomach heart kIdney and pancreas These diseases of older life Ufe are rapidly be becoming becoming coming more of II a problem as our Ufo life expectancy or or In Instance instance stance in Illinois in 1910 only 32 per cent of the population was over 35 years cars of age In 1930 the number was 40 per cent n gain of S 3 per cent In 20 years ears earsIn In saying diet howe howe er er I haste hastel to add that article Is not goin going to as n the cure nIl all for these older diseases dl eases Older persons may eat spinach If there be such as like It but older people thank goodness have no drastic need for In th their lr diet let Its It's the youn youngsters up to t tw enty y ears of age or so who mu must t hive foods th that lt con tamn who mn must t have theIr spinach We oldsters done w Ith our ourI growing pains c con In tale It or leave I It And I for one IE tease e 1 It it That's personal ot of course spinach Is good food excellent food I recommend It for babies and the teen age group But ige has It its compensations But coming back to our problem No pt r on Pt past thirty five has the physIcal tone of the person of ten t tent ty t As our mn muscles cles begIn to show v signs of sagging 1 ng our haIr of thinnIng and our skin shin ot of drying dr Ing so do our internal organs lose loce their tone In the same relative e degree Particularly Is thIs true or of the dl di digesti gesti e tract The linIng of the stomach begIns to blanch and the I stomach secretes less aCid As we e eI I brow older ohler this deficiency of the stomach to secrete ete acid affects u l greater number of persons In the I forty to fort five year age group the number Is 10 per rent cent to 12 per cent I In the fifty year ear group 20 per cent In the sixty year ear group roup 30 per cent centI I 1 to 40 p per r rent cent In the seventy year I group GO CO per cent centi I or years ears the e 2 has been contro vercy between practicing pIn ph and pl pin as to how this trop tron I ble was to be beI I a The ph sl slI I clans ed II fu relle ID ing their pt p pI I b bs giving some form of acid as n a medicine s hale thE Ih hu laughed hed hedt t it them e this sail I with two t or pInt pints of stomach 1 juices requiring rIng f ing it wait aCI I to think that a fen fe drops of medicine taken by mouth In a gla glass of venter could do the job jobI I r ow In a series serKS of e e we e been carrying cul ing on In the re- re I ch of the of IllInois and V which we e are just no now ready to male ne e hu hate e found at last that the physIcian Is rj right ht And the ph was rong rong when hen he thought stomach acidity as the m tin lIn factor In digestion R It Is not However er the acidity t of the stomach ach juices has a great greut de e ii 1 to do with Ith the health of the For or Forat at the laboratory we e have proved pro that w hen there Is no acid secretion In Inthe inthe the stomach the from the lower 10 er intestines can make their way Into the upper Intestines and the stomach and the absorbed products con reach the heart rt and kidneys And If these latter organs Ire are already ho showing In signs of degenerating then the addItion of these lower 10 er Intestinal pt pi helps In theIr still further degeneration on lien hen the stomach Is aCId how how- howe e C Cel el ei thE In intestinal b cannot c get r Into it or the upper In intestine It is 1 a as If the stomach aCid It made a gate through h which the Intestinal i i cannot pass s Ith thIs fact n our problem then was 1 to find how to make mahe the stoin juices acid for an anyway lY t two 0 to four hours after ettin w hen the major work orl of dl digestion goe goes on We tried many c e It was found that synthetic aCIds such as 1 per cent citric lactic h hydrochloric dl sulphuric one was as as good as helped another when hen taken in water ater at meal time I But vs ho wants to be n taking medIcine nt at every mell mega roods were erp trIed out And then through h experiment after e we pro proved ed that a dIet rich In acid and poor In all alkaline do the trick So In the dIet for the older per person on we can as a factor It Its s acidity we e Ire are after Simply eat cut plenty of lean meat ets eq butter fresh fruit foods other fresh Go e eason 1 on potatoes how ho hoI however I ever er cereal foods pastry other t starches s sweets all fats except e but butter butter ter I S lid green foo foods y ou oti notice An And spinach s is n a green fool food So If you OU like It eat It It But there Ire are mans other kinds of green foods be- be beside side HIe spinach 1 hm L Ire are turnIp greens tad beet items U colen celers ud callI cabb 1 tie Sour Is one of the h hest t ol older u uI per persons eft C Sour our kraut juice is isI I oo too ton anti so Ire are torn to lemon I and pint aphie juke juice Do not drink I much w eel null mill hut but drink freels h hof of hiitti milk I Of se dILl ditl will not Lure cure a Seri Serious ell ous It II I e Such diseases used I the L a Ire of u 1 ph m an But If you the ordinary I that So pu persons ons pat forty et then tryout try this diet for n nfl few fl months And If you h hire e 1 as yet no S then thIs diet will aid you In preventing them In any ca ease e the diet will do no harm so It Is worth trying 0 iS western Union |