Show Let Our Motto Be GOOD HEALTH I 1 BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD ARNOW Professor of or Bifi lon T and andI Medicine Median or of Illinois I Coli Collett o of Medicine Medici DIET FOR OLDSTERS t AltE now at last beginning WB V vu V Y to think ot of diet as liS a preventive of ot the degenerative Te diseases cf ot old er life lite the diseases of ot the stomach heart beart kidney and pancreas These diseases disposes of ot older life lire are rapidly becoming be be- becoming coming more of ot a problem as our life expectancy Increases For In stance In Illinois Illinoia In 1910 1010 only 32 per cent of ot the population wn was overs over s 33 years of ot age are In WO 1910 the number was 40 per cent cent cent-a a gain Illa of ot 8 per cent nt In 20 years In saying diet however howe 1 haste hastel to add that this article Is not going to present spinach as the cure all for tor these older elder diseases Older persons person may eat spinach If It there be such lIuch as 81 like It but older people thank goodness have no drastic need for tor Ita mines In their diet Its It's th the youngsters up to twenty years of ot age or so who ho must have foods roods that contain contaIn contain con con- tain who who must have their spinach We oldsters done with our growing pains can take It or leave lea It And I for one leave It That's 1 personal of ot course spinach U Is good rood food excellent food rood I recommend It for babies and the teen age group Hut age But age has tins Its compensations Hut But corning coming buck back to our problem No person past e hns has the th physical tone of ot the person of ot ty As our muscles begin to show signs of sagging our hair of or thinning and our skin of ot dr drying so do our Internal organs lose their tone In the same relative e degree Particularly Is this true of ot the digestive dl- dl tract I The he lining of ot the stomach begins to blanch and the stomach secretes less acid add As AI we grow older this deficiency of ot the stomach to secrete acid affects a greater number of ot persons In the forty to forty five year ear age group roup the number Is U 10 per cent to 12 per cent In the fifty year rear group roup 20 per cent In the sixty year ear group 30 per cent I to 40 per cent In the seventy se year group CO per cent For or there has bas been years eara controversy controversy contro contro- versy between practicing physicians and physiologists as to how this trouble trouble trou troll ble wits was to be he corrected The physicians physicians clans believed In ID relieving their patients pa pa- by giving some form of ot acid as a medicine the physiologists laughed at them because they said with lIh two or thre pints II nf or stormier stomach I Juices requiring Ing It at atI I foolish to think that a few drops of ot ott t medicine taken hy by mouth in a glass gIns of or water could do the Job Now v. o In a series of or experiments I we e have hn been carrying on In the th research research re re- search laboratories of ot the University I of 01 Illinois and which we are ure Just now ready to make public we have hare found at last that the physician Is Is' Isrl rl right ht And the physiologist was wrong when he thought stomach acidity was the main factor In digestion It Is II not However the time acidity of ot the stomach ach Juices has a great grent deal to do with the health of ot the Individual For tor Forat at the time laboratory we have hare proved pro thata that a when hen Imen there Is no acid secretion Inthe In Inthe the time stomach the bacteria from the lower Intestines can make their way Into lato the upper Intestines and the stomach and the absorbed products can reach the heart henrt and kidneys And If It these se latter organs are already showing signs of degenerating then the addition of 01 these lower Intestinal products helps In their still further degeneration When the stomach Is acid however how bow ever eer the Intestinal bacteria cannot get et either Into It or the upper In In- It II Is as If Ir the stomach acidIty acid acid- ity made muM a n gate through which the tha Intestinal bacteria cannot pass With this fact known our problem then was to find how to make the stomach Juices acid for anyway two to four hours after arter eating when the major work of or digestion goes on We IVe tried many tl experiments experiments- It was as found that synthetic acids such as 1 I per cent citric lactic hydrochloric sulphuric one one was as gOOt good us as another helped another helped when taken In la water ut at meal time Rut nut who tt wants anta to be taking medicine at every nu meal nl Foods were tried out And And then thea through experiment after arter experiment we proved ed that a n diet rich In acid and poor In to alkaline would do tie o the trick So In the diet for the older person we can forget as a factor Its It's acidity we are after Simply eat plenty plent of or lea lean II meat eggs butter I fresh fruit troll green foods other fresh vegetables fo Go easy casy on potatoes however how how- I ewer ever cereal foods roods pastry other starches sweets all tots except but ter I 1 said green foods fonds you OU notice And spinach Is to a green food So If It you jou oU like It it eat rat It nut Hut there are many mallY other kinds of or green foods food be hlo side spinach There are ago turnip greens and bent beet greens chard asparagus I 1111 lettuce II l celery mind cabbage Sour kraut Is one of ot the best dishes older I persona tJ s can lit eat Sour our kraut Juice is good goad too ton and MO till are tomato lemon I pineapple Juice juh Do Du not drink I I much sweet w ft milk but drink freely or of buttermilk I Of cour course diet will III hot hOI cure curo a seri serl ous vital disease Such diseases need peed the care cart of or a e ph sidan Hut I If It you lune t the time ordinary Intestinal distress that so sus many litany persons past tatty forty ex ex- ex then try Iry out this diet for tor n few rew months And If It you 1 have as 81 yet no IJO symptoms then this diet will m aid old you ou In la preventing them In any oas case 8 the diet will do no harm so 10 It trying O. 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