Show i Stay Y Youthful I ol v Your great desire is to live Jive a long useful life liCe all the while looking and feeling far fai a l' l younger than your our years rears Certainly CerI I tamly this is a goal worth aiming at But Bul are arc you prepared prepared pre pre- pared to abide by br the Commandments Commandments Com Com- Because everything everything every every- thing worth attaining ng has hasa a aprice a price And the price of a long youthful life is planned diet No more haphazard eating no more pandering to a finiCky finicky finicky fin fin- icky appetite no more plundering plundering dering you body's health with indifferent and unwise selections selections of substandard ta foods At first the careful and judicious judicious ju ju- ici us selection of youth pro foods will be a novelty no you'll enjoy But Bul after the no nov city elly provided by a new regi regi- man nian begins to wear off and you ou are arc tempted to lapse into the oh its it's too loo much trouble kind of oC defeatist thinking Yet I pr promise mise you ou that once you have successfully weathered ered this period of temptation to return to the old haphazard of or subconsciously subconsciously subconsciously way eating you'll begin accepting or rejecting each food on the basis of or its contribution t o 0 your youthfulness and long life with the same skill as that exercised by a trained n nutritionist Instinctively el you will avoid the old gooey meals with which you ou formerly former former- ly insulted your our od b-od body I FOOD COM COMMANDMENTS The food commandments 3 1 am going to lay down for you ou are aro those that will afford aCCord you ou taste pleasures pleasures' and ad adventures en tures lures in good eating the like of oC which you OU have seldom enjoyed en en- enjoyed joyed before Lets Let's take these six general rules commandments I have called them one by byone byone byone one in detail as the they pertain to your our goal of or attaining a along along along long youthful enjo enjoyable able life liCe My I first commandment Is high grade proteins In iii ance The protein stor story has been developed rather full fully for you ou in the preceding chapters so there is no need to repeat at length the fact that protein is essential for feeding repairing repairing repairing repair repair- ing and rebuilding g your muscles mus mus- cles Iles nerves tissues glands and vital organs In case of illness or convalescence convalescence conva conva- protein is the ie re- re builder of oC your our h health INSURANCE FIRMS JS CARE tARE Life insurance companies have an unsentimental dol dol- lars cents interest in keeping keep keepS ing you well and alive for a along along long Jong time For that reason they issue series of oC j pamphlets and booklets loaded with sane advice on how to avoid illness and carl early death I quote from one of the pamphlets directed at the over and group An ample nutritious diet is as important to adults as asto asto asto to growing children Learn to like and to choose foods that are good for you Well bal anted meals of vegetables meats meals and fresh fruits are arc health building health building meals The impression impression im im- im that people in the older ages should avoid cating eating eating eat cat ing meat is entirely erron erron- In fact sonic some diseases are due to lo lack of protein which is is is- contained in such foods as meat eggs and cheese The pamphlet then goes on onto onto onto die to sa say that older people aside from accidents and senility senility se se- only from blood disorders disorders disorders ders cancer circulatory circulator disorders disorders dis- dis orders heart disease kidney disease or stroke or 01 U Lets Let's see what nutritional science has been doing to fight these disease enemies of your our youth First well we'll take blood disorders disorders dis dis- orders orders- One of the most common com corn cornmon mon of these in persons past 40 is anemia The paleness wl which ch has come to be he associated associated with growing older is often often often of of- ten nothing except a visible symptom of oC nutritional anem ia Theres There's no reason why a person shouldn't possess a healthy glowing complexion in later years provided his blood is rich with red coloring matter But healthy blood cannot cannot can can- not be bc formed without protein anymore than it can be maintained maintained main main- without the minerals minerals iron and copper You You cant can't build good red blood on tea and toast Because nutritional anemia is so widespread among all sugar starch eaters caters but butmore butmore butmore more particularly in those persons persons persons per per- sons past 40 40 I want to lo dwell dwella a moment on this blood disorder disorder der which in itself docs does not not kill but which the paves wa way for more serious diseases Anemia at an any age and particularly after 40 cannot he be shrugged off as not serious serious serious ser ser- ious for anemia in middle life liCe is an ailment that can shorten your our years of useful vigorous Jiving living And certainly the mind of a person suffering from nutritional anemia is not equipped to cope with the bewildering bewildering bewildering be be- personal s t- t ments that often must be faced laced and accepted after the fourth decade If you rou suspect that you JOu may be anemic go goat goat goat at once to your our doctor or to a reliable laboratory and have havea a blood count taken If a blood count reveals re that your our blood contains too few red cells and has a low percentage percentage percentage per per- of ot hemoglobin that is it is not red enough then you ou should act at once to restore restore re IC re- re store your blood to normal How By immediately converting converting con con- to lo protein high meals those containing lean meat liver kidney heart dark meat meal of poultry oysters eg g s s. s cheese an and milk products by eating ealing generously of oC rich iron apricots molasses prunes raisins whole grains beets beels parsley radishes citrus fruits and pineapple to mention but bul buta bula a few of or the foods with wilh the highest iron content MINERAL l SUPPLEMENT As a safety measure your doctor w will 11 probably also prescribe prescribe pre pre- scribe a mineral supplement containing organic iron to rebuild rebuild re re- re I build your blood to normal as quickly as possible As an added iron tonic Ionic which you ou can prepare for yourself at nt home buy some apricots usually found only in health food stores If apricots cant can't be had then the next best fruits in order are dried peaches or raisins Put a handful of the fruit in a glass cover with lukewarm water stir then let stand overnight Next morning stir the mixture again drain off the water waler into inlo another glass adding to it one tablespoon tablespoon table table- spoon of oC pure unbleached mo mo- lasses Prepare and nd drink this iron tonic Ionic several times limes a week the fruit Luit should also be eaten I have of course been I speaking exclusively of simpie simple sim pIe iron-deficiency iron anent anem i a which comprises about 95 Percent per percent percent cent of oC all anemia cases Next week Proper vitamins essential elements clements to good health how the they back hack up proteins pro- pro |