Show I 1 A A J B A A T ra R B B 3 A A ta I 1 and WN I 1 IV WHA W V f M B I 1 I 1 B 8 JA I 1 II 11 I 1 to TU I 1 y L eaas B oat A B I 1 I 1 1 d fruton ton q aucta bains 0 aal yal fi I t 0 road fads and fallacies nationally known food authority exola explains i I 1 ns how they may endanger health by C HOUSTON GOUDISS 6 east st new york city AS SCIENCE and civilization have progressed painstaking in investigators tors have sought to replace ignorance w with th knowledge to substitute truth for superstition but in spite of their efforts our eating habits are still influenced by a multitude of food fads and fancies which should have no place in this enlightened age sonic some of these are ara harmless others may endanger health and the homen homemaker taker must team learn to distinguish between fact and fancy j fish Is not a brain food one of the most persistent fallacies is the notion that certain kinds of food are especially ally beneficial for certain parts of the body many people believe that fish is a brain food and celery a nerve tonic lettuce is thought to be a soporific none of these things Is true the idea regarding elsh probably a arose because ash i contains phosphorus and the I 1 brain also contains I 1 phosphorus 11 how 0 w I 1 simple it would be I 1 if one could increase I 1 I 1 brain power I 1 I 1 merely by aati eating 9 I 1 elsh un unfortunately fortuna ei there is bothi nothing g 1 1 I 1 to I 1 tl tho the bra brain n I 1 I 1 like other parts of the body requires a bala balanced aced diet no i case has ever been reported of a man soothing the irritated nerves of his wife by feeding tier her celery and as for lettuce it is a fine source of minerals vitamins and gentle roughage but it does not contain any narcotic drug that induces sleep M other fallacies disproved science has exploded many ammon notions about vegetables which may change your ideas of what is best to buy and eat many homemakers prefer lettuce that is light green in color and they believe that string beans which snap are superior in quality but it has been demonstrated that deep green lettuce is much hicl richer ier in vitamins and that a snap in string beans merely indicates that the beans have been kept pt in a cold moist place false notions about fruit alcore A score of superstitions cling to the eating of fruits there is a false notion that acid tasting fruits cause or aggravate rheumatism b because e ause they produce acidity the truth is that most fruits regardless gard less of their acid taste leave an alkaline ash following digestion one often hears that fruit should not be taken at the same time as milk bl because cause the fruit acids will cause the milk to curdle but the fact is that milk is always curdled in the stomach by the hydrochloric 0 acid not necessary to sip milk another false idea is the widespread notion that milk must be sipped slowly or irwill it will be difficult to digest this has been refuted by a widely known investigator who made many tests one day he fed a man a pint of milk in 10 seconds the next day the same nian man was fed the same amount of milk in 10 minutes on both occasions the contents of the were examined a halt hour later it was discovered that the milk which was drunk in 10 seconds had formed smaller curds than the milk which was sipp sipped ed in 10 minutes and in both cases the curds were of practically the same consistency sis tency water wafer with meals it is widely held that water wafer should not bo be taken with meals the argument being that it dilutes the gastric juice and thus interferes with digestion this sounds logical and many people have been fooled but the truth of the matter Is that water stimulates the flow ot of the digestive jul juices ces at and id careful research has established that normally water taken with meals in reasonable quantities aids digestion 4 danger of half truths the most insidious food fallacies are those these which contain some portion of truth for example the belief that cooked fruit is more wholesome than raw fruit it is truo true that cooking increases tile the digestibility of some fruits and also has a sterilizing effect on the other hand most fruits ire are easily digested in the raw state are more palatable and richer in vitamins I 1 A widespread belief which has a small portion but only a small portion of truth is that whole wheat bread is vastly superior to white bread whole wheat bread contains more minerals vitamins and roughage than white bread but the minerals and vitamins lacking in white bread can easily be supplied by other common foods and there is no justification for going to the extreme of omitting white bread entirely from tile the diet fad diets lack balance F far ar more harmful than the fallacies regarding individual foods are the fad diets constantly put forth by those who seek to ex the horne homemakers makers desire for or dietetic knowledge foods not incompatible A fad diet which has gained a large number of adherents in n recent years is based on the notion that certain foods notably starches and proteins are incompatible and should not be consumed at the same meal mal because they cannot be digested at tile the same time it la Is interesting to note that this fad has been condemned dem by the medical profession and that a physician of the highest standing has proved clinically that starches and proteins do not interfere with one another in the stomach the fallacy of this theory is further appreciated when one realizes that there arefes arc few pure proteins or pure carbohydrates most foods containing varying proportions of protein carbohydrate and fat such foods as dried peas and beans and whole grain cereals I 1 I 1 aro are you I 1 you can i REDUCE safely surely comfortably Ws thit frit free Av bulletin Ileth offered ay h C Ilos stoa slon goriss Gou iss read reader erg orthis of this newspaper are invited to write toc to ci houston goudiss at 6 last east street street new york city for his bulletin which shows how to deduce by the 81 safe fe and sane method of counting calories a tin the sta U 1 is con liddle uvah a chart uarl C ei cj 4 alt it be commonly nr foot and I 1 contain 11 1 11 11 il menu ill ill m ill can N uis 1 6 as s a to la InAr lir il ami nd tall reduction i contain a substantial percentage 0 of both starch and protein I 1 dangers of fasting F fasting asting is urged by somo some fad F dests as a means of detoxifying detoxify ing the bod body advocates of this practice clarl claim that it is natures method of house housecleaning cleaning As a matter of fact fasting for ony any length of time may be dangerous to health because it may result in the accumulation of iacoi incomplete oxidation products of fat and tile tho development of acidosis homemakers must put aside superstitions half truths and food fallacies it if they are arc to nourish their families properly put your faith only in established food facts remember that upon your knowledge and breadth of vision depend to a great degree not only tile the health but the happiness of your family |