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Show THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1938 THE FARK RECORD PAGE SEVEN WHA T to EAT and WHY . ijoaiton (foudiil "Pcictibei. the Place of Fats in the Diet Nationally Known Food Authority Compares the Different Cooking Fats and Shortenings By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS 8 East 39th St., New York City. THERE are, perhaps, more false notions concerning fats than any other class of foods. Some homemakers, considering them as "fattening" only, try to eliminate them entirely from the diet. Others have the impression that foods containing fat are difficult to digest, and for this reason deprive their families of many delicious and neaitntui foods. Both? points of view arise from ignorance of dietary facts. -- Fats Are Necessary to Health Fats have a number of important im-portant functions to perform. They are a concentrated fuel food, having more than twice the energy value of an equal weight of protein or carbohydrate. carbohy-drate. One-half ounce of fat, that is one tablespoon, yields 100 calories, and were he able to eat it, a man could obtain an entire en-tire day's fuel from three-fourths of a pound of fat. It is interesting to note that it would require re-quire nearly eight pounds of cooked rice to give the same number of calories. In Oriental countries, coun-tries, where large populations live in great poverty, fat is usually scarce and it is necessary to consume con-sume huge quantities of food in order or-der to meet the daily fuel requirements. require-ments. As a result, most of the people develop distended abdomens. abdo-mens. -- Children Must Have Fat Because fat is such a compact food, nutritionists agree that for growing boys and girls, and men engaged in strenuous physical exercise, ex-ercise, fat is almost essential, if they are to get enough total calories. cal-ories. There is also experimental evidence evi-dence that at least a small amount of one or more of the unsaturated fatty acids must be supplied by the food if normal nutrition is to be maintained. And two competent compe-tent investigators found, experimentally, experi-mentally, that the presence of fat in the diet tends to conserve vitamin vita-min B in the body. Some fats, especially those from animal sources, are rich in vitamins vita-mins A and D, and fats made from vegetable oils may contain l0f Jj At J vitamin E. Fct and Hunger Perhaps the greatest service performed by fat is its ability to give "staying power" to the diet-to diet-to satisfy hunger. In this respect, it directly affects the disposition and may influence the ability to enjoy life. The shortage of fats in European countries during the World war graphically demonstrated how a deficiency of this class of foods can destroy the morale of entire nations. With supplies cut off or very greatly curtailed, the warring countries found it necessary to ration ra-tion fats closely. As a result, their people were always hungry and dissatisfied, even when their actual needs were satisfied. In this connection, it Is interesting to note that a slice of bread and butter but-ter or margarine will delay the onset of hunger longer than a slice of bread and jam, even though the number of calories may be the same. --Different --Different Fats Compared As sources of energy, the different differ-ent food fats are very similar. Thus, the homemaker's choice may be determined by preference, convenience, economy, and the use to which the product is to be put. The various forms of edible fats and oils are derived from both animal ani-mal and vegetable sources. They include butter, margarine, lard, compounds, which are a mixture of animal fats and vegetable oils, hydrogenated fats, and, the liquid vegetable oils. Butter and margarine are used chiefly as a spread, and it is interesting in-teresting to note that the annual per capita consumption of margarine mar-garine is steadily increasing, as homemakers have discovered that the use of this less expensive product prod-uct releases more money for milk, fruits and vegetables. Margarine is interchangeable with butter for dressing vegetables and in doughs containing spices, fruits and chocolate. choc-olate. Its shortening power and keeping qualities are similar to those of butter. Lards, compounds and other shortening fats are useful not only as a means of increasing palata-bility palata-bility and food value, but to add flakiness to baked foods and to produce a crisp coating which seals in the minerals and vitamins of fried foods. Lard iS used chiefly as a shortening short-ening for pastry, and a good grade will be found to be white and free from objectionable odors. The highest grade, called leaf lard, is produced from the leaves of fat in the sides of the hog. When made by a reputable man- uiacturer, tne compounds pre pared especially for cake making, for shortening pastry and for deep-frying, are wholesome, high ly nutritious and give most satis factory results. They are a most economical form of shortening. --Digestibility --Digestibility of Fats Because of their ability to retard re-tard digestion somewhat and thus give satiety value to a meal, the impression has grown up that fats are "difficult" to digest. This results re-sults from confusing the length of time required for digestion and the completeness with which a food is digested. When "digestibility" is regarded regard-ed in the popular sense of the ease, Are You You can EEBUCS Safely Surely ComfoitaMy Send for This Free Bulletin Offered by C Houston Goudiss Readers of this newspaper are invited to write to C Houston Goudiss, at 6 East 39th Street, New York City, for his tcien-tificReducingBulletin, tcien-tificReducingBulletin, which ahows how to reduce by the safe and sane method of counting calories. Tb bulletin it complete with s ' chart shawms the caloric value of all the commonly used foods and contains sample menus that you can use as a tude to comfortable and healthful weigbt reduction. comfort and speed with which the digestive organs carry on their work, it is conceded that fats in general retard the secretion of the gastric juice and thus cause food to remain longer in the stomach. On the other hand, most fats have such a high coefficient of digestibility, that under normal conditions only about one-twentieth of the fat eaten escapes digestion. diges-tion. Experiments indicate, for example, ex-ample, that the coefficient of digestibility di-gestibility of oleomargarine is 97.55 per cent. It is sometimes erroneously stated that pastry is indigestible. This statement is without foundation, founda-tion, provided the pastry is made from a high grade shortening and is properly baked. Similarly, fried foods come in for a great deal of criticism that should not be charged to the use of fat, but to incorrect methods of cooking. If food is properly cooked in fat that has a high smoking point, there will be no opportunity for decomposition decom-position products to develop. Much Fat? Nutritionists have .Ample evidence evi-dence that health is best served when 30 to 35 per cent of the total energy value foods is provided in the form of fat. This will include the fat of meat and the fat used in cooking the many delicious fried and baked foods which make eating eat-ing a pleasure. Questions Answered Miss C. B. R. It is difficult to compare the iron content of meats because of variations in the amount of fat. It has been established, estab-lished, however, that organ meats, as liver and kidneys, contain more iron than muscle meats, and that pork and lamb contain much less iron than beef. Mrs. M. L., Jr. Dandelion greens make - an excellent food. They contain more phosphorus than any other common leafy vegetable, and supply vitamins A, B, C and G. ffi WNU C. Houston Goudiss 193ft 13 For Chic and for Comfort Do You Want to Learn Warn to Plan a IniinLiuG Disi? Cet This Free Bulletin Offered by C. Houston Goudiss READERS of this newspaper are invited to write to C. Houston Goudiss, 6" East 39th Street, New "York City, for a free copy of his bulletin, "Helpful "Help-ful Hints on Planning a Laxative Laxa-tive Diet." The bulletin gives concrete suggestions for combatting faulty elimination through correct cor-rect eating and proper habits of hygiene. It gives a list of laxative laxa-tive foods and contains a full week's sample menus. A postcard post-card is sutticient to catty your request. XT EITHER of these new designs will be much trouble to make each is accompanied by a de tailed sew chart and both of them will give increasing joy and satisfaction all summer long. Prettv Afternoon Dress. A perfect style for afternoon tons, club meetings and lunch eons, delightfully cool to wear, with lines that flatter the figure. Shirring at the shoulders, full, short sleeves and the built-up waistline emphasize the slimness of your hips, and make the dress ceful. Make it uo in - - o georgette, chiffon, voile or hand kerchief linen. Tot's Play Suit. It's a diagram pattern, that you can make in a luTy. Just a little sturdy cotton and a little bright butterfly and you have the cutest, most comfortable play out fit in the world for two-to-eight nativities. Sauare-necked, scal loped all round, and conveniently tied at the side. Choose gingham, percale, pique, linen or broadcloth. 1517 is designed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 re-quires re-quires 4 yards of 39-inch material. mate-rial. 1910 is designed for sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 4 requires 1 yards of 35-inch material for the apron; yard for the panties; 33i yard braid or bias binding to trim as pictured. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. BeU Syndicate. WNU Service. MW1S BOYS! GIRLS AVIATION CAPS FREE HOTEL BEN LOMOND 4 WT I s : til a i tin, 311 R 41. ; 4 Lf i i ... -! OGDEN, UTAH 350 Boomt 350 Baths - 12.09 to H.59 Family Booms for 4 penona - $1.00 Air Cooled Loons' and Lobby Grill Boom . . Coffee Shop . . Tap Boom Homo of Rotary Kiwanls Executive Exchange Optimna 20-J Chamber of Commerce and Ad Clab. HOTEL BEN LOMOND Com at you arc T. E. Fitzgerald, HtU en of the ounted by Captain G. Elliott -Nightingale Copyrtaht, WNU AND SO ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER, UNTIl WHEN old Tim Jillis blew his brains out with a rifle, he also set off a box of fireworks that jumped about hither and yon and hit quite a few people. In fact, the body of the suicide was barely cold in death before an unsuspecting citizen citi-zen was tarred and feathered, and the latter evpnt caused another explosion ex-plosion because it forced a sergeant to desert from the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. -At any rate, let's get back to the beginning. Tim Jillis was a lazy, good-for-nothing sort, and a booze-fighter, to boot, all of which kept his hardworking hard-working wife, and his two fine children chil-dren on the outermost edge of destitution desti-tution and want. Neighbors did all they could, of course, for the sake of the youngsters, and just when things were about as bad as they could be, Mrs. Jillis had a bright idea. She would change the house a bit and take in a lodger, someone who would pay for good food and a warm room. With the income from the boarder, she could make it all right, she felt sure, and soon a Charlie Brown was part of the household. Now Brown was a sober, hard-working chap, and when he saw the general gen-eral economic conditions in the Jillis Jil-lis household, he dug down into his pockets and provided plenty of food, some necessary clothing, and a nice pile of fuel. Naturally, the heart of Mrs. Jillis was about to burst from sheer gratitude, grat-itude, and she put herself out to make Brown feel right at home. His slightest wish was law, and the Jillises began to emerge from destitution desti-tution to a fair measure of comfort and well-being. All of this, strange to say, aroused the anger and displeasure dis-pleasure of the no-account husband and father who spent his days in local barrooms bewailing the fact that Brown the lodger was stealing his wife and gradually breaking up the Jillis home. Instead of shooting the lodger, as most people had expected, Jillis stuck the rifle barrel in his own mouth, pressed the trigger, and scattered his brains all over the bedroom walls. The coroner and the Mounted Police soon realized that it was a plain case of suicide, and the case would have been closed right then had not a gang of half a dozen masked men barged into the Jillis home and seized Charlie Brown, the lodger. They took him to a lonely spot and there they tarred and feathered him from cap to boots. They drove him back to the tiny settlement and threw him into the lobby (?) of the local hotel which was hardly more than an ordinary six or seven-room house. Hours later Brown found his way back to his room in the Jillis home, and about the only clue he had as to the identity of his kidnapers was that all the talking and all the orders or-ders had been spoken by a man with a distinctive western drawl such as was common along the Montana boundary. Things quieted down, and Brown stayed on at the Jillis place. And then, months later he was sitting on a hotel veranda in Lethbridge, Alberta, Al-berta, when his ears caught up a voice that he would never forget as long as he lived. He knew he had found the leader of the kidnap gang, and in half an hour the owner of the distinctive western drawl was breaking down under stiff questioning question-ing on the part of Men of the Mounted. Mount-ed. Later he admitted leading the gang, and was held for trial. And then, while assembling all the necessary nec-essary data and information for the trial, the inspector of the Mounted Police in the district made a most startling and distressing discovery. pFive of the six gangsters were ac counted for, and the inspector, while moving heaven and earth to find out the identity of the sixth, found that the much-wanted lawbreaker was one of his own sergeants, a man with years of creditable service behind be-hind him, and a man who had always al-ways been above reproach in every way. At any . rate, perhaps a bit enraged by this discovery, the inspector in-spector did all he could to make a strong unshakable case against the sergeant. But, as the days passed, it appeared that the inspector was more hell-bent on "getting" that sergeant than anyone else, and just when conditions looked bad for the three-striper, he turned up missing. The fact is, the tiny settlement was loyal to the sergeant, and while the inspector was fussing and fuming fum-ing over evidence and court procedure pro-cedure the sergeant's many friends dug into their pockets, made up a sizable purse of money, and staked the sergeant to a midnight getaway on one of the finest and fastest horses in the region. Moreover, while the inspector was looking up the law on this and that, a fair-sized fair-sized escort of mounted citizens were escorting the sergeant over the border into Montana. And . . . that's how one thing led to another, until . . . well ... it was difficult to find out just where this all started and when and where it finished. At any rate, it added a few gray hairs to the inspector's scalp. No doubt about that. , ,.. . ,,..,, ,., ,..,..-.11.11. ay-s r.y ff' You Are Practically Paying ; - w For Electric Water Heating!,, L,: ; . It 1 r - f n 'ft If youll odd up the cost of iuel used to heat water during summer months with a monkey stove or in a tea kettle, then add the cost ol heating water with a coil in your furnace (which increases fuel consumption con-sumption 20) during the heating season youll find that in actual dollars and cents it amounts to approximately ap-proximately the low cost of Automatic Electric Hot Water service. You know, of course, what a comfort and convenience it Is to have an abundance of hot water at a turn of the tap anytime day or night. So why not have it? You're already paying for it. Let us give you full particulars. Immediately, youll decide that never again will you run up and down the cellar steps, nor other with matches, soot, ashes. COME IN - LETS TALK IT OVER 8njoij fif&Ji JjuJinq utfik CKfap SlecbiXcitq mi mm mmm m ON THE SIDELINES If you incorrigibly lose umbrellas, buy cheap ones. Some spend a lifetime being popular. pop-ular. It is, in fact, a life work. 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