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Show Doctor in the Kitchen" by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council NUTRITION A LA CARTE Ever think of a salad as the main course of a meal? It can be delicious, satisfying, and very nutritious. Particularly for luncheon lunch-eon for businessmen or women who have to return to their desk and do an afternoon's work. Try salads with cottage cheese, seafood, sea-food, or tossed vegetables. Orj strippings of cheese, ham, turkey tur-key or egg wedges. The three methods for cooking cook-ing vegetables to conserve as much of their nutrients as possible pos-sible are steaming, pressure cooking, or cooking quickly in a covered pan with only enough water to prevent .scorching. You'll save vitamin .C if you cook vegetables only until they are done no longer. Your best sources of protein include eggs, meat, milk, cheese, poultry, fish plants and their seeds such as heans, peas nuts and cereal grains. Vary these foods as basics in your meals and you'll get many other nutrients, too such as carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals and you'll bo well on your way toward good nutrition. It is commonplace to say that water is essential in all animal and plant nutrition. Still, many people don't think of water as a juttrient, along with such sub- drates, fate, vitamins, and ml erals. J?ut them all together, how ever, and add water, and yoa hae the six vital nutrients that we must have to be healthy audi to survive. Your teeth are living stro tures, even though portions of them are not The dentine and enamel are inert But your teeth also contain blood vessels and nerves. Also, your jaw bone is a living structure, dependent upon good nutrition, especially calcium, phosphorus, and vita min D. These nutrients are plenfr iful in milk. The best -diet for arthritis 29 simply a good, balanced diet of a wide variety of foods from tha four food groups the meat group, the milk group, fruits and vegetables, and . enriched at whole grain breads and cereals. No food causes or cures arthritis. But good general nutrition and sufficient rest will help yoa manage your arthritis more &oo cessfully. IE it weren't for ccreab ot civilization would be rtireb? different. The cultivation of eo reals put an end to nomadic life, With grains they could grow and store, the civilizations of Egypt and Babylon came into bein& People could stay and prospet in one place, and devdona tb& |