Show WHAT to EAT and a WHY q C. C Houston Goudiss Offers New Y Years Year's Resolutions Concerning Foods and Nutrition Suggests How to Help Make Your Family Healthier and Happier Dy By C. C HOUSTON GOUDISS I IT T HAS been customary for a long time to mark the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- i ning of a new year with the ringing of bells with wilh merrymaking merrymaking merry merry- making and with the hope expressed to ones one's friends that they hey will enjoy greater health happiness and prosperity inthe In inthe the he forthcoming twelve months Though greetings are usually exchanged in a n spirit of gayety the occasion frequently does as indeed it should have lave an on undercurrent of so- so so 4 t For it is quite fitting that hat we should view the close of one year and ond the beginning of another as both an Ending and a n Beginning even e though we recognize that life lile goes along alone in an nn nj unbroken stream The magic hour of midnight ma may well i mark the end of certain of our mistakes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes and the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning of greater wisdom in acting thinking and liv liv- ing It seems to me that the week in which we celebrate New Years Year's is a particularly appropriate time for mothers to resolve to take stock of the program of daily living that they hey have outlined for their families families families lies and if necessary to alter it so that every member may gain a amore amore amore more generous share of well-being well and contentment Questions Question for a Homem Homemaker er erI I I believe that every homemaker owes it to her family to pause for fora a few moments at this season to look backwards along the road that she and her family have traveled traveled trav trav- eed in recent months Have you taken advantage of the knowledge offered by modern nutritional science Can you conscientiously con- con say with conviction that you have given your husband and children all the different food elements that are arc necessary for buoyant radiant health If you have grown as you should in the past year and no homemaker who is doing a really first class job ever remains static i she moves with the times then it is inevitable that there has been a gradual change in the character char acter of the food that just you have put on your table three times a day But can you feel confident those meals have been right in every respect Have they included the necessary protein fats carbohydrates carbo surbo- hydrates Have they included at al least 12 13 minerals the six known I vitamins and sufficient bulk or cellulose to help maintain regular health habits Time to fo T Take Tako e Inventory Do not be too loo discouraged if you cannot answer yes to all aU of these questions because the chances are that many other homemakers may also find it necessary to give a partially negative answer 1 Both Bothers doth ers era especially arc are busy people I and many of them feel that it is is difficult to keep pace as they would like to do with the fast- fast moving science of nutrition Now during this week which brings us the beginning of a new year now v is a time time alter after taking inventory of what you have or have not done done to to look forward to survey the road that lies ahead Before Defore every wife and mother hangs the curtain of the future that will be slowly drawn aside revealing the destiny of hers herself ell her husband and her children as the future becomes the present as tomorrow becomes today And as your loved ones travel the road of life Ufe it Is you ou who have haveIt It ii in fn your power to help them attain attain at at- tain strong vigorous bodies alert efficiently working minds Now is the time for you to determine determine de de- termine terming to make malte the power of food their power so that they shall not flag in their travels along the high high- way but draw new strength for each days day's journey every time they sit down at your table si sit down as I have said before to Life The Tho Tremendous Power of Food What they are going to be tomorrow tomorrow to to- tomorrow morrow is indeed influenced by what they eat today for there never was a truer statement than thai that man is what he eats And Am that does not mean that physical prowess and mental superiority may result only when the table is set with luxuries I On the con con- r MI Crary malnutrition which means Inot I not tot necessarily under nutrition but 1 Improper nutrition Is found in the homes of the wealthy as fis well as 1 F In n the tho homes of the a eged The Tho power of food Is de- de 1 not so 10 much by what you ou spend as by what you fOU choose One need not spend a great deal t for or food to provide the milk and If other dairy products fruits and 1 vegetables that should be consumed consumed consumed con con- l 1 in abundance nce There is always always always al al- ways evaporated milk for those who do not care to buy bottled 2 milk or who prefer to use it as n a n M supplement to bottled milk And f since large numbers of fruits and vegetables arc are now in season practically practically tic ally throughout the year it is almost always possible to choose u varieties of these mineral mineral- and vitamin-bearing vitamin foods that are arc in inexpensively inexpensively in in- expensively priced Be It If Resolved I should therefore like to urge uric every homemaker to make at least one New Years Year's resolution to resolve that she will wUl build her family diet in 1939 first of all allaround allaround around the protective foods milk eggs fruits and vegetables It will be my privilege each week to help interpret for you the amazing discoveries of nutritional science and to show how you can cane utilize the new newer r knowledge of nutrition nutrition nu nu- nu to help increase the mental I and physical efficiency of your family f Together then let us resolve to travel alon along alone the highroad of well- well being in 1939 1 I Questions Answered I I Mrs Irs K You l You should include in- in elude clude at least two rich sources of oft each of the tho vitamins in your menus every day It is also Important important im Im- to servo serve some raw food food- k kas as for for example a salad in planning planning planning plan plan- ning the diet of persons in normal l health Use fruits liberally and provide a pint of milk for each each adult a quart for every child either as a beverage or in cooked dishes O C o C. 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