Show W HAT AT to EAT eai and almod WHY C houston goudiss offers new year s resolutions concerning foods and nutrition suggests how f to 0 help make your family healthier and happier by C HOUSTON GOUDISS IT T HAS been customary for a long time to mark the beginning of a new year with the ringing of bells with merrymaking and with the hope expressed to ones friends that they will enjoy enoy greater health happiness and prosperity in the forthcoming twelve months though greetings are usually exchanged in a spirit of gayety gaiety the occasion frequently does as indeed it should have an undercurrent of so lemnitz for it is quite fitting that we should view the close of one year and the beginning of another as both an ending and a beginning even though we recognize that life goes along in an unbroken stream the magic hour of midnight may well mark the end of certain of our mis misi i takes and the be ginning of greater wisdom in acting thinking and liv ing it seems to me that the week in which we celebrate new year years s is a particularly appropriate time for mothers to resolve to take stock of the program of daily living that they have outlined for their farm lies and if necessary to alter it so that every member may gain a more generous share of well being and contentment questions for a homemaker 1 I believe that every homemaker owes it to her family to pause for a few moments at this season to look backwards along the road that she and her family have trav aled in recent months have you taken advantage of the knowledge offered by modern nutritional 7 9 can you con say with conviction that you have given your husband and children all the different food elements that are necessary for buoyant radiant health if you have grown as yon you should in the past year and no homemaker who is doing a really first class job ever remains static she moves with the times then it is inevitable that there has been a gradual change in the char acter of the food that you have put on your table three times a day hut but can you feel confident those meals have been right in every respect 9 have they included the necessary protein fats carbo hydrates 9 have they included at least 12 minerals the six known vi vitamins tamms and sufficient bulk or cellulose to help maintain regular health time to fo take inventory do not be too discouraged if you cannot answer yes to all of these questions because the chances are that many other homemakers may also find it necessary to give a partially negative answer moth ers especially are busy people and many of them feel that it is difficult to keep pace as they would like to do with the fast moving science of nutrition now during this week which brings us the beginning of a new year now is a time after taking inventory of what you have or have not done to look forward to survey the road that lies ahead before every wife and mother hangs the curtain of the future that will be slowly drawn aside revealing the destiny of herself 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 it is ts yon you who have it in your power to help them attain strong vigorous bodies alert efficiently working minds now is the time for you to de termine to make the power of food their power so that they shall not flag in their travels along the high way but draw new strength for each days day s journey every time they sit down at your table sit down as I 1 have said before to life I 1 the tremendous power of food what they are going to be to morrow is indeed influenced by what they eat today for there never was a truer statement than that man is what he eats and that does not mean that physical prowess and mental superiority may result only when the table is set with luxuries on the con arary malnutrition which means not necessarily under nutrition but improper nutrition is found in the homes of the wealthy as well as in the homes of the underprivileged the power of food Is determined terni ter mined med not so much by what you spend as by what you choose one need not spend a great deal for food to provide the milk and other dairy pr products fruits and vegetables that should be consumed in abundance there is always evaporated milk for those who do not care to buy bottled milk or who prefer to use it as a supplement to bottled milk and since large numbers of fruits and vegetables are now in season practically throughout the year it is almost always possible to choose varieties of these mineral and vitamin bearing foods that are inexpensively priced be it Resol resolved I 1 should therefore like to urge every homemaker to make at least one new years resolution to resolve that she will build her family diet in 1939 first of all 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 utilize the newer knowledge khow ledge of nutrition to help increase the mental and physical efficiency of your family together then let us resolve to travel along the highroad of well being in 1939 questions answered mrs H me N you should include at least two rich sources of each of the vitamins in your menus every day it is also important to serve some raw food as for example a salad in planning the diet of persons in normal health use fruits liberally and provide a pint of milk for each adult a quart for every child either as a beverage or in cooked dishes D C houston goudiss 1839 1939 43 |