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Show ; Start Protecting Vitality, With Your Next Meal By LELORD KORDEL Number Twenly-Four of a Series In planning your Eat-and-Grow-Younger program of high-protein foods, I have tried to keep in mind the only important nutritional taboos which have a basis in scientific sci-entific fact. Following are some do's and don't-do's: 1. Avoid combining high-proteins (red meats, poultry, poul-try, fish, eggs, cheese, milk) with high-starches (rice, macaroni, spaghetti, white bread, rich desserts) at the same meal. And if, for some valid reason, you are forced to eat more high-starch meals than high-protein, then by all means take liberal amounts of supplemental vitamins, since the more starch you eat, the more your body is depleted of the B-complex factors that have the specific task of postponing the day when you must say farewell to youth. 2. Avoid combining pure fats with high starches in the same meal. For instance bacon (almost 100 percent fat, and of the wrong kind too), fried potatoes, cream, white sugar, white bread and jelly are a rather common breakfast break-fast menu in some homes, yet nothing could be worse nutrition. It's absolutely impossible to plan a meal that doesn't include some carbohydrate with its proteins, or some fat with its carbohydrate. But the thing to keep in mind is this: A meal should be predominantly either protein or carbohydrate. When it is predominantly protein, it should include only those natural starches found in vegetables, fruits, milk and honey or unrefined raw sugar. This means, as one example, omitting a rice or macaroni dish and pie with your steak, substituting the carbohydrates to be found in a green salad, a cooked vegetable and a fruit or custard dessert. STIMULATE DIGESTION Start your meals with fruit, a cup of vegetable soup, a bouillon or meat broth. Why? Because fresh fruits, together with meat extracts or the bouillon made by simmering meats and vegetables together, are rich in certain extractive substances that help to excite the gastric glands into producing the very powerful hydrochloric hyd-rochloric acid which is essential for thorough digestion of a protein meal. This is a timely spot to bring up the subject of chew-1 chew-1 ing. A lot of false information and erroneous advice has I been handed out to the publid for years on the subject of "proper mastication of food." Once and for all, I would like to clear up these mistaken ideas, and present the facts. In brief, here is your "chewing chart." see VITALITY back page |