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Show WHAT TO EAT AND WHY Food Provides the Key to Mental and Physical Power You Can Be Strong, Beautiful, Wise, Rear Healthy Children Only If You Know How to Combine the Right Food Materials in the Diet By C. HOUSTON GOUDISS 6 East 39th Street. New York. SINCE the world began, food has been man's first consideration. con-sideration. For it he has fought and died. To find it he has traveled over great continents and braved unknown dangers. His quest for food has changed the map of the world and colored the history of nations. But in all of these historic struggles, he has been motivated solely by the desire to get enough food to satisfy hunger. Today, actual hunger is rare. But hundreds of thousands of people starve in the midst of plenty because they do not realize the tremendous power of food for good or for evil. They do not realize that as a man eats, so he is, and that his choice of food materials gives or takes away the power to live vigorously to think clearly to feel warmly to be strong, healthy and wise. It can be truly said that your food is your fate. It has the power to shape your body to make it strong and beautiful, beau-tiful, or weak and ugly. It has the power to influence your language, your gait, your tone of voice, in short your life. With the right food,, life becomes be-comes a glorious adventure, for it increases your leadership, leader-ship, intensifies your magnetic mag-netic qualities, strengthens your morale, and increases your physical physi-cal defenses and resistance. Without With-out it, one drags through miserable miser-able days never realizing even half of his potential mental and physical powers. Food the Fuel of Life. The human body is a machine, far more complex than any machine ma-chine devised by the mind of man. Food is the fuel which runs this amazing machine. Food is also the material used to repair worn-out worn-out parts, and to keep the intricate intri-cate mechanism in good working order. The body machine cannot be run efficiently without proper food fuel any more than a car could be run without gas, or a house could be heated without oil, coal or wood. Food also has the power to speed up or slow down the workings of the mind. It likewise influences the slate of our nerves, the warmth of our affections, the type of characters we possess. Finally, the power to have strong, healthy children is based on proper food. And nutritional scientists have discovered that the wrong food can even take away from us the greatest blessing bless-ing that Nature has bestowed our earthly immortality. For it can deprive us of the ability to bear children who will carry on after we are gone. Six Groups of Food Substances. What food substances are necessary neces-sary to build and maintain top health to develop the greatest physical and mental power? There are six groups of food substances sub-stances which must be included in the balanced diet which promises increased health, happiness and longevity: 1. PROTEINS which build and repair body tissues. These are found in such foods as milk, eggs, meats, fish, cheese and nuts. 2. FATS which yield heat and energy. The fats are represented rep-resented by butter, cream, oils and the fat of meats. 3. CARBOHYDRATES the starches and sugars. These also supply heat and energy, and are found chiefly in such foods as bread, potatoes, cereals cere-als and sweets. 4. MINERALS which build, repair, protect and regulate. Among the minerals which are absolutely necessary to health and vigor are calcium, phosphorus, phos-phorus, iron, copper, iodine, sulphur, manganese, magnesium, magne-sium, sodium and potassium. These are found in varying amounts in milk, eggs, fruits, vegetables, whole grain cereals cere-als and meats. 5. VITAMINS which are necessary nec-essary for body regulation, and as a protection against dread deficiency diseases. Six have been discovered to date A, B, C, D, E and G. 6. WATER which is a part of all body tissue and must be present in order to have the other food elements function properly. The ideal dietary is one that includes in-cludes a correct proportion of the different food elements required to supply bodily needs without any of them being supplied in excess, or in insufficient amounts. Danger in Omitting One Essential To illustrate how important it is that not one of the necessary food substances be omitted, let me tell you how an eminent bio-chemist proved in his experimental laboratory, lab-oratory, in one of our leading universities, uni-versities, that the difference between be-tween stupidity and genius depended de-pended upon the presence or absence ab-sence of one vitamin. He placed a pregnant animal upon a diet adequate in every respect, re-spect, except that it lacked one of the six vitamins. As soon as her young were born and weaned, they were fed a completely adequate ade-quate diet. Then the scientist tested the mentality of the young animals. He wanted to find out whether or not their mental power had been injured in any way by the fact that their mother during pregnancy preg-nancy had been deprived of one vital food element. So he put them in a runway. To get out of this and reach a tasty morse! at the other end they had to make their way through a series of passages. He had already made this same test on the same type of animals born of properly fed mothers. He knew treat it i never took them more than ; 25 trials to learn their way out.; of the maze. Most of them had gotten out after 15 to 18 attempts: But what lack of skill was shown by the animals whose mother had been deprived of proper food! The stupidity of these pathetic little creatures was unbelievable'. Some of them never learned to thread the maze and reach their goal, even after as many as 250 trials. They were being given at the time everything every-thing that was necessary to their diet. But they had entered life with minds totally unequipped to cope with the world because their mother had not been properly prop-erly fed before they were born. Food Can Make or Mar. This is a striking example of the power of food to make or mar existence. I could cite hundreds of other laboratory experiments, many of which have been confirmed con-firmed by clinical experience. Nor is this power of food to affect af-fect mental activity confined to prenatal life. Even if a child enters en-ters this world with a strong body and a clear mind the wrong food during childhood has the power to wreck health. Investigation after investigation, investiga-tion, by leading specialists throughout the country, has proven prov-en that a surprising percentage of retarded children those who cannot can-not keep up with their school grades do not really have inferior infe-rior minds. They only seem stupid stu-pid because the action of their minds is clogged and slowed down by sluggish, under-fed bodies. Physical fitness is a far greater asset than material possessions. For in times of stress and trouble, those who can stand up under the physical strain win the battle. For those who collapse, all is lost. Every wife and mother is therefore there-fore faced with the tremendous responsibility of keeping her family fam-ily mentally and physically fit. Her husband must have the right kind of food in order to earn a living. Her own diet must be adequate and well-balanced if she is to have the energy, wisdom, wis-dom, and patience required of a i i v - v 1 C. Houston Goudiss, outstanding food authority, author, and radio lecturer, author of "What to Eat and Why." He knows food from soil to serving, from table to tissue. tis-sue. Watch for his articles each week. mother at all hours of the day. Her baby will not grow into a i healthy man or woman unless he or she has the right nourishment from the moment of birth. And school children can't keep up with I their classes without the right food. I If you will follow this series of articles, and put into, practice the principles of correct eating that I advocate, I can promise that you will increase both mental and physical efficiency, and as a result, re-sult, achieve greater health and happiness for every member of your family. Food Affects Your Body and Mind Each morning when you awake, a new life is ahead of you. Whether that day and the days to follow will be better or worse than those that went before, depends de-pends largely upon what you eat. For nothing short of a miracle is performed at every meal. Within a few hours the bread, meat, vegetables and liquids that you swallow are transformed into your personality. They begin to think, feel and act. They become YOU. What was food yesterday, today is carrying on the important impor-tant business of the world. Each meal that you eat helps or hinders hin-ders the efficiency and ease with which these various duties are performed That is why it is true that as you eat, so you are. And llutt is why 1 say that three times a day, at your table, you SIT DOWN TO LIFE. WNU. C. Houston Goudiss 1938. |