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KO.,lel Fruit and Nut Salad Mock Turkey with Chestnut Stuffing Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes with Savree

Candied Sweet Potatoes Gravy Whole ICerne/ Corn with Pimiento Thanksgiving Prayer Hot Rolls Watermelon Preserves

God, Thou art gracious. Thou art good, Mock Mincemeat Pie And we thank Thee for our food; May there be enough to share With Thy children everywhere.

Kel-Jel Fruit and Nut Salad 2 Packages of lemon 2 cups of Kel.lel JO or 2 boiling water 12 half cups of pineapple juice 2 cups of slices of pineapple 2 cups broken pecan meats pineapple Pieee, I cup of pecan halves "peeled red.skinned apple wedges I pound of cottage cheese Dissolve endive for garnishing Kel-Jel in Arrange pineapple boiling pieces water and pineapple juice. apple wedge alternating s in bottom of with pecan molds large mold. Fill halves and one half-two thirds large and and full of small small refrigeratorbroken until nut meats. Pout Kel-jel intopieces molds. of pineapple Cool in to loosen from sidesfirm of Unmold molds. Alternateby gently shaking gelatin around large mold with apple individual slices of pineapple. Fill wedges placed molds Mock Turkey cheese and center of between cup Worthington Breading Meal garnish large half ys with endive. mold with cottage a teaspoon monosodium glutamate 2 cons 114 oz .l Chople:si 3 medium-sized onion 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons salod oil 1 clove garlic walnut meats I tablespoon poultry seasoning 1 cup Pecan 3 e ggs cup toasted bread crumbs Grind Choplets, onions, garlic, and nuts. Mix thoroughly with remaining ingredients, saving the white of one egg. Form mixture into shape of turkey, using pieces of straight macaroni fr le bones. Brush turkey with slightly-beaten prinkle with Breading Meal and dot with butter. s egg white, for one and a half hours, basting with Choplet Bake at 375° broth as needed. molded over chestnut stuffing if Note: Turkey may be desired.

I roe Cho Mock Mincemeat Pie plets and broth 3 cups tort apples (diced) 1/4 cup brown sugar I cup currants I 14 cups raisins 3 tablespoons cornstarch di,* 2 solved tablespoons wild in an equal amount plum of water I cup cherries butter l/s 3/. teaspoon cinnamon cup cherry juice V, teaspoon nutmeg Vs cup sugar No pound of butter Grind Choplets 5 and add teaspoons lemon juice lemon juice with one half cup of diced apples the Choplet broth. Mix cherries in halves and add little and to Choplet mixture. Cut water. When aboutadd. dry,Cook currants five minutes in ingredients and add them and a very the rest of the forty-five minutesmix thoroughly. Cook mixture in double boiler crust. to an hour. Then Dot butter on top of filling put filling in unbaked pie Bake in a moderate oven before two pies. adding top crust. (375°-400°) thirty-five minutes. Makes

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November, 1951 Vol. 66, No. 11 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Credit T. DeWITT FOX, M.D., L.M.O.C., Editor DEAR EDITOR: T. K. MARTIN, Art Editor D. A. DELAFIELD, Assistant Editor LIFE & HEALTH is a credit to its editor. C. E. WENIGER, Ph.D., Editorial Consultant . . . Keep up the fine work! Consulting Editors: ROBERT A. HARE, M.D., F.A.C.P.; WALTER E. MACPHERSON, M.D., F.A.C.P. A. SCHWANTES HAROLD M. WALTON, M.D., F.A.C.P.; THEODORE R. FLAIZ, M.D.; J. WAYNE MCFARLAND, M.D. Eli Lilly International Corp. Indianapolis 6, Indiana Contributing Editors: D. Lois Bum,:wrr, R.N. • M. WEBSTER PRINCE, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. ARLIE L. MOON, M.D. • JOHN F. BROWNSBEROER, M.D., F.A.C.S. • CARL J. LARSEN, M.D. LEROY E. COOLIDGE, M.D., F.A.C.S. • HORACE A. HALL, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S. Quick Energy ROGER W. BARNES, M.D., F.A.C.S. • BELLE .W0013 COMSTOCK, M.D. • DANIEL H. KRESS, M.D. CYRIL B. COURVILLE, M.D. • LUCILLE J. GOTHAM, B.A. • GEORGE T. HARDING, M.D., F.A.C.P. DEAR EDITOR: E. HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. • HENRY W. VOLLMER, M.D., F.A.C.S. Now that many housewives with fam- ilies are going into industry, thousands will be undernourished, for they won't take time to feed themselves right. I wrote to your nutrition editor for a high- protein beverage that could be made at FEATURE ARTICLES Page night and put in a thermos bottle for use the next day, one which these women Diabetes and Insulin CHARLES H. BEST, M.D. 8 could drink in midmorning and midafter- noon, because all workers now have ten- Be Careful About Prescriptions minute rest periods at those times. ERWIN E. NELSON, M.D., and WALLACE F. JANSSEN 10 Lucille Gotham willingly answered my problem of nutrition to fight fatigue, Tension Headache HAROLD J. HOXIE, M.D. 12 which so many working women suffer from. Bottled Sunshine RICHARD KOVACS, M.D. 14 You ought to let other LIFE & HEALTH readers know about this splendid service,

Of Course You Can Reduce! ELSPETH BENNETT, M.A. 16 (Turn to page 4)

Why Nose Colds From Cold Feet? CHARLES H. WOLOHON, M.D. 18 THE NOVEMBER COVER Father, We Thank Thee ESTHER L. GARDNER, M.A. 20

FOR MOTHERS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

Family Physician 22 Wings of Health 26 Mother's Counselor 24 Dietitian Says ____ 28 Homemaker Hints 30 MENTAL HYGIENE

Home Treatments 32 Philosophy of Life I 5

After a Hearty Meal 33 Planning Your Garden 31

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NOVEMBER, 1951 3 Readers' Pulse Rivals (Continued from page 3) which your magazine is willing to give to help keep people well. The ALICE S. CUTLER, M.D. Sun Los Angeles, California * Other readers wanting diet information are invited to submit questions or problems of nutrition to the LIFE & In HEALTH dietitian, Miss Lucille Gotham. Address your letters to Nutrition Editor, LIFE & HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C. \ N Ultraviolet For other readers who would be interested in the high-protein drink, we print here Miss Gotham's recipe: Nk (new. Heat one quart of water in a saucepan until lukewarm. Pour cup of powdered skimmed milk on top of the water, and let it stand for a few minutes. Hanow• 5 Blend well with an egg beater. Add four tablespoons of vegetable gelatin and cup of chocolate syrup. Last of all fold in QUARTZ two well-beaten egg whites. This delight- ful tasting drink has 18.75 grams of protein to an 8-ounce glass. That is as much HEALTH protein as a beefsteak contains. If you do not have instant gelatin, dissolve the gelatin first in a little hot water. LAMP The chocolate syrup is made by boiling a quart of water with 2 cups of sugar A Most Vitalizing Health Measure 5 minutes. Add 4 squares of chocolate, a pinch of salt, and 2 level tablespoons of cornstarch dissolved in a little cold water. Cook 3 minutes, stirring all the time. Cool, add vanilla, and keep in a refrigerator. If you wish only a glassful of the drink, take 94 cup water, add one heap- ing tablespoon powdered skimmed milk, NEW, TENDERIZED a level tablespoon gelatin, a tablespoon sugar, and a tablespoon cocoa or shaved 439 chocolate. Heat all in a saucepan, beat- et ing continually until dissolved. Cool, then add, one half to a whole egg white well beaten, a pinch of salt, and vanilla as desired.—ED. used and recommended by the Battle Creek Sanitarium and the Miami Battle Creek Sanitarium Reads Philosophy of Life DEAR EDITOR: • tastes like meat Ultraviolet light bathing under a Hanovia Lamp provides a form of natural energy that Every time I read LIFE & HEALTH I • looks like meat helps maintain the proper calcium and phos- never miss "Philosophy of Life." 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DEAR EDITOR: Send us 10c (to cover mailing and Read "The Magic of Ultraviolet" and I'm happy to tell you I enjoy LIFE & handling costs) and your name and learn how ultraviolet sun baths will HEALTH and am most grateful for it. The address. We'll be happy to send benefit children and adults alike. It's free. articles are fine, and certainly keep one you, free, a regular 10-oz. can of Address Dept. LH-11.51 posted on what is going on in the medical Battle Creek "Steaks." field. H A n o Via Good luck in the continuance of your THE BATTLE CREEK FOOD COMPANY work. MRS. THEODORE LUBITZ Chemical & Mfg. Co., Newark 5, N. J. BATTLE CREEK 35, MICHIGAN Watertown, South Dakota 4 LIFE & HEALTH Because of the limited supply of the drug and the large number of children who had whooping cough, only those who were seriously ill received it. The Journal of the American Medical Association carried a report of the good results obtained in seven children. Written by Dr. Eugene H. Payne, of Parke, Davis and Company, Detroit, it was supplemented with the information given by the Bolivian physicians. Vegetable Diet Adequate Supper: * * * IF YOUR doctor recommends a meat-free Fruits other than citrus Whole-grain zwieback diet, you don't need to worry about becom- Happy Husband? ing anemic. In a recent study by Doctors Vegetable margarine Ola K. Gant and Ernest C. Christensen, Nuts, olives, or avocados, if IF YOU'RE a happy husband, the chances "The Effect of a Diet of Vegetable Foods desired are your wife is unhappy. This is the on the Blood Picture," as published in the At the end of the 12-week period none striking report of Dr. Robert S. Ort, of International Record of Medicine, they of the subjects experienced any increase Wabash College, after a study of 100 mar- found that no signs of anemia or protein in fatigability or loss of pep. ried students and student wives. deficiency occurred in 20 normal subjects It was concluded by these scientists that Your married happiness depends, Dr- maintained on a diet of fruits, vegetables, a vegetable diet is certainly adequate for Ort says, on how nearly you live up to nuts, and grains for a period of 12 weeks. maintaining normal red-blood-cell count, Five of the subjects continued the pro- hemoglobin, and total serum protein. It is gram for a full year with no change in beneficial for lowering blood cholesterol their general health. levels (high blood cholesterol predisposes In fact, many benefits were noted on the to arteriosclerosis). And it usually in- all-vegetable diet. erea,les the vitamin intake. 1. The diet was more laxative, and helped to clear up constipation for some of the subjects. * * * 2. It promoted lower blood cholesterol levels, which may prevent arteriosclerosis. Whooping Cough Remedy 3. It helped some to reduce their weight ONE of the new mold remedies, chloro- to a lower level, but did not cause con- mycetin, has proved itself effective in tinued weight loss. fighting whooping cough. your own standard of a husband or wife. 4. It increased the vitamin and mineral During a severe epidemic of the disease It also depends on the way your mate intake of many of the subjects, because in Bolivia, the new drug was tested. The lives up to what you think is his part. children who received it were free of fever Husbands, says Dr. Ort, are less happy on the second day after treatment, and than wives. And husbands report more their coughing fits had greatly decreased. difference between their ideals and actu- By the fourth or fifth day the whoops were alities in their marriages. Both husbands over. The whoops often run a course of and wives are more disappointed in them- three to six weeks. selves than in their mates.

they enjoyed a richer source of vitamins A, B1, B,, and C. Iron was increased by their intake of iron-containing vegetables DON'T POISON YOUR CHILD! AID TO MR. STORK —carrots, beets, spinach, and broccoli. BY EDWIN D. NEFF By LEROY K. THOMPSON, M.D. The diet used by the subjects of this What about your medicine chest— Miracle drugs make childbearing experiment was as follows: is it a booby trap for your child? safer today than ever before. Breakfast: Citrus fruit juice WATER CAN CURE! TELEVISION Whole-grain cereal BY FRED B. MOOR, M.D. BY RAYMOND SCHUESSLER Vegetable margarine Water has hidden power that can Seven rules for viewing television . Fruit other than citrus give nature a big boost in keeping Whole-grain bread you healthy. Nuts or olives, if desired REGULAR FEATURES Luncheon or Dinner: THE SKIN GROWS OLD Legumes (2 orders for larger persons) HOMEMAKER HINTS Vegetables (1 leafy, 1 root or tuber, BY PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D. DIETITIAN SAYS Man is ever learning to hold Father 1 stem, miscellaneous, or additional PROFILES OF CONTRIBUTORS root or tuber) Time at bay a little longer. Nuts, olives, or avocados Whole-grain bread Vegetable margarine Vegetable juice, if desired

NOVEMBER, 1951 The Editor Says Vitamins--Bargains vs. Ballyhoo

Americans will spend $200,000,000 * for money for entertainment. But to hood- your individual needs. He is qualified to vitamins this year. For this tidy sum wink sick persons into buying worthless tell whether you have a vitamin defi- they will expect new zip and zing, a bet- elixirs under the pretext of renewed ciency. His high-vitamin diet will enable ter night's sleep, increased daytime ef- health and relief is little short of crim- you to get your quota of minerals and ficiency, calmer nerves. Why? Not because inal. Hadacol hopefuls will get more al- vitamins at the most economical source their doctor says they could expect these, cohol than vitamins. Each bottle contains —your food market. but because the sensational billboard, TV an ounce of ethyl alcohol (about as much Meantime, here are some of the essen- spot, or radio commercial says so. They as two highballs). It gives the imbiber tial vitamin foods, which you need each may not need vitamins at all, but the a temporary warm, cozy feeling, but lit- day: magazine advertisement says they do, so tle else. Vitamin A—Green, red, and yellow veg- they go right out and buy a bottle of This high alcoholic content (12 per etables; fish-liver oils. vim pills or a jug of some wonder-work- cent) may account for Hadacol's amazing Vitamin B complex—Whole-grain cere- ing stuff. sales. In the dry States, where liquor is als, 100 per cent whole-wheat bread, But after gulping several hundred pills outlawed, the $1.25 bottle has been boot- brewers' yeast. or swigging several quarts of the "magic" legged for $2. Sales boomed under the Vitamin C—Citrus fruits, certain other elixir, they feel no better. They probably black market. Thanks also to the flamboy- fruits, and certain vegetables, espe- didn't need the extra vitamins in the first ant advertising, sales have jumped from cially green peppers. place, or perhaps they fell for the wrong 100,000 bottles a month to 2,000,000. If Vitamin D—The sunshine vitamin; also vitamin advertisement. Maybe theirs was LeBlanc's customers follow his advice— added now to milk. a vitamin A deficiency, and the bottle take a 12-week course (a bottle lasts 4 Vitamin E—You'll get your share of of "magic" they bought contained only days), $26.25 worth of the stuff—this year this vitamin if you eat 100 per cent vitamin B. Of the fabulous amount spent his sales may top an incredible $100,- whole-wheat bread and whole-grain on vitamins this year, some buyers will 000,000. cereals daily or sprinkle a little wheat get their money's worth, but millions will germ over your breakfast cereal. be cheated. Minerals—All green leafy vegetables There's money magic in the word vita- 1 11I111$0, and other ground-grown foods, such min. It can sell anything from cottonlike \*1\10 as potatoes. bread to blue milk. So long as that miracle Calcium—Milk, green vegetables. This word vitamin appears on the label or in mineral is needed in later life as the advertising, the gullible public will much as it is in childhood for steady buy, eat, and rest assured that the stuff nerves and strong bones. is really good for them. We sometimes If you have been shortchanging yourself wonder how bread, butter, orange juice. on these essential foods, your doctor may breakfast cereals, and milk were ever prescribe added vitamins by mouth or in- sold before the salesmen bad vitamins jection. He can tell if you need vitamins. to sell them with! And because he keeps up on the latest Now comes the hullabaloo about vita vitamin information, analyzing each new mins from the hawkers of Hadacol. the product for potency and its effect on latest to hit the American public, as noted patients, he can prescribe the best vitamin in a recent Reader's Digest article. Last bargain for you. year Louisiana's stout little Senator Dud- If you, like millions of others, bought ley J. LeBlanc revealed just how gullible Hadacol expecting to make up for a vita- the public can get. He proved that they Obviously, 21 cents' worth of vitamins min A, C, D, or E deficiency, you might will plank down cold cash for almost for $1.25 is no bargain, but just a lot of as well have drunk so much cool, clear anything, even bilge water, if it is bally- sharp salesmanship. But you may ask, water—it contains none of these essential hooed loud enough and long enough. "Where is the best place to buy vitamins? vitamins. However, your doctor can pre- No doctor or druggist, but a stem-wind- Where can I get my money's worth?" scribe a 4-cent vitamin-mineral capsule ing salesman, LeBlanc, laced 21 cents' Actually, the best place to buy vitamins containing all of these vitamins, plus the worth of vitamins and minerals through a is in the grocery store and the vegetable B-complex vitamins, plus a number of 24-proof alcoholic mixture. The concoction market. If your diet is adequate, well- minerals needed for normal nutrition. tastes like bilge water, smells worse. It balanced, containing the essential foods, For vitamin bargains, not ballyhoo, let sells for $1.25 a bottle. When asked what you won't need extra vitamins. Also, the your doctor study your diet and prescribe the stuff was good for. LeBlanc was vitamin content of fresh fruits, green the best vitamin buy for you. He's in a alarmingly frank: "It was good for five leafy vegetable% whole-grain cereals, nuts, better positiot to know than any Indian and a half million for me last year," he milk, eggs, and butter is a whole lot medicine man, who is interested in your said. With a million-dollar-a-month cam- higher than that of Hadacol or many money and not in your health. paign, using all the tricks of an Indian other vitamins on the market today. medicine show, he maneuvered $22,000,- And where do you think the druggist Yours for better health, 000 from millions of Americans last year. gets his vitamins? Many of them come Of course it is every citizen's privilege from food items. Brewers' yeast, wheat to satisfy his curiosity and spend his germ, fish oils, whole wheat, and alfalfa are all used in making vitamins. * This figure was obtained from a survey made If you feel tired and run down, let your by Dan Rennick, editorial director of Drug Topics, for that magazine, published by Topics Publishing doctor check your diet. He can put you Company. on a high-vitamin program tailored to

6 LIFE & HEALTH past president. And LIFE AND HEALTH is exceedingly proud to present this message by the man who has done more than any HO El riS other to help lengthen the life of today's diabetic patients. eontriLtoti

Charles H. Wolohon, M.D. ("Why Nose Colds From Cold Feet?" page 18), is a Washington, D.C., specialist in internal medicine. Born in Camden, New Jersey, Dr. Wolo- medical students at George Washington hon received his A.B. degree from Wash- University School of Medicine, where he ington Missionary College, in Washing- is adjunct professor of pharmacology. ton, D.C., and M.D. degree from the Col- Father of two married daughters, he lege of Medical Evangelists School of looks forward to each week end, when he Medicine, Loma Linda, California. and Mrs. Nelson try to rebuild the soil on Especially interested in heart disease, their rocky hilltop in Virginia. There they Dr. Wolohon is aware of what a faulty grow dogwood, azaleas, daffodils, and circulation can do—that it accounts for many of the wild flowers of Eastern Charles H. Best, M.D. ("Diabetes and many of our ills, including the common United States. Currently evenings he is Insulin," page 8), is the co-discoverer of cold. tangling with irregular Spanish verbs, insulin. While still a medical student Dr. Professionally, Dr. Wolohon has studied for fun. Best assisted Dr. Frederick G. Banting in under the eminent heart specialist Dr. this world-famous discovery, which has Paul D. White, of Harvard. He is a fellow brought life to thousands of diabetics. of the American College of Physicians * * * Dr. Best, who now lives in Toronto, and the American Heart Association. Canada, and is professor of physiology at An ornithologist, Dr. Wolohon pursues the University of Toronto and director his bird-loving hobby of an early morning, and professor in the Banting and Best De- when he will be seen quietly wandering partment of Medical Research, is best through Washington's famed Rock Creek known to medical students for his well- Park in search of new species of birds to known book The Physiological Basis of add to his collection of "birds seen." He Medical Practice, which is a bible to thou- also plays a nimble game of table tennis, sands of freshmen medical students as and has a fine collection of color pictures. they begin their study in the profession. Married to the former Gertrude Dower, Married and father of two children— he is father of two girls—Patricia Ann, Charles Alexander, 19, and Henry Bruce 20, and Grade, 17. This year he sent Macleod, 16, named for Dr. Best's former Gracie to Paris to study art and attend a professor Dr. Macleod, famed University youth's convention. And he gave her ex- of Toronto physiologist, under whom Dr. plicit instructions to bring home some Wallace F. Janssen ("Be Careful About Best studied—Dr. Best drives a Chrysler good Kodachromes for papa's projector. Prescriptions," page 10) is assistant to car from his suburban Toronto home to A victim of habit, Dr. Wolohon became the commissioner of the Federal Food and the famous Banting Institute, where he so addicted to hydrotherapy while an in- Drug Administration, here in Washing- may be seen daily working on some phase tern at the Washington Sanitarium and ton. In various capacities he has been re- of carbohydrate metabolism research. Hospital that he took a needle-spray porting the activities of Food and Drug For relaxation Dr. Best likes to hie shower each Friday afternoon. And to for nearly 18 years. He started in New away to Strawberry Hill, his country this day you will find him every Friday York as editor of a trade magazine, The home 35 miles from Toronto, where he in- afternoon under the spray. Dr. Wolohon Glass Packer, then joined a Washington dulges in painting and tramping over the not only writes about hydrotherapy but newsletter for the drug and pharmaceu- farm. He also plays a good game of golf. takes his own medicine, and enjoys good tical industries—"F-D-C Reports." His in- The Bests' favorite vacation haunt is an health as a consequence. timate knowledge of the FDA led to his old farm on the coast of Maine. present position this year. Dr. Best is a good speaker, and is in de- Mr. Janssen now has charge of the edu- mand by medical societies throughout the * * * cational activities of this important Gov- world to tell firsthand of his discovery of ernment agency, which protects the pub- insulin. Last year he gave more talks in Erwin E. Nelson, M.D. ("Be Careful lic from harmful or improperly labeled the United States than he did in his About Prescriptions," page 10), medical foods, drugs, and cosmetics. native Canada, and had one interesting director and chief of the Division of Medi- Married, and the father of four daugh- trip to South Africa, another to Europe. cine, Food and Drug Administration, was ters, aged 3 to 17, he says his hobbies are Here he attended important medical sci- born in Springfield, Missouri, and at- civic business as a town-board member entific conferences, exchanging ideas with tended Drury College. His Ph.D. degree in and puttering around his Washington, newly formed groups of diabetic associa- pharmacology is from the University of D.C., home and garden. Mr. Janssen is a tions, organized since the war. Missouri, and his M.D. degree is from the native of St. Paul, Minnesota, and a grad- Dr. Best is a man of degrees, a few of University of Michigan. uate of Macalester College in that city. which are C.B.E., M.A., D.Sc. (Chicago) Most of his adult life has been spent as (London) (Oxford), Sc.D. (Cambridge), full-time teacher of pharmacology in medi- D.h.c. (Paris), D.M.h.c. (Amsterdam) cal schools, first at his alma mater, Michi- * * * (Louvain) (Liege), LL.D. (Dalhousie) gan, and later at Tulane. After three years (Queens), F.R.S., F.R.C.P. (Canada). in industry he came to the Food and Elspeth Bennett ("Of Course You Can Dr. Best's "Diabetes and Insulin" was Drug Administration, in 1947, as chief of Reduce!" page 16) is a St. Louis dietitian written originally on request of the edi- the new-drug section. And in 1950 he took who spends much of her time probing into tors of Forecast, the publication for lay his present position. the cause of obesity and developing diets diabetics, published by the American Dia- He still thinks of himself as a teacher, and booklets to prevent this No. 1 U.S. betes Association, of which Dr. Best is a and finds time to give lectures to the (Turn to page 34) NOVEMBER, 1951 7 ,gIABETES AND INSULIN A CHARLES H. BEST, M.D. Codiscoverer of Insulin With Sir Frederick G. Banting Director, Banting Institute

The responsibility of every diabetes patient

is to ensure himself of proper daily care.

ANY of you take insulin every day and I feel Even on this continent, however, there are still obvious that you must appreciate what it does far and readily possible improvements to be made in the M better than I can. For personal reasons, treatment of diabetes and we must not lose sight of the Banting and I were both greatly interested fact that there are many places in the world where in diabetics long before we began to work together, or neither insulin nor an appropriate diet is yet available before insulin was available. It is impossible to express for the diabetic. the pleasure and satisfaction which we felt when our In the not too distant future there will probably be researches brought the realization that insulin did a world organization of diabetics. The prime purpose produce beneficial results in the treatment of diabetes. of its members should be to improve the lot of diabetics Then as now, however, this feeling of satisfaction was less fortunate than themselves. There is no danger that mixed with a sense of great responsibility for the improperly treated diabetics will dominate the organi- continued well-being of diabetics everywhere. There zation. They will have neither the determination nor is no doubt that the world we now live in is becoming strength to do so. The last war demonstrated very a better place in which to have diabetes—you your- clearly how nations and individuals could be kept in selves live in one of the most progressive countries poor health by inadequate food and medical care. There from the medical as well as from other points of view. are, of course, many places in the world where lack of food and the absence of life-saving drugs rob people of the sporting chance to compete on an equal basis with the inhabitants of other countries which are better equipped in every way. As you will understand, the untreated diabetic—from some points of view—is much worse off than other neglected people. He is, of course, terribly susceptible to infections of all kinds. A low caloric intake decreases the incidence and severity of diabetes, but a race of people maintained on a diet which, without other forms of treatment, con- sistently masks the diabetic state, is not likely to make many contributions to the welfare of the world. The difficulties which face all severe diabetics will not be solved if diabetics who are in a position to help others do not recognize the fact that they have a real responsibility and, from some viewpoints, a definite obligation. It would not be accurate to suggest that the medical profession provides insulin more freely to one diabetic than to another. It should, of course, be readily available to everyone, but most doctors would feel, as I do, a greater satisfaction and a lighter heart in restoring to health the individual who accepts his responsibilities and tries to help others than the one who thinks a few dollars or a few hundred dollars completely discharge his obligation to society. I have merely touched on this aspect of the "diabetic life.".. . We physicians recognize our continued scientific and

THE peoples of the world whose diet is low in calories are less Condensed from A.D.A. Forecast, a publication for the diabetic by the likely to have diabetes than those whose diet is high in calories. American Diabetic Association.

8 LIFE & HEALTH Below: Charles H. Best, MD.

Above: Sir Frederick G. Banting

A. Devaney UNCOUNTED thousands live normal lives because of the research of Doctors Banting and Best. professional responsibilities for the improvement of from the University of California and from Yale, the treatment of diabetes. . . . If we could improve represents another definite advance in our knowledge. the attitude of the many poorly controlled diabetics It is obviously a great help in our effort to neutralize towards their disease, most of them would, I believe, and control these substances which produce diabetes be tremendously benefited. If, in more diabetics, we to know what they really are. could secure that wonderful blend of meticulous care There are a great many different ways of producing and absence of worry about his own case, the physi- diabetes—three or four glands in our bodies make cian's task, of course, would be immeasurably light- substances which produce or aggravate diabetes. It ened. This is true of many types of patients, but dia- seems rather unfair that insulin has to work alone betes is the only condition which demands accurate against all these powerful influences. When they are injection treatment every day and it therefore presents kept under control, i.e., when there is plenty of insulin, special problems. How can we encourage and stimulate they are helpful. When they gain control they destroy diabetics to take better care of themselves? They must the factory for producing insulin—the islands of realize that an army of trained scientists is working Langerhans. There are similar situations in much vigorously and expertly in their behalf. They have broader fields—a small part of an organization or seen good evidence of the successful advances which society must not be allowed to indulge in actions which have been made. They can be assured that both physi- are highly dangerous to the whole. cians and governmental agencies are making great We have been surprised that what we thought was strides in the earlier detection and in the provision absolutely pure insulin has, until very recently, con- of better facilities for the care of diabetic patients. tained an unknown substance which interferes—prob- These steps are necessary but the front on which I ably only very slightly—with the effect of the insulin. like to watch the battle, and to participate, is where the This has not appreciably lessened the effect of insulin research forces are struggling to push ahead. in the treatment of human diabetes, but it has aroused How many of you realize that during the past year great interest in the possible function of the anti- diabetes has been produced in normal human volun- insulin substance. teers by the injection of a glandular extract? This Insulin has been studied under the electron micro- important advance in the field reveals one possible scope which, as you know, gives pictures of structures pathway but not the mechanism by which all diabetes not otherwise visible. Interesting, peculiar, and per- is produced in the human subject. The new information haps very useful little fibrils of insulin have been seen. was obtained through courageous action of the volun- These are being vigorously studied and they may help teers and physicians—a very real "collaboration." us to answer several important questions. . . . Several factors which may play a role in the produc- The continuation of very active efforts of lay organi- tion of diabetes have, during the past year, been ob- zations and of medical research workers promises great tained for the first time in pure form. These substances improvements in the health and happiness of diabetics come from the little gland within our brain. This work in the future. . . .

NOVEMBER, 1951 9 Ye Careful About Prescripts ion WIII E. 110011, M.D., ERand tillatAtE f. SAIISSEll U.S. Food and Drug Adolinistration

The regulations governing prescriptions are vital to the well-being of you and all your family.

A. Mranee YOUR physician is the only person who knows two important facts: the condition of your body and the nature of the medicine you need.

UR prescription, written by your family unobtainable except on bona fide doctors' prescriptions. doctor and filled by your neighborhood drug- Here are just a few instances from the Food and gist, is a very important little piece of paper. Drug Administration records : Of course you know that your prescription Serious poisoning of a small child by overdosage MIis the instrument whereby your doctor orders the with a sulfa drug. A Missouri physician prescribed a medication on which he relies to a large extent for correct dose. Four months later, without consulting your treatment. the doctor, the parents got the prescription refilled and But what you do not know about prescriptions is doubled the dose, thinking this would be more effective. also very important; in fact, it could save your life! The pharmacist is being prosecuted under the Federal According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administra- law for selling a dangerous drug without a prescription. tion, misuse of prescriptions in one way or another A Boston physician reports death of a man from causes "more deaths, injuries, broken homes, human cardiovascular disease, with benzedrine intoxication derelicts, and other tragedies" than all other violations as the contributory cause. Another doctor prescribed of the Federal drug laws put together. Files of the fourteen tablets of the drug in 1936 as part of a treat- Food and Drug Administration are filled with records ment for alcoholism. The man continued to get the of such disasters, caused by either (1) sale of potent prescription refilled, and when admitted to the hospital drugs to the public without prescriptions or (2) refill- he was taking more than a hundred tablets a week. ing of prescriptions for such drugs without the knowl- The druggist unhesitatingly refilled the prescription edge or-consent of the doctor. for an FDA inspector six months after the patient Accidental deaths and suicides through the use of had died. He is now being prosecuted. barbiturates (sleeping pills) are too well known to Unusual illness of a Washington, D.C., woman require explanation. Less frequently reported are the baffled her physician until he found she was continu- many instances of drug addiction or illness due to these ing to take a high-potency vitamin D preparation that and other potentially harmful drugs, which are legally he had prescribed months earlier. Without the doctor's Dr. Nelson is medical director, Food and Drug Administration, Wash- knowledge the woman had been getting this prescrip- ington, D.C., the agency that enforces the Federal Food, Drug, and tion refilled. Cosmetic Act, and Mr. Janssen is assistant to the commissioner of food and drugs. A young schoolteacher went to a Georgia physician

10 LIFE & HEALTH complaining of swelling of the face and eyelids and can be refilled for your own personal use as often as loss of hair from her entire body. The doctor had necessary. prescribed propylthiouracil, a dangerous but valuable But if you have not been helped by the medicine drug, with specific instructions to return for re- your doctor has prescribed, and feel the need of con- examination. The tablets benefited her so much that she tinuing to take it, he should be the first to know. Only got the prescription refilled, assuring the pharmacist in this way can he follow up on your case and determine she was following the doctor's advice, but she did not what he should do next. Unfortunately, many people return for her checkup until the alarming symptoms for one reason or another will put off returning to the appeared. Death could have followed. doctor and go instead to the drugstore to get their Relatively few retail druggists will break the law prescription refilled. This may be very dangerous. and risk injuring their customers' health for the sake Every druggist has the frequent and sometimes em- of the money they can make from illegal drug sales. barrassing experience of dealing with customers who In any group, however, there are always a few who put try to buy potent drugs without prescriptions or who dollars ahead of their professional reputations and the ask him to refill their old, expired prescriptions—some public welfare. Such druggists can now be prosecuted of which are really old family recipes and not prescrip- for criminal violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and tions at all. Depending on what they contain, the drug- Cosmetic-Act and fined or sent to jail, or both. During gist must determine whether he can legally dispense the last three years FDA has taken hundreds of drug- the medicine called for, and whether in his opinion it gists into court for persisting in selling drugs without is safe for the patient. Every year thousands of people prescriptions or on expired prescriptions. It has yet owe their lives to conscientious retail druggists who to lose a single such case. have advised them not to keep on taking certain medi- The way FDA and the Federal courts are interpret- cines, but to see a doctor—quickly. ing the law—a prescription is like a check: It calls Time was when anybody could go into a drugstore for a definite amount of a drug—the amount your and buy laudanum, morphine, or even the outlaw drug doctor ordered—and it should be cashed only once. Of heroin without a prescription. So much drug addiction course your doctor can specify the number of times he resulted that Congress passed the Harrison Act, put- thinks you should get the same prescription refilled ting all narcotics under strict control, with prescrip- without coming back for another visit. Or if you have tions required for every sale. Today many new drugs some chronic ailment, he can write a prescription that such as the sulfas, penicillin, (Turn to page 29)

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NOVEMBER, 1951 11

0;siar Neadache

A HAROLD J. HOHIE, M.D.

A. Devaney

You don't get by with tensions—they trip you up sooner or later! And when you pay them off, it's an expensive price indeed.

)W many times have you said, "This is a sore and sensitive to touch. This dilatation of arteries headache," when faced with a difficult task is part of the bodily reaction in emotional tension. or presented with an unpleasant situation? When your muscles are held in sustained contraction You no doubt meant that the situation was they become painful. Your muscles will be contracted painful, like a headache. But you were also expressing when you are under emotional tension. The contraction the well-known fact that nervous tension causes head- is likely to be painful if you are not moving the part ache. of the body that the muscles are intended to move. Headaches can be caused by brain tumors, head in- Headache of muscle origin is especially common at the juries, inflammation of the brain, fever, monoxide-gas back of the head and upper neck, in the temples, and poisoning, alcoholic hang-over, and some drugs. Pain over the eyes. in the face or head can be caused by disease in the Through its effect on the muscles and arteries of the teeth, nose, sinuses, eyes, ears, scalp, and the bones and head, nervous, or emotional, tension can cause all sorts nerves of the head. The most common cause of recur- of headaches. Throbbing pain may be localized or ring and chronic headache is nervous tension. general. Sometimes there are temporary sharp, shoot- Most headaches caused by tension result from a dis- ing pains that disappear when tension is removed. turbance of function of the arteries and muscles of the There may be areas of tenderness over the scalp. There cranium and scalp. This means that what is aching isn't are also headaches described as a tight band around the your brain but tissues outside the brain. head, a stiff cap, a cramp, a weight, a drawing, a burst- When stretched, the arteries in the head are sensi- ing, or a pressing down on top of the head. These head- tive to pain. Anything that dilates these arteries may aches may prevent clear thinking, cause the eyes to be cause a throbbing pain. High blood pressure may oversensitive to light, bring on loss of appetite, vomit- aggravate this type of headache by increasing the ing, and discouragement. But they usually do not inter- force with Which the arteries are stretched. If the con- fere with sleeping. dition persists many hours, the pain may become steady Nervous tension is a normal part of active living. and even the skin over the painful vessels may become Zest and interest in the activities of life tune up the

12 LIFE & HEALTH functions of the body and make the body more efficient. resentment, suspicion, selfishness, and a sense of in- This is the healthful kind of nervous tension. If it is feriority or inadequacy. too intense or is sustained too long, it will produce Attitudes, like all our activities, are likely to be fatigue in the tissues and functions of the body. habitual, and we may not even be aware of the attitudes Fatigue makes us exert our will to force the mind and that we have, just as we are unaware of many of our body to get our intended work done. Any exertion of long-term habits. Whether or not we know what our our will is difficult or painful for us, and constitutes attitudes are, however, they determine how we feel another form of nervous tension. about everything that happens to us. The person entrusted with responsibility always has Our attitudes of resentment or fear may be aroused nervous tension, because the responsible situation is by happenings in our own bodies as well as by outside always conditional. He may succeed and be rewarded, influences affecting us. We may be overconcerned with or he may fail and suffer various undesired conse- our body sensations. An example of this cause of nerv- quences. If he can promptly fulfill the expectations of ous tension producing headache is the commonly noted the situation by successful decision or action, -the ten- association of headache with constipation, Such head- sion is released. If no solution is in sight, he may get ache is relieved too soon after the emptying of the release from tension by voluntarily occupying himself bowel to have been caused by any chemical poisoning. with other less-important thoughts. At times the chemical or metabolic functions of the If the person is overconscientious, he finds it more body may be changed so as to increase the tendency to difficult to take decisive action or forget his respon- nervous tension and change the. activity of tissues and sibilities temporarily in recreational activities and thus make headaches more likely. One of these times during sleeping hours. So his nervous tension persists. is the seven- to ten-day period before menstruation in The nervous tension produced by everyday respon- many women. Another is when we have gone many sibilities is emotional tension, because we are dealing hours without eating. with our natural tendency to protect and advance our- Fatiguing activities during which the muscles of selves and our welfare. Anger and resentment are the neck and eyes are used are particularly likely to aroused by resistance to our progress. Fear and anxiety produce headache. Reading, watching a moving picture are felt when success seems delayed or unobtainable. over someone's shoulder, inspecting items on a con- These emotions of anger and fear enable the body to veyor belt, or watching the landscape from a moving act efficiently in emergencies, but they are not effective auto or train are examples. or healthful if sustained until they become a way of Some of us get headaches when shopping, traveling, life. Many of us are kept in a more or less continuous sight-seeing, visiting, or entertaining. In these activi- state of emotional tension by unhealthful attitudes. ties we are affected by a combination of causes of ten- These attitudes cause the happenings of life to exag- sion headache. We are likely to become physically tired, gerate the natural emotional responses. Some of these and perhaps eat irregularly, and there is the anxiety tension-producing attitudes are worry, mental hurry, to make the right decision and do what is proper. Migraine is a condition in which headache is an outstanding symp- tom. Migraine headaches occur in about one person in twelve. The attacks of migraine usually recur, but the interval varies from a few days to many years. The headaches are frequently preceded by some disturbance of vision and are often one-sided. They are likely to come on during or just after a period of nervous tension. The week-end headache, or the let-down headache, is likely to be migraine. Besides headache, as migraine equivalents, there may be pains in the abdomen, chest, limbs, and nonpainful attacks of vomiting, diarrhea, generalized puffiness, transient moodiness, and even fever. In the relief of headaches the great difficulty with most people is that they worry about their headaches instead of doing something about the cause of the headache. IL A/. LaInhcr! When you have a headache that

NERVOUS TENSION in the proper degree is healthful. If the tension is too intense or you think is caused by nervous ten- sustained too long, it will produce fatigue in the tissues and functions of the body. sion or fatigue (Turn to page 27)

NOVEMBER, 1951 13 Photo Courtesy of the Author UNDER the guidance of attendants office workers rest and relax while they bask under sun lamps. BOTTLED SUNSHINE RICHARD HOURES, M.D.

Sun lamps, substituting for Old Sol, give you healing beams rain or shine.

IGHT is the life of man." This saying, although they are largely filtered out by the banks of smoke and centuries old, acknowledges the fact that light dust prevailing over large cities. In winter sunshine is essential for the existence of plants, animals, they are present in only small quantity, and in summer and man. The sun's rays consist of many types sunshine in large quantity only during the middle of of radiation, the three most important as far as health the day—from ten to two o'clock. is concerned being the ultraviolet, the visible, and the A knowledge of the nature of the component rays of infrared. The visible, or luminous, rays affect eyesight the sun enables the scientist to analyze the effect they and enable man to see the objects around him. The in- exert on the body. When a person is exposed to the visible infrared heat rays form a seemingly inexhaust- sun's rays for a half hour or so on a warm summer day, ible amount of heat energy; these and the light rays he begins to perspire and his skin turns red. This red- comprise 93 per cent of sunlight. About 7 per cent of ness is due to the infrared, or heat, rays in the sunlight. the sun's rays consists of invisible ultraviolet rays, On striking the body these rays are turned into heat, which exert special effects on health. which warms the skin and the underlying tissues. There are two particularly important varieties of The reddening of the skin disappears almost as soon ultraviolet rays in sunlight—one, of long-wave length, as one moves out of the sun, and leaves no aftereffects. which can pass through ordinary window glass and A few hours after one has been exposed to the sun whose action on the body and on health is somewhat for a considerable period of time, another form of red- uncertain; and the second, or short-wave length, which ness, the well-known sunburn, appears on the skin. does not pass through ordinary window glass and which The exposed parts of the skin feel hot and itchy, and is known to be effective in curing rickets. In artificial if in the enthusiasm for a sun bath one has had an sources of ultraviolet there are waves of still shorter overdose, the effect will grow steadily worse for a length, which are especially effective in killing germs. day or two. Later the skin becomes flaky and peels off. None of the beneficial ultraviolet rays of sunlight can All this is due to the irritant action of an overdose of reach the body on cloudy and rainy days inasmuch as ultraviolet rays.

14 LIFE & HEALTH One cannot acquire a sunburn by exposing himself to the sun shining through ordinary window glass, * PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE * because this glass filters out the short-wave rays; that is, the glass does not permit the passage of the sun- burning short-wave ultraviolet rays. After repeated exposure to the sun many persons become tanned because of the formation of a dark pigment in the skin. Such "sun tan" can also be produced by ultraviolet lamps. Medical opinion as to the significance of tanning varies. The majority of opinion holds that sun tan is merely the formation of more pigment in the deeper layers of the skin and plays only a minor role in pro- tection against sunburn. It is a well-known fact that most persons under systematic sun treatment increase in well-being and strength. Successive examinations of the blood show an increase in hemoglobin, the iron compound so essential to health. LET US BE THANKFUL Sun treatment is often helpful in persons suffering from general debility, so-called secondary anemia, re- By D. A. DELAFIELD peated colds, respiratory diseases, or convalescence after an exhausting illness. After a course of well- Clyde 0. York tells the story of a little girl who one morning at breakfast prayed, "Thank you, administered sun treatments such persons usually show God, for sunshine and orange juice." It was a marked improvement, with increase of appetite and particularly beautiful prayer because that morning lessening of pain and fatigue. In tuberculosis of the it was raining and she was having prunes for bone, lymph glands, intestines, larynx, and skin, sun breakfast. treatment plays a most beneficial role when it is com- If we don't like prunes, we can thank God for orange juice, instead of complaining about the bined with good hygiene and rest. prunes. The spirit of thankfulness does most good Irradiation of the human body with predominant when we are face to face with unpleasant situa- ultraviolet rays has a spectacular curative and preven- tions. Happy the man or woman who can think tive effect in the so-called bone substance or calcium about something to be thankful for no matter what happens. deficiency diseases of children (Turn to page 23) Thankfulness is life's joyous response to every situation, good or bad. Life may not offer too many comforts and delights; it may bring us sick- ness and financial difficulties. There are mixed blessings for all of us, and our hearts are full of these in varying proportions. Life's overflow of thankfulness is for the bitter as well as for the sweet. Only when we are thankful for everything can we say that we are well adjusted to life and wise enough to profit from every experience. A thief once broke into the modest dwelling of Matthew Henry, the celebrated scholar, and stole his purse. But the busy, optimistic old gentleman, far from being cast down, turned to his diary and indited this cheerful observation: "Let us be thankful: first, because I was never robbed before; second, because although he took my purse, he did not take my life; third, because although he took all I possessed, it was not much; and, fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed." If we will pause to count our blessings and name them one by one, we will be surprised to find how much the Lord has done. We are all the benefici- aries of Providence. The kind Creator has left us all many precious talents—time, health, money, liberty, strength, intelligence, and life. We have food, clothing, shelter, and life's necessities. If we would stop to consider how fortunate we are, we would not complain or grumble about anything, ever. Let us be thankful, then. If we look for something to be thankful for, we will not have trouble finding it, for the evidences of God's love and gracious care are everywhere.

THIS bright-eyed, healthy baby gets a daily dose of the beneficial ultraviolet, with a dash of vitamin D, from pin-up fixture over him

NOVEMBER, 1951 15 By ELSPETH BEHHETT, M.A. NUTRITIONIST

Here are some sound reasons why

the "pleasingly plump" should cut down—and an easy way to do it.

International WHEN padded with excess fat, the body takes revenge in the form of backaches, foot and leg pains, flat feet, and many other maladies.

HE old saw that says, "Everybody loves a fat doctor performing the operation. A man or woman man," should be revised to "Everybody wor- who is even twenty-fiye or thirty pounds overweight T ries about a fat man." will have a deposit of fat varying from one to five Mr. Fat is the No. 1 public health problem inches thick over the abdominal wall. It takes longer today. He lives a short and not-so-merry life, and it's for that fat to heal, and it's more liable to infection his own fault. than other body tissues. That means more time in the He leads a short life because among other things his hospital after surgery, more expenses, more suffering. bony frame was not constructed to carry the extra load And don't be fooled into believing that fat men are of upholstery on two small feet. The body takes revenge always jolly and happy. According to recent figures, in the form of backaches, foot and leg pains, and flat the incidence of suicide among overweights is greater feet. At last the body just has more than it can stand, than among those of normal weight or under. The too- and it gives up. fat person often looks like a tired feather bed tied in Furthermore, the heart wasn't built to pump blood the middle, is less active, and doesn't get around much to nourish the excess fatty tissue. So there's also high with the opposite sex. This can mean near catastrophe blood pressure and heart trouble to pay. —a dull, lonely life. What's more, during his short and not-so-merry life So menacing is excess weight that many insurance the fat man is a walking invitation to disease and companies refuse to insure people after the age of organic malfunctions. Here are some of the ailments forty who are 20 per cent or even twenty pounds too doctors find oftener in fat persons than in those of fat. Here's why: They have found that in a group of normal weight: diabetes, acute and chronic nephritis, thirty persons of whom ten are fat and ten thinf all diseases of the arteries, influenza, and cancer. Gall- aged forty, three thin ones will remain at the age of bladder disease and gallstones are so frequently asso- seventy. Only one of the overpadded will survive. If ciated with, obesity that overeating and overweight are you're a yoor risk to the insurance companies, you're accepted by many doctors as contributing factors. a poor risk to yourself. Some persons think operations are fun—to talk The obese person can help himself to longer life and about. But they're no joke to the fat man or the happiness very easily if he'll only face facts—and

16 LIFE & HEALTH figures. Occasionally overweight is due to glandular stomach. And, of equal importance, you're failing to or other causes. But doctors agree that most obesity is improve the bad eating habits that made you what you due to eating too much and selecting the wrong food. are today—fat. That boils down to a matter of simple arithmetic. Because there is so much misinformation as to what If you consume more calories in food than you expend constitutes a safe slimming-down procedure, the writer in living, you store up the excess in the form of a waist- recently drew up a code setting forth sound principles line bulge or a bustle. If you eat less than you use each on which any reducing program should be based if it is day, your body draws on its stored fat for energy, and to safeguard health while taking off pounds. These the bulge disappears. The first step in getting more sound principles of reducing appeared in the Journal zippy than hippy is to decide to lower your daily of the American Medical Association, and were ac- calorie intake. cepted by the association's Council on Foods and Nutri- The next thing is to remember that your body, even tion. They specify that "an adequate low-calorie diet when reducing, needs proteins, minerals, and vitamins is an essential part of any reducing regimen, regard- to build and repair tissues and maintain normal bodily less of the cause of obesity," and define an "adequate functions, health, and well-being. The only way you can low-calorie diet" as one that- get these proteins, minerals, and vitamins is from the 1. Is low enough in calories to force the body to food you eat—a variety of food. use stored fat for some of its energy needs. Certainly you can take off pounds on a banana-and- 2. Is high enough in calories to maintain normal skim-milk diet, a ten-day fruit-juice fast, or any other body functions. fad diet. You might lose a few pounds too by skipping 3. Is generous in protein, adequate in vitamins and meals. But your doctor will tell you that you're short- minerals. changing your health because you aren't giving your 4. Is properly planned to aid in the control of appe- body what it must have to keep going. tite. For instance, on the banana-and-milk diet you're 5. Develops habits that will maintain desired weight not getting nearly enough iron, thiamine, and ascorbic after it is attained. acid. You may have trouble with elimination because 6. Includes a wide variety of foods distributed of lack of roughage. You're hungry too, because among at least three satisfying meals a day, each with bananas and milk don't give enough bulk to fill your staying qualities to reduce discomfort between meals. The diet given below is a digest of a 1,200- calorie diet for women based on the foregoing sound principles of reducing. It can easily be transformed into a 1,800-calorie diet for men by increasing the size of servings, adding an egg at breakfast and rye wafers and a glass of skim milk to another meal during the day.

BREAKFAST Choose one food and only one from each group. Do not skip any group. Group 1—Fruits. No sugar, syrup, cream, or sauces. Apple, banana, orange, peach, or pear .... 1 medium Unsweetened orange or grapefruit juice 1/4 cup Group 2—Cereals. Use 1/4 cup skim milk, no sugar. Whole-grain such as hot or instant rolled oats 1/4 cup Whole-grain ready-to-eat such as shredded whole-wheat bite-size biscuits 1/3 cup Group 3—Whole-grain wafers such as rye wafers plain or toasted 2 wafers Group 4—Butter or margarine 1 teaspoon Group 5—skins milk or hot cocoa (made with Ewing Galloway skim milk, 1 teaspoon each sugar and cocoa) 1 cup DON'T take fright from what your scales tell you, and go on a sharp diet. You still need daily nutriments to keep up your good health. (Turn to page 25)

NOVEMBER, 1951 17 Wirff Nose Colds graft Cold tvet ?

.& CHARLES H. woLoHon, M.D.

When a cold threatens, help nature to help herself —don't add to her burdens by drugging yourself.

OME time ago at a medical meeting I heard a What is hydrotherapy? It is the use of water in the celebrated nose and throat specialist speak of treatment of disease. Water may be used internally as the effect that cold and draft have in causing a cooling or heating drink, a douche, and an enema, or diseases. Many times in years gone by we externally for cleanliness and as an application to have heard our mothers say, "Now, do not get your either increase or decrease the body temperature. All, feet wet, or you will catch cold." This sounds perfectly both sick and well, use hydrotherapy to some extent. natural to all of us. We are so used to it that we do Everyone should employ it far more and drugs far less. not think of the peculiarity of the statement that if we A better name for hydrotherapy would be thermo- get our feet wet, we catch cold in the head. If the cold therapy, or heat therapy. Water is the best vehicle for and dampness do anything at all to our bodies, one the application of heat or its opposite, cold, to the body. would think they would affect the parts most directly It is usually the heating or cooling effect that achieves concerned, which are the feet and legs. the desired results, not any mystical property of the How is it that7exposure we catch cold in our water. Other liquids might, in fact, be substituted for heads? The answer to water as a medium to convey heat, but nature has been this question will give bountiful and kind in providing the best things free. us an understanding of There are two chief effects of hydrotherapy: It in- some of the underlying fluences the oxygen consumption in the tissues and principles of hydrother- affects the movement of the blood. apy. Short hot and short cold applications to the body are

R. F 11. Photo CONGESTION in the chest and head from the common cold, familiar to most people, will respond to water treatments started early.

18 LIFE & HEALTH stimulating. They accelerate the oxidative processes. For instance, a short, brisk cold shower has a marked influence on the body. After the shower, as one rubs himself vigorously with a towel, he feels warm —there is a heat-producing effect. One notices that the skin appears red—there is a circulatory effect. One feels refreshed and invigorated, for the nervous system is stimulated and energized—there is a nervous effect. Taken as a whole, these effects constitute what we term a good reaction. Short heat, such as with the fomentation, does much the same thing as the brisk cold shower. Long-continued hot or cold applications are depressing. The body processes are slowed, and the circulation becomes slug- gish. This is well illustrated by the ener- vating effect of tropical heat on the average white person. The frequent reports of persons' first becoming benumbed, lan- guorous, then sleepy, and finally freezing to death make vivid the depressing effect of long-continued cold. Both hot and cold applications influence in several ways the movement of blood in the skin and the functional activity of the underlying organs. One effect is obtained through what we call the reflex arc, by way MOTHER, don't depend on bottles only. Johnny's of the nervous system. In this case the cold yields to stimulation of his natural reactions too. application to the skin produces Changes in the underlying organs similar to the changes pro- tive lessening of the blood duced in the skin. As an illustration, an ice bag applied supply to the nose and to the area overlying the heart slows down the heart throat. The blending of as well as diminishes the functional activity of the skin these two effects prepares on which it rests. Reflex effects are concerned usually the soil for catching cold. with small areas, such as the one mentioned. It is easy to see how these factors operate. The Heat dilates the blood vessels of the feet and legs, anemic condition of the nose and throat spells a lack making them hold more blood. Cold applications to the of the cells, antibodies, and protective substances of feet and legs produce exactly the opposite effect. the blood. This gives the million and one germs that Mechanical effects predominate over reflex effects when opportunity to overcome the body resistance, and a applications cover a large area. That is the real effect cold, sore throat, or bronchitis results. of the heat or cold. How efficiently and well do simple water treatments Now to answer our question, How can getting feet change the scene, altering this condition! If taken cold and wet cause a cold in the head? First, the chill- in hand early, the situation is corrected by even a hot ing of the feet and legs by tramping through slush or foot bath. By it the blood vessels of the legs and feet snow has the mechanical effect of cold on the vessels are dilated, bringing the blood to them, and relieving of the extremities, causing them to constrict. The les- the congestion in the internal organs of the trunk, thus sening of the blood supply to the extremities because reflexly influencing the vessels of the nose and throat of the narrowing of the vessels causes an unbalanced to dilate and receive a generous supply of fresh, pure circulation, with congestion of the blood vessels of the blood to ward off the infection. If there is congestion abdomen and pelvis. One can see that thus there is in the lungs also, hot fomentations to the chest, front created a marked disturbance of the blood flow from and back, by their mechanical effect, relieve the condi- the mechanical effect alone. tion and equalize the circulation. Then a brisk cold- Then, too, the nose and throat are in reflex connec- mitten friction will close the pores and send the blood tion with the hands and feet. If one's nose begins to tingling on its way, carrying the red and white blood bleed, we may put his hands or feet in cold water, and cells to all parts of the body. because of the reflex blanching influence of the cold This is done accurately and easily, without injurious on the nasal mucous membrane, the bleeding may stop. results as from drugs. Sir William Osler well said, "The There is also a reflex effect from walking through person who takes medicine must recover twice; once the slush. The cold and chilliness imparted to the from the disease, and once from the medicine." Drugs extremities cause, through the nervous system, a rela- delay recovery. (Turn to page 27)

NOVEMBER, 1951 19 F_ATHER, We Mink thee

By ESTHER L. GAMER, M.A. DIETITIAN

"The gray of skies above my head, grapes. Green candles in brass candlesticks will give And white of snowy blanket spread distinction to this setting. O'er meadow grass and garden bed Now for the food, which must be the high light of the Bid me remember occasion. In the following suggestive menu the tradi- That blossoms bloom for me no more, tional Thanksgiving fare is featured. Some of it ap- And matin song of birds is o'er, pears in a new dress to gratify the modern desire for That winter waits outside my door, And 'tis November." a touch of the spice of variety. -LALIA MITCHELL TIIORNTON. Menu Thanksgiving pumpkin canapes Celery sheaves, carrot curls, olives Pecan loaf with mushroom gravy Cabbage in golden sauce Sweet potatoes in ramekins Tossed vegetable salad Whole-wheat rolls and butter Magic cranberry pie NOVEMBER brings Thanks- Sweet cider punch Postum giving, the holiday that em- bodies one of the sweetest Thanksgiving Pumpkin Canapes traditions in American life. From slices of bread one-fourth inch thick stamp circles two inches in diameter. Saute lightly on one side and pipe Thoughts of Thanksgiving the edges with one third of a cream cheese mixed with a mean thoughts of home. little brown coloring, and mark off sections like a pumpkin. At Thanksgiving time the Simulate a pumpkin stem from green pepper. Serve daintily whole family—young and on a small plate with a paper doily. old, from far and near— gather about the family ta- Pecan Loaf ble laden with bounties the generous earth pours forth. 4 eggs 2 cups finely chopped celery We spare no pains to make these reunions joyful 1 cup chopped pecans 14 cup melted butter or 2 cups toasted bread crumbs margarine occasions, milestones in the lives of our loved ones. In 3 cups milk 1 tablespoon minced onion grandmother's day this meant setting a table that IA cup chopped parsley Salt literally groaned under its burden of divers meats, Beat eggs. Mix all ingredients together. Bake in loaf pan 45 minutes. Serve with mushroom gravy. Garnish with vegetables, and sweets. As someone has said, grand- parsley and radish roses. mother's besetting sin was to "kill with kindness and generous bounty." We today have come a long way toward simplifying our Thanksgiving repast, and know that indulgence to the extent of painful discomfort is unnecessary. However, we do want the food to be deliciously good and the atmosphere genuinely festive. Let us honor the autumn season in menu and decorations. The color scheme will run through shades of yellow, orange, red, brown, dull greens, and russet. For a color plan in which yellow is dominant, an effective and simple decorative table centerpiece may be made by piling up a pyramid of savory popcorn balls on a bed of autumn foliage or yellow chrysanthemums. Yellow candles and gold place cards made in the shape of oak or maple leaves will add a magic bit. A delightfully appropriate centerpiece for the Thanksgiving table is a pumpkin shell filled with harvest fruits—pears, pomegranates, plums, and

20 LIFE & HEALTH H. M. Lambert AT THANKSGIVING time the whole family—young and old, from far and near—gather about the family table laden with earth's bounties. But the alert homemaker will not allow overeating, not even on this one day a year. She knows that her family's health may be at stake.

Cabbage With Golden Sauce Sweet Cider Punch

1 medium head cabbage cut 1 cup milk 1 quart of sweet cider, % cup sugar or honey, juice of 1 in wedges 1 teaspoon salt lemon, 3 sprigs mint, crushed. Mix well, chill, and serve. 2 tablespoons butter or 14 package cream cheese I should like to_give you the recipe for cranberry cup, margarine 2 hard-cooked eggs which is an appetizing beginning for any Thanksgiving 2 tablespoons flour dinner. You may wish to substitute this recipe for the Cook cabbage wedges in small amount of boiling salted Thanksgiving pumpkin canapes. If you do, also substitute water until just tender; drain. Melt butter, add flour, and pumpkin chiffon pie for the cranberry pie and stuffed baked blend. Add milk and cook over low heat until thick. Crumble Irish potatoes for the sweet potatoes. the cheese into the sauce and stir smooth. Chop egg whites Cranberry Cup and add to sauce. Pour over cabbage wedges. Sieve egg yolks and sprinkle over top. (Cauliflower instead of cabbage may Put one pint of cranberries through food chopper, using be used in this recipe.) coarse knife. Wash but do not pare three large red apples, then put through the food chopper. Add one cup sugar or honey. Chill. Add one cup seedless white grapes cut in halves. Place portions in high sherbet glasses and top with Sweet Potatoes in Ramekins small ball of cranberry ice. Garnish with two or three mint leaves. 4 large sweet potatoes 14 cup brown sugar or honey 1i cup melted butter or 34 teaspoon cinnamon margarine % cup slivered almonds V4 cup grated orange peel Cook sweet potatoes, remove skins, and mash smooth. Beat in sugar or honey, butter, and cinnamon. Place in individual ramekins. Sprinkle with orange peel and almonds. Place in hot oven to reheat and brown the nuts.

Magic Cranberry Pie

1 1/3 cups (15 ounces) sweetened condensed milk 1h cup lemon juice 2 eggs, separated 1 cup drained cranberry pulp Baked pie shell Blend together the condensed milk, lemon juice, cranberry pulp, and egg. yolks. Pour into a nine-inch baked shell. Cover with meringue and brown.

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Caffeine and Aspirin the symptoms. Sometimes massage of the skin, give a degree of relief and the extremities is of temporary benefit. seem to clear off some of the scaling I use aspirin and caffeine to give me One afflicted with this illness should areas. However, as soon as these are tone. Are these the same substance? be under capable medical supervision, discontinued the eruptions frequently Aspirin is an analgesic, or a drug so that changes may be noted promptly reappear. that lessens the sensation of pain. It and given every possible advantage in Some have proposed a diet low in is not particularly stimulating or de- care. protein as being favorable in control- pressing; it is a pure substance. Caf- ling this disease. The results have been feine is an entirely different substance good in some instances with such a diet chemically, with a stimulating effect but not always. Others feel that suit- on the heart. able minerals in the diet are essential "WHY DID HE in treatment. r * * Whether sinus infection had any- DO IT?" thing to do with the onset of psoriasis Carbon Monoxide in your case we are unable to answer. Is there any danger in using an open This question will be an- burner heater? swered by J. Edgar Hoover, di- * Gas or kerosene unvented heaters rector, Federal Bureau of In- Hearing Through Vibration giVe off carbon monoxide into the vestigation, when he gives a air. If there is not a frequent change down-to-earth discussion on the How can a deaf person hear? So far of air in the room from proper ven- relationship between home hearing devices have been a disap- tilation, the accumulation of carbon health and the nation's juvenile pointment to me. Is there any way I monoxide will gradually produce drow- delinquency. can hear, even if it is only a little? siness, headache, or a flushed face. Don't miss Mr. Hoover's ad- The hearing mechanism for sounds Prolonged inhaling of the gas may vice on how you can keep your transmitted through the air may be finally lead to unconsciousness and home healthy and the nation destroyed or inefficient and yet the actual failure of the circulation. safe from crime. Coming soon individual can hear sounds carried to What appears to be a relatively in LIFE & HEALTH. him by vibration, such as vibrations mild poisoning may lead to subsequent felt through the fingers, bones of the injuries of the nervous system, such head, or muscles of the body. For ex- as loss of vision, neuritis, paralysis, ample, you may perceive vibrations of convulsions, collapse, or even death. a person walking twenty or thirty Psoriasis feet from you. This vibration passes * * * through the wood floor and is taken I have had psoriasis a long time. Is up by the body. there a cure known? Multiple Sclerosis It may be that you will not find a For psoriasis as you describe your hearing device that will relieve you of How long does it take to cure multi- condition one of the best treatments your affliction completely. We would ple sclerosis? known is exposure to ultraviolet light suggest your consulting a physician Multiple sclerosis is a degenerative or open sunlight. We have seen cases and following his advice about a hear- disease of the nerve cells in the spinal in which the lesions have involved the ing aid. cord. It usually appears about middle greater part of the body surface, and Learn to cultivate your appreciation life. Its course usually is progressive a few weeks of daily sun-bathing or of sound by the sense of touch. It may and quite unresponsive to treatment. daily exposure to the ultraviolet lamp be that this is as much of the hearing There is little known at the present resulted in their entire disappearance. process as you can expect to have re- time regarding effective treatment. However, when the treatment was dis- stored to you. Some medical workers claim diets continued they tended to return. Surgery without evidence of ob- properly balanced in minerals and The cause of psoriasis is not known. struction would be very dangerous. richly supplied with vitamins have There are several medications used as X-ray probably would give no infor- brought about a marked lessening of ointments or lotions that, applied to mation on your condition.

22 LIFE & HEALTH Bottled Sunshine especially constructed for home use Killing the germs in the air by ultra- (Continued from page 15) under a doctor's supervision. The violet in order to preserve foods is Council of Physical Medicine approves done because a large portion of food and adults, foremost among which is only sun lamps that produce an ade- spoilage results from mold spores and rickets. Rickets is caused by a defi- quate but safe intensity of ultraviolet. bacteria found in the air, both of ciency of a chemical substance known The minimum intensity will cause a which can be killed by ultraviolet. as vitamin D, which is necessary for mild sunburn in not more than sixty Such a procedure is safer than chemi- the maintenance of lime salts in the minutes at a distance of twenty-four cal germ killing, because it does not blood. Lime salts are essential for inches. contaminate the food products with proper hardening of the bones. To be safe for home use, lamps must substances that may be poisonous However, it has also been proved not emit any of the short ultraviolet when eaten. that it is not always necessary to irra- rays, which are dangerous if wrongly Overdosage is the principal danger diate the patient with ultraviolet rays, handled. Ultraviolet treatments from of sun-lamp treatments. Dosage de- but that irradiation of foodstuffs or these sun lamps cannot do more than pends on the distance of the lamp from certain chemical products will produce exert a mild general tonic effect. They the body and the time of exposure. vitamin D in these substances. Feed- should never be used to treat any Dosage must be considered separately ing these to the patient will result actual disease except under the guid- for each source and each individual. in the cure of rickets. ance of a physician. The ever-present factor of individual There is an old adage about the In physicians' hands the artificial sensitivity, which cannot always be sun's being the greatest physician of ultraviolet rays with or without heat recognized beforehand, must also be all, but unfortunately, because of the kept in mind. various seasons, sunlight varies in 44 41444114t44 41444441<4441414 414444 The only safe rule, therefore, is to quantity and quality in different places follow closely the directions given with and altitudes. For regular application each lamp, using at first the smallest of radiation similar to sunlight, sun Sducational gailures dose prescribed for that lamp. Such a lamps offer the advantage of being al- dose should never cause more than a ways available in any weather with a By HARRIET DAY slight reddening of the skin lasting radiation constant in intensity. not more than several hours after the There are three types of artificial I know a dozen college men exposure. ultraviolet light available. There are Who brag of Ph.D.'s, Yet all of them lack vitamins Best results do not depend on either carbon arc lamps, which emit both From vital A's to G's. tanning or sunburn. One can gradually ultraviolet and infrared radiations Too bad they studied all those years, increase the dosage as the skin grows much like those from the sun. These Then flunked their ABC's! more and more tolerant to the ultra- lamps consist of one or two pairs of violet rays. It is best to administer all carbon rods mounted in front of a 4 4t

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Milk for Baby to overcome; in fact, it might never be do has aggravated your problem. I overcome as it should be. think the best way is to let it work out I live on a farm and therefore have I would just keep her with me even as it will. an ample supply of milk. We have a if it means sacrificing other interests. It is difficult,, of course, for me to year-old baby, and I should like to The normal development of your advise you at a distance. but it is cer- know how to make this milk safe for baby's system is most important of tainly some psychological situation him to drink. To what temperature that has been built up. It may be that should I heat the milk, and how long because of your insistence your baby keep it at that point? lEIC SE3CSIMICSOCIOCSEMEMESPE3C1k has been made afraid that you were You are fortunate to live on a farm trying to get rid of her. with your own milk supply. The best thing to do with any milk for a small child is boil it. This boiling, of course, thoroughly sterilizes it. Eggs for Baby? Boil the milk three minutes, stirring as it boils, to prevent scum formation. My baby, seven months old, takes Cool it by pouring from pan to pan his cereal; vegetables, and fruits very until it will no longer form a scum. well. But he cannot tolerate the taste Then put it in a container and in of poached egg, which I have tried your refrigerator. It should be room several times. temperature or warmer if he likes Because I am not including meat in it that way when given to the baby. the baby's diet, should I not give him It's a eggs for protein? * * * The danger these days is to feed BIGGER babies too much. It is a mistake to Fearful Child Red Feather insist on your baby's taking something he dislikes as much as the egg. My little daughter, who is 181/2 This Year! It is not necessary for your baby months old, is getting to be quite a to have eggs. Any baby who gets the problem. When I take her to Cradle amount of milk necessary for a seven- Roll once a week we have screamings ICCIPMEMIEMMICSOICKWICIMME11011 month-old baby (about a quart daily) and almost hysterics. • is having sufficient protein. Sometime She has a fear of being left alone. later you might try giving him the If at any time she realizes I am not all. Certainly a situation that causes yolk, boiled until it is mealy. The white around, although others are there, she screaming and hysterics is one that contains protein, but the yolk iron and becomes unmanageable. She won't let has not been handled wisely, it seems vitamin A. However, there are plenty her older sister do one thing for her, to me. I think that often too much is of other ways of getting the food val- but wants me to do everything. expected of children, with resulting ues the egg will give. It seems to me that your baby is a unnecessary antagonisms and emo- The important items in your baby's little young to leave her mother and tional crises. diet are fruit in some form (probably stay in the Cradle Roll room. I do not Some children are a little slower as juice and mellow fresh fruit), some think it should be made a matter of than others to become independent, puréed vegetables daily, and a cereal. discipline at all. Such things are bet- but such a thing should be natural No sweet of any kind or butter or oils ter corrected gradually, and little by with the. growth of the child's tend- should be added to any of these foods. little a child becomes accustomed to ency to copy others. They will all come If concentrated fat or sugar is added, doing what the other children do. out about the same way in the end, the child tends to eat less of other When too great an issue is made of a even though some are later than important foods, for the concentrates situation like this, it is likely to cause others. cause the appetite to be satisfied be- a fixation in the child's emotional na- I feel quite sure that your insistence fore he gets the amount he should have ture and make it much more difficult on her doing things she is afraid to of cereals, vegetables, fruit, milk. 24 LIFE & HEALTH Of Course You Can Reduce! choice of foods, there's no mealtime (Continued from page 17) monotony. And, important too, they don't suffer from hunger pangs between meals. Now, maybe you're asking—why the rye wafers? Here are the reasons physicians so often recommend them in reducing diets: They give you the proteins, minerals, and B vitamins of whole-grain rye in a wafer that contains only twenty-three calories. LUNCH OR SUPPER What's more—being crisp and chewy, Vitamin A as Carotene is present Choose one food and only one from each they help you to eat more slowly, giv- in Eveready Carrot Juice in three group. Do not skip any group. ing you a sense of satiety. You can forms ... Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Group 6—Main dishes. No sauces, gravies, enjoy them without "fattening" or added fat. The Beta type of Carotene, which Dried beans, dried peas, dried spreads. In the process of digestion yields twice as much Vitamin A in lentils 1/ 3 cup they absorb moisture and increase the body as the other two, abounds Cottage cheese 1/3 cup bulk, which make you feel filled and in Eveready Carrot Juice. Macaroni and cheese 1/3 cup stave off hunger. All this adds up to Soufflé, Spanish rice 1/2 cup Only Carrots grown in California American or Swiss cheese 1 slice an ideal, natural food for reducers. Stuffed pepper 1 Take a look at the chart showing are used for Eveready Carrot Juice. Large egg 1 ideal weights for height and medium These carrots develop to maturity in Pecan halves, walnut halves, whole build. This chart shows the approxi- the mild weather of California and filberts, or whole almonds 12 are taken from the ground in mid- Group mate weight for adults of medium 7—Vegetables. Season only with winter when they contain the maxi- salt. frame between twenty-five and thirty Greens, pumpkin, sauerkraut, years of age. Beyond thirty it is con- mum of Carotene. summer squash % cup sidered unhealthful to gain weight. * For free pamphlet of recipes Green beans, diced beets, pars- and vitamin facts, write nips, turnips Dole Sales Co., 215 Market 1/3 cup St., San Francisco 6, Calif. Cabbage, winter squash, to- Ideal Weights for Adults of Medium Frame matoes 1/3 cup LOOK FOR Group 8—Whole-grain wafers, such as rye Height in Weight in Pounds crackers plain or toasted .... 4 wafers Feet and Inches Men Women 116 Group 9—Butter or margarine, on wafers 1 118 EVEREADY or in cooking 1 teaspoon 2 129 121 Group 10—Beverage. Skim milk .... 1 cup 3 132 124 CARROT JUICE 4 135 128 Group 11—Desserts. Serve without cream, 5 139 131 sugar, or sauce. 6 142 135 at your health food store and grocer's Any fruit under Group 1 or any des- 7 146 139 8 150 142 sert under Group 18. 9 155 146 10 158 150 11 162 153 167 157 1 172 2 178 IF YOU DON'T DRINK 3 183 why pay for the accidents From Statistical Bulletin, Metropolitan Insurance Company. of those who do?

We insure automobiles—all coverages, standard policy—only for persons who do not use Just how unhealthful it is to weigh alcoholic beverages. We thus avoid paying losses caused by the drink-driver—and our DINNER too much you can see by a quick look policyholders get an especially low rate, re- Group 12—Main dishes. Choose only one at the following charts showing the ducing even further after claim-free years. Get full information on our "Merit Reduc- food from Group 6. influence of overweight on mortality tion Plan" and our nation-wide claim service Group 13—Substantial vegetables or in persons aged forty-five to fifty. approved by 98.7% of our, policyholders. Just starchy foods. Choose one. send a postcard to Green Lima beans, plain grits, Department L&H green peas, brown rice 1/2 cup Overweight Percentage of in- Small potato, baked or boiled (Pounds) creased mortality PREFERRED RISK above average sweet 1/2 ; white 1 MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. Group 14—Other vegetables. Choose any 10 8 20 18 Des Moines, Iowa two in Group 7. 30 28 Have one raw as a salad with tea- 40 45 spoon boiled dressing. 50 56 60 67 Group 15—Whole-grain wafers plain 70 81 or toasted 2 wafers 80 116 Group 16—Butter or margarine. As in Group 9. Group 17—Beverage. Skim milk 1 cup Just imagine missing 28 per cent of SUBSCRIBE TO Group 18—Desserts. Choose only one food your life—equal to April, May, June, from this group. (44 Apricot, prune, or banana and part of July every year—because . and whip; plain gelatin 1/2 cup you overate, and are thirty pounds Plain cupcake, fig bar, plain overweight! cooky 1 medium Play fair with your health—reduce Those who have followed this diet so that you'll be less likely to become report losses of about two pounds a a vital statistic before your time—and FOR YOUR FAMILY'S SAKE! week. Furthermore, they say they en- you and public health officials will be joy their meals because, with the wide a lot happier! NOVEMBER. 1951 25 "We can decide on the menu later. We know we will serve foods containing some protein, some fat, some sugar, and some starch." Winifred spoke again. "We will have Wings of Health to prepare foods that contain minerals, such as calcium, phosphorus, and iron." "Oh," said Frank with a shrug of y MADGE HAINES MORRILL, M.A. the shoulders, "that doesn't sound like zaiLL good-tasting food—calcium, phosphorus, and iron." A CLUB FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Alice said seriously, "Those minerals are part of a good meal. But when INDIANS AT SCHOOL we girls prepare a table full of appetizing food you won't even be thinking I NDIANS were running in the school- James said, "It will have to be a of those names. We will have Sovex house—down the aisles of the class- well-balanced dinner, you know, be- canapes, egg-yolk dressing on a pretty room and through the halls. cause Wings of Health Club members vegetable salad, and some nuts in little The boys and girls in Miss White's know what foods are necessary for a cups—why, you won't even know you room sat at their desks and watched healthful meal." are eating those minerals. It will all the "Indians" parading in fine feathers Ruth turned to the girls. "Perhaps taste delicious, yet will be good for and beaded clothes. They were chil- we should begin reading and studying your health." dren from the primary grades practic- a little more about the right kind of Frank and the boys were looking at ing for a Thanksgiving program, who food." each other with pleased smiles. He had come to show their costumes. Alice opened a health book. "I was whispered, "Maybe you girls don't Robert, one of the little Indian boys, just reading in this book about a bal- work so hard as we boys do, but you said, "We are going to dress like this anced diet. Proteins are necessary for certainly know the kinds of foods a for the program." growth and body repair. A balanced person should have. I can hardly wait James asked, "Will there be any Pil- meal should have some protein. Foods until that dinner." grims on your program?" that contain proteins are milk, cheese, "We must not forget to have foods "Oh, yes," said Robert. "Some of the beans, and eggs." that are rich in vitamins," Ruth said. other boys and girls are going to be Winifred spoke up: "The book I "A good meal will have vitamins A, B, Pilgrims. But we are the Indians. read this morning told about fats, C, and D. They are necessary for Whoo-o-o-o !" He tried to give a war sugars, and starches. These food ele- health and growth. They are found in whoop. ments give fuel and help our body green, leafy vegetables. We will have When the last Indian had gone from machines to keep working. The more a yellow vegetable too. Scalloped car- the room, Miss White explained: "Part you work, the more fuel your body rots would be good." of the Thanksgiving program will be needs." "Of course," said Winifred. "And given by those primary children. Now Frank said with an inquisitive note there will be whipped cream on the we want you older boys and girls to in his voice, "Is that the reason we pumpkin pie. A platter of stuffed eggs plan the other part of the program. and tall goblets of bright red tomato What would you like to do?" juice would look pretty on the table. Ruth suggested, "We could have The world needs the smiles that you That would supply vitamins A and C. something about our Wings of Health can give. Vitamin B would be in the hot whole- Club." wheat buns." "Yes," said James. "We could have "I'd like a fruit basket on each plate a scene with Indians and: Pilgrims for the first course," Ruth said. "We standing around the table feasting. boys eat so much? Because we do more make fruit baskets by scraping out the Then the next scene could be a modern work than the girls?" pith of an orange, cutting a handle Thanksgiving dinner table set with a The girls laughed merrily. "Maybe across the top, and filling the little balanced meal as prepared by the you do, eat more, but we are not sure basket with diced fruit." Wings of Health Club members." that you work more. It takes a lot of "0 girls," pleaded Frank, "why "That would make an interesting brain work to prepare a good meal." don't you plan the menu when we are part on the program, especially if we Ruth was ready to tell something not around? You make us hungry just boys could be sitting around the table else. "A balanced meal should have to hear you talk about the food." eating. I would like that part," said fats, sugars, and starches. These ele- "Whoop-o-o-o !" came shouts from Frank. ments are found in cream, butter, under the window. Ruth and the girls were laughing. olives, and similar foods. Potatoes, James glanced out of the window "What could we girls do for our part bread, and cereals contain starches. and smiled. "The little Indians are still on the program?" she asked. The best kinds of sugars are those in getting ready for their part on the "You could cook the food," Frank fruits. We should be careful not to program." answered. eat too much of the other kind of Frank said, "Our part will be deli- Miss White said : "You both have sugar, although some is good for body cious, I know, from all the good things a good plan. We can include three energy." the girls are planning to cook for us scenes: a table to represent the first Frank was waving his hand, "I want boys." Thanksgiving dinner, the girls in a to know what we boys are going to "Oh," Ruth laughed, "we girls are kitchen preparing Thanksgiving din- have to eat. Can't you girls tell us going to help you boys eat—we will set ner, and the boys enjoying the dinner. now?" a long table that will have room for But one of the points to settle is what "First we need to know more about both the girls and boys at the Thanks- you will have on the menu." the right kind of foodi" Ruth told him. giving feast!" 26 LIFE & HEALTH Why Nose Colds From Cold Feet? affected areas may relieve headache caused by muscle spasm. (Continued from page 19) The best and usually the only way A certain professor of pharmacology of preventing tension headaches is to used to say cif the drug treatment of lessen the intensity and duration of colds that "a drug once administered emotional tension. You cannot do this goes to all parts of the body, affecting unless you understand the basis of all tissues and every cell. Drugs are your tension and the factors in your given to produce a predominant effect life that aggravate it. on some particular organ, but in so Temperance in all things and an doing they may affect some other attitude of faith, trust, thankfulness, organ in a detrimental way. We rob and helpfulness toward God and our Peter to pay Paul, when sometimes fellow men are the essentials of the Peter cannot afford to lose." For in- healthful way of life. Be sure of your health! One way is to stance, if we give morphine for pain, get plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits! With the K & K Shredder and Juicer, you it binds up the intestinal tract. get fresh juice and shredded vegetables Hydrotherapy exacts no such price. whenever you need them! The K & K Juicer A cold treated by natural means gets gives 20% more juice with its 3000 pounds better in half the time. of positive-action hydraulic pressure. The all caoaquet K & K Juicer is the only one of its kind Thus simple treatments are efficient on the market that delivers pulp-free juice. and scientific. How much more helpful For delicious soups, salads, and desserts, they can be than something taken out By SELINA PUTNAM the K & K Shredder shreds quickly, of a bottle only their use will demon- efficiently and economically! BOTH UNITS Sprigs of spruce and hemlock GIVE YOU DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS FOOD! strate. Their use, however, requires a In a fall bouquet little effort, which to some constitutes On my patient's table an obstacle. But how exceedingly well Lead my thoughts astray: expended is the energy that goes into Gray skies of November, such treatments, and how richly it will Leaves of gold and brown. be repaid ! Undulating sky line Many miles from town. Bothpriced.sendfrcompletede units or economically :Rug Hills that leave one breathless, Wild geese overhead, FREE tails. No obligation, LH-11 Tension Headache Squirrels dashing treeward. Oak leaves darkest red. KNUTH ENGINEERING CO (Continued from page 13) 2617 N. ST. LOUIS AVE., CHICAGO 47, ILL Tufted pine-grove carpet you probably accept it as part of the Peace-filled solitude, price of accomplishment. This is a sen- Only kindred spirits sible attitude if it leads you to let up, Share the autumn mood. IF YOU LIKE YOGURT as soon as you can, on the fatiguing Strange the heart to garner— or BUTTERMILK, Try and tension-producing activity that Far away are these— Instant-Made INSTA'CHURT All the woodland fragrance caused the headache. In an autumn breeze. Since Biblical days, lactic sour milks have With a knowledge of the sources of been famed as healthful, wholesome foods. Strange to feel the sting of Fresh "slow set" type milks are at times tension, you can plan your own treat- difficult to get, and even more difficult to ment of your headache and prevention Cool rain in one's face make without spoilage. Try this instant lac- of future headaches. Perhaps you need Seeing hemlock branches tic milk maker . . . more sleep. If your work is sedentary, In a patient's vase. a— you will be relaxed by physical exer- INSTA' CHURT cise, especially out of doors. Sometimes Just add a teaspoonful of INSTA'CHURT to a a tension headache may be relieved by glass of whole, skim, or canned milk. Presto—you get a tasty glass of lactic milk, thicker than butter- an alternately hot-and-cold shower, milk, finer textured than yogurt. Infants and Flies with several changes. Lying quietly in INSTA'CHURT acidified milk contains extra iron ACCORDING (deficient in yogurt or buttermilk) and has more a tub of tepid water for thirty or forty to the United States lactic acid and lactose. This important aid to in- minutes may enable you to relax. Public Health Service, a definite rela- testinal flora discourages putrefaction, encourages regularity. INSTA'CHURT digests with the ease You can frequently get relief from tionship exists between the deaths of of the ideal food, human breast milk. tension headaches by drinking coffee, infants from diarrhea and the preva- At most dietary food stores. Will ship post- tea, or cola drinks, or by taking head- lence of flies in a community. If flies paid where not available. 4-Ounce Bottle (makes 32 cups) $1 ache medicines. The caffeine most of could be eliminated, the health service Double Size $1.75 these contain is a stimulant, and the estimates that one third to one half of feeling of fatigue is removed. The re- all intestinal dysentery could be pre- NEW! WHEAT-GERM OIL lief is deceptive, because you feel like vented. Whether the virus of infantile Combined with potent Carrot Oil Each ounce represents 80 mg. of alpha-tocolilwrid continuing the activity that caused the paralysis is spread through the air, (Vitamin E) plus 5000 units of carotene 'vitamin A fatigue and tension. Thus you become in food, or by flies scientists have not (125% M.D.R.). Use this protective food daily as is or as a French dressing base instead of denim more tense and tired. yet discovered. Until the answer is minized salad oils. Ask for Carotenized Wheat There are medicines, such as ergot- found you should do all possible about Germ Oil. 4-Ounce Bottle, Only $1.50 amine tartrate, that can relieve some all three, for the predictions are that Pint, $4.90 Postpaid tension headaches, especially migraine. this may be another bad poliomyelitis A cold compress to the head may help year, probably worse than last year. SCHIFF 1310 FOODS headaches caused by stretching of ar- The disease has been on a marked in- Dept. I.H 10 Jersey City 3, N.J. teries. Heat and massage over the crease since 1943.

NOVEMBER, 1951 27 LUCILLE J. GOTHAM

If you have a question or problem regarding food or diet, address: The Dietitian, LIFE Cr HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C. Enclose stamped, addressed envelope for reply.

Apple Coffee Cake Check your food intake with the 2 squares butter following diet, which shows what a cup creamy cottage cheese and 7 walnut Will you please print a recipe for boy your age and size usually should kernels or 8 almonds (if preferred, yeast-raised apple coffee cake? eat. You may by careful checking find a cup of skim milk and a cup of fruit Apple coffee cake is easily prepared. where you have been in error. For may replace the cheese and nuts) Roll out enough bread or sweet roll instance, you may have been eating too dough to cover the bottom of a square much spaghetti and not enough milk. * * * cake pan, making it a half inch in You will want to ask your doctor about thickness. Place the dough in the but- an actual cut in your diet. Most over- Diabetic Dainties tered tin. Cover it with sliced fresh As a school nurse I visit many dia- or frozen apples. betics. Have you a recipe for diabetic Sprinkle sugar or dribble honey custard? Are there any diabetic can- over the apples. A cup of sugar or dies, jellies, and cookies? 3/4 cup of honey should be enough. Beat an egg and add to it two table- A variety of lovely custards may be spoons of cream, a pinch of salt, and made by using for flavoring such ex- a half teaspoon of vanilla. Pour this tracts as vanilla, lemon, almond, or- mixture on top. Finally add a sprinkle ange, peppermint, or any others you of grated orange rind. Let the coffee may have available. The custards may cake stand in a warm place about an be colored with- pure-food colorings to hour to rise, and then bake. weight folks are rapid eaters. Often add to their attractiveness. by eating slowly and chewing thor- Some health cooks add wheat germ Diabetic Custard to their white flour for all cooking pur- oughly a person is satisfied with much poses to make it nutritionally more less food. 1 cup milk from diet like whole-wheat flour. They do this Flavoring and coloring as desired A Normal Diet for a Growing Boy 1 egg from diet by mixing a level tablespoon of wheat I grain sucaryl germ into each cup of white flour. (3000 Calories, 125 Grams of Protein) Bake in buttered mold set in a pan of Breakfast water, with the oven temperature set * * * 2 eggs (one may be taken later in the about 300° F. Bake until a silver knife day) comes out clean. 1 cup milk to drink (hot on cold days) Food for a Plump Boy 2 slices whole-wheat toast For ice cream the diabetic custard 2 squares butter can be frozen. Ice cream is also al- Please print a diet that will make lowed by many physicians occasionally me lose some of my plumpness, so that 1 cup fruit (orange, grapefruit, or tomato or as a juice) by substitution in this way. If the diet I will look good in a basketball suit. cup cereal allows a half cup or 100 grams of po- I am a boy of fourteen. cup milk for cereal tato, the same amount of regular You are at the age when boys grow 20 shelled peanuts (with the red skins commercial ice cream from the drug- rapidly, often adding several inches left on) store will replace it close enough for in a year if their diet is adequate and 3 prunes, an apple, or a banana most diabetics. they have sufficient sleep. You need Dinner Many children enjoy a graham plenty of the substantial foods such as 1 cup cooked navy, Lima, or other beans cracker as much as a cooky. Two gra- milk, whole-wheat bread, baked beans, or peas, potatoes, or corn ham crackers replace a slice of bread apples, peanuts, potatoes, and cottage 1 cup cooked green or yellow vegetable in a diabetic diet. Diabetic candies and cheese plus other important food prod- 1 cup raw vegetable salad jellies are available in the special food ucts. Very often unwanted plumpness 2 cups milk departments of large city department is due to eating between meals or from 2 slices whole-wheat bread stores. By careful study of the labels an unbalanced ration of too much fat 1 square butter 1 cup fruit or a peach, an apple, a pear. you can adapt them to the diet safely. and starch with not nearly enough For something sweet and sticky to eat protein. If your crowd frequents a Supper on toast, thicken water with gum soda bar, try ordering orange juice or 1 cup peas, Lima or kidney beans, pu- tragacanth or India gum from the dry ginger ale as the least fattening of tatoes, corn, or spaghetti drugstore, add sucaryl for sweetness, the things they offer. 2 slices whole-wheat bread and finally a drop of mapeline.

28 LITE & HEALTH

Be Careful About Prescriptions (Continued from page 11) and cortisone, not to mention hundreds of older medications, are also limited to prescription sale by State or Fed- eral law. Some drugs are relatively harmless in themselves but are used for such serious ailments that a physician's care is essential. New drugs that have not been ade- quately tested are kept off the market by FDA until clinical investigations have established their safety. And all drugs that are known to be dangerous for the layman to use without super- 0' vision by a doctor are required by law • to have this wording on the label: t • Caution: To be dispensed only on the prescription of a physician. This wording on the original package, known to the drug trade and medical profession as the prescription It's Easy to Count Your Calories with legend, is the signal that tells the retail druggist whether you must present a doctor's prescription in order to buy a certain medicine. Sale of the PRATT-LOW drug without such a prescription results in violation of Federal law, subject to criminal penalties. Many people, including some doctors and druggists, do not realize fully the CALIFORNIA FRUITS AND VEGETABLES responsibility of the retail pharmacist, who is licensed by the State to be the — The calories per ounce are on the label ! If you're watching your custodian of drugs in your community, weight, don't starve to keep slim! Eat tasty, economical Pratt-Low Dietetic- with the duty of seeing that they are Pack fruits and vegetables ... especially -prepared for those who must count sold only according to law. To urge calories and sugar intake. Pratt-Low Dietetic-Pack foods are naturally the druggist to sell a prescription drug good — there's no added sugar or salt. And you know to the ounce your over the counter or to refill an expired caloric intake ... the calorie-count is on the label! prescription is to urge him to break the law. YOUR TWIN ASSURANCES OF DEPENDABILITY Here are several things you should Guaranteedby '- These Seals have been earned Thompson Seedless Grapes, always bear in mind concerning pre- Good Housekeeping by the following Pratt-Low Hawaiian Pineapple, Spinach, Dietetic Foods:—California Asparagus, Blue Lake Beans. scriptions, for your health's sake: aprIM110 Peaches, Apricots, Pears, 1. Get your prescription filled promptly at a reliable drugstore. Here's a recipe booklet especially for 2. Take or give any medicine only those who must watch their calories or :7;44 r 4.to / according to the directions. sugar intake. Prepared by a Staff Doctor 3. Do not urge your druggist to re- and the Chief Dietitian of a leading San fill a prescription unless authorized by Francisco hospital, this booklet contains 48 tested sugarless recipes—low in calo- the doctor—a telephone call will usu- ries, high in flavor. There's nothing to buy ally suffice. —nothing to send but this convenient 4. Do not urge your druggist to sell coupon for this helpful booklet. you a restricted drug. It is embarrass- ing and may be dangerous for him— and for you. P-4-6-4Y-/iYiktirktliVi 6116 a6 ins/VeireCilitliVii 11'1XilYek irilIN-Kgerr•mtrai...... teiTilYarrf 5. A prescription is for a specific PRESERVING CO., Santa Clara, California till, PRATT-LOW I:.....g.4 illness. Do not allow the unused re- Att'n: Mrs. Martha U. Alden mainder of old prescriptions to accu- tll Please send me your free recipe booklet, "Eating Can Still Be Fun for Those on Restricted 1-% mulate in the family medicine cabinet * Diets." III NAMF where children or adults can get them. till, 1-11 To do so may result in serious acci- Address City dents. Especially throw out all bottles Please give us the name and address of your grocer and indicate whether he stocks Pratt- ti. Low Dietetic Foods. Thank you. and jars with unidentified contents. Stocks Pratt-Low Yes No Grocer's name ill Dietetic Foods 6. If your illness persists—no Address matter what you are taking—see your till 111; I Int,11 VA03 doctor, and be sure to let him know TAMFAtAAlly1 MACJIASITAIIIAMIXRAIAR II.W0.1.,1,1,. 11 ,1A• :IAS IVI yAVIAttAl VA V' liXtIAMEAV if you have been taking any medicine PRATT-LOW PRESERVING CO. SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA he has not prescribed. Producers of Fine Quality Foods Since 1905 NOVEMBER, 1951 29 When writing, please enclose stamped, addressed envelope for reply. Address: Home Editor, LIFE ty HEALTH, Washington 12, D.C.

Folding Clothes Rack. Wintry days Some of the leaves, already coming out Walnut Gluten Roast. A reader re- are problems when it comes to laun- when we moved it, were a little dam- cently asked for a recipe for gluten dry. A folding clothes rack helps a lot aged in transit. But we were happily roast. I give one here that has ap- when washing little things—stockings, surprised at our tree-moving job. And peared in LIFE AND HEALTH before. dish towels, baby's wee garments. The when a little song sparrow perched in 8 cups bread flour (white) rack is a good place for freshly ironed it and sang, we knew it was accepted 2 2/3 cups water pieces, so they will be thoroughly dry as a tree in spite of the stubby ends Mix flour and water to a stiff dough. when put away. A writer in the Farm where some of the branches had to be Knead thoroughly and soak in cold Journal suggested hanging this rack removed. water one-half hour. Wash out the on the wall, where it serves the old ICIE3C3011,141101MIC3E3CSIXICIMEXIMM4 starch, changing water five or six purposes, and can be folded back when times. The stringy gluten mass re- one is through with it. maining is the foundation for the Are You 1 ored roast. Into this mix: Time to Go Nutting. If the Keelers 1 cup ground walnut meats have a favorite tune, it is the Nut- By MILDRED L. JUDKINS 1 small onion chopped fine cracker tune. With us it begins in the 2 eggs nutty month of November. We have It's fun to watch the chickadee— Sage and salt His tiny little bill hickory nuts and butternuts on our Playing pizzicato on your Press this dough out flat into well- farm, and our neighbors give us lots Kitchen window sill. oiled shallow baking pans. Cover with of black walnuts. boiling Vegex sauce (one pint water We spread the walnuts out on the He flutters like an autumn leaf, Then suddenly he's there plus two teaspoons Vegex) and bake cement floor and run across them sev- To cock his saucy skullcap three hours. Keep it covered with boil- eral times with the rubber-tired trac- And read your bill o' fare. ing water until at the last, when the tor to remove the stainy hulls. We put top may be allowed to brown as in the nuts in shallow trays and leave He'll try most anything you have; But how his eyes will glow baking beans. them in the sun a few days to dry. Up When you've myriads of sunflower seeds to the attic they go to finish drying, Sprinkled in the snow. still in shallow trays or boxes. Cutting Cake. A certain friend of We keep a box behind the kitchen 'Tis then that you're accredited mine can get more pieces out of a range, with the hammer and a thick And listed with the best layer cake than I ever was able to, and By this "Duncan Hines" of birdland yet they don't look skimpy. I watched flat stone in it, and every now and then In his never-ending quest. you hear the Nutcracker song. It may her do it. She cuts a circle about two be dad finishing off dinner with a few ACIESC).3A34,1444:3440€0.30(3 inches from the edge, thus making a nut meats, or Johnny, or just as likely smaller cake in the middle of the larger mother. Patsy doesn't crack any nuts. Flower Arrangement. Not many cake. She first slices the outside rim, She simply stands hopefully by, wait- flowers are left when November ar- and then the smaller circle within, ing for any that come her way. Daddy rives—probably only a few sturdy making twice as many pieces as with fills up her toy truck or some little box chrysanthemums. But there are pine the old method. Of course the outside for her. and hemlock and other evergreen pieces have the most icing. Nut meats are grand additions to branches we can use for a festive touch almost any recipe, but you savor the of green. Or there are bushes that have Paper Towels. It's a fine thing to flavor most by eating just nuts. colorful berries; bittersweet, for ex- have plenty of paper towels. Spill Next year we hope to add English ample. To accept your flowers or green- something on the floor? Wipe it up walnuts to our menu. We had a thirty- ery, use vases simple in design, un- quickly with a paper towel. Rover com- foot tree given us. Getting it from adorned, and of neutral colors—grays, ing in with muddy paws? Wipe your where it was, over by Seneca Lake, to white, soft greens, blues, and browns. feet, doggy! Grease in your skillet? where it is, near Keuka Lake, was A needle-type holder can be bought at Wipe out the excess with a paper quite a feat, but finally by manipulat- a florist shop or a hardware store, to towel! Mud on your shoes? Paper ing and much maneuvering with trac- support your bouquet. Crumpled towels again. After washing lettuce or tor and truck, with ropes and cables chicken wire can be forced into a con- radishes let them drain on a paper fastened to the pump and the pear tree, tainer, and the stems of the bouquet towel. Wrap lettuce in damp towel and it stood up straight and tall at last. will be held in place by the mesh. put in refrigerator. 30 LIFE & HEALTH

Prate *eelt

GARDEN

Be Safe - CULTIVATING ASPARAGUS with By FLOYD BRALLIAR, Ph.D. CERAPLEX SPARAGUS is not only one of the rich soil fertilized to a depth of 12 to A FOOD SUPPLEMENT A most expensive vegetables to buy 14 inches. The only time to do this fer- OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT but also one of the easiest to grow if tilizing is before the plants are set. planted at the proper time and cared Throw out all the soil where the aspar- It's organic base of wheat, alfalfa, for as it should be. In order to do its agus is to be planted to a depth of 18 parsley, watercress, rice, yeast, best, it should be planted in very rich, or 20 inches, and fill up the bottom six corn and kelp, provides, in natural reasonably well-drained soil. It is inches with one part stable manure to form, the essential food factors more likely to do well if planted in four parts soil. Fill in the next four necessary for the maintenance of November than in spring, but it may inches with one part stable manure to maximum nutritional health. These be planted in March. six parts soil. Fill in two inches of are blended and fortified to insure The man who grows asparagus good garden topsoil, and you are ready full potency of all 25 ingredients. plants for market cannot afford to go to plant. This fill should bring the bed Write for Free Illustrated Folder. out and dig a few every day or two as within six inches of the top. Deeper Bottles of 360 Tablets, $6.45 the orders may come in, and because planting discourages asparagus. At your favorite healthfood store or from his plants are ordered from all parts Drop plants every sixteen inches, of the United States he usually digs with the roots spread out. Cover with them in the fall, sorts and ties them in three inches of soil. Fill in more soil bundles, and stacks them in a store- after the young shoots emerge. house. Most Southern gardeners think These directions are for ordinary asparagus should be set out in the soil, but for sandy soil set the plants The spring, so the local seedman orders an inch deeper. Broadcast two or three MODERN METHOD VITA-MIX makes it plants and puts them on display in the pounds of some complete fertilizer on easy to get essential spring. He usually puts them on dis- every five hundred square feet as a top vitamins and minerals from fruits and vegeta- play outdoors, where the sun shines on dressing, and rake it into the surface bles. them several hours every day, and the soil when you fill up the trench. Why throw away most of the food value when moisture in the plants is gradually Do not cut any asparagus from your peeling fruits and vege- dried out. By the time the ordinary bed before the second year, then only tables? gardener gets his plants and sets them for two weeks. The third year it can VITA-MIX keeps all the vitamins and natural fla- out they are so weakened that they do be cut for a full month. After the third vors. It whips, chops, and liquefies fruits and not do well. year it can be cut for two months every vegetables into appetizing To avoid the common troubles in es- year. drinks without peeling or tablishing asparagus, the gardener will Cut the tops of the asparagus level cooking. VITA-MIX makes health note the following standards for plant- with the top of the ground as soon as drinks, soup, cake batter, grinds grain, chops sal- The Only Machine ing. First, only large, well-grown, one- they die from frost, and burn them to ads, whips cream, pu- year-old crowns that have not been make sure they do not carry disease With Stainless Steel rees food, lightens kitchen Bowl and Bakelite chores. SELF-CLEANING crowded in the seedling row should be to the bed. Fertilize moderately at this Handle. 1 Yr. Guar. —just add soap, water, used for planting. The average person time every year. NOW $29.95 and turn on! thinks that if he can get two- or three- Set the asparagus bed at the edge PLUS VALUABLE GIFT year-old plants, he will gain by it. But of the garden where it will not cause Electric Popcorn Popper. No stirring, no mess. this is not true of asparagus plants. inconvenience in cultivating the rest Use it in living room! Dry plants cannot do well. It is diffi- of the garden. Corn Popper $ 5.29 Planted and cared for properly, as- VITA-MIX (Reg.) 34.95 cult to dig out two- or three-year-old Value $40.24 crowns without severe injury to the paragus will produce and do well for You Pay 29.95 storage roots. In sections where the fifteen years. You Save $10.29 plants bloom the first year it is possi- This perennial vegetable is seldom Order Before Rearmament Stops Production! ble to select the statninate, or male, bothered by insects or diseases. The Natural Foods plants, which outyield the female asparagus beetle (which has a dark- Dept. AH5, Olmsted Falls, Ohio crowns. It would be a fine thing if we gray, soft-bodied larva and blue-black I enclose $29.95. Rush me your Vita-Mix plus could set a patch of all male plants, adult somewhat less than a half inch FREE gift Corn Popper. but it is not practical, because separat- in size, with red and yellow markings) Name ing the plants is too much trouble. may sometimes cause trouble, but it is Street Asparagus should be planted in very not common in home gardens. City State

NOVEMBER, 1951 31 EXERCISES FOR WEAK FEET

By STELLA C. PETERSON, R.N.

HE first objective in a program of Sitting Position exercise for weak feet is to develop "There's Health in the Hills T 1. With the feet resting parallel on of East Tennessee" correct habits of standing and walking. The correct standing position is a bath towel, gather the towel under when you need a quiet place to regain the feet with the toes. nervous energy, here where Nature con- feet parallel, toes pointing straight spires in beautiful surroundings to help ahead, weight on the outer, fore part 2. Roll a rubber ball between the bring it about. soles of the feet. This modern Hospital offers the finest of the feet. The correct walking posi- in medical and surgical care plus the new tion is feet parallel, toes pointing 3. Bend the toes downward over the Sanitarium section with its unique features. straight ahead, weight on the outer edge of a block of wood. Special emphasis is placed on physical 4. Grasp a marble with toes, turn therapy, such as hydrotherapy and elec- and fore part of the feet. trotherapy, and also on proper diet. Well-made and properly fitted shoes fore part of foot inward, carrying Mental and tubercular cases not ac- marble forward toward other foot, and cepted. Write for free Booklet "A." are a prime requisite for weak feet. Preferably they have a leather sole drop marble in dish. Repeat with other Takoma Hospital and Sanitarium and heel and a straight inner border. foot. The heel of the shoe should be broad 5. With feet resting parallel eight GREENEVILLE, TENN. enough to carry two thirds of the body inches apart, roll feet onto outer bor- weight. The toe should be wide enough ders, keeping toes flexed. to permit the toes to spring naturally 6. With knees crossed—turn fore and bear weight normally. part of foot in, then up, keeping toes Give your feet a contrast bath and flexed. massage before exercising them. For All exercises must be done slowly, the contrast bath use two deep buck- carefully, and steadily. As the muscles WHEAT GERM of the feet become stronger, the num- `WHEAT GERM ets. Fill one two thirds full of water Niblack WHEAT GERM is ber of exercises can be increased. chock-full of the kind of as warm as can be tolerated safely food energy that makes 41 and comfortably. Those who have dia- First month, do each exercise ten you feel better — enjoy • times twice a day. Second month, life more ! Use as ready- betes or arteriosclerosis affecting the to-eat cereal, or in making blood vessels of the legs should use the gradually increase to fifteen times candies and baked goods twice a day. Third month, continue Remarkably rich in vitamins, water only warm, not hot. Fill the minerals and protein. 2, 16-oz. other bucket two thirds full of cold gradually to increase to twenty times packages of Niblack Wheat Germ, twice a day. After three months the total $1.00 postpaid. Ask for quantity tap water. Put the feet in the warm prices on wheat germ and other Niblack water for four minutes, and then in muscles of the feet should be strong food products from your Health Food enough that weight-bearing exercises deale, or WRITE DIRECT TODAY ! the cold for one minute. Alternate Magnolia Street from hot to cold water for twenty- can be attempted in the standing posi- NIBLACK FOODSRochester. l New York five minutes, or about four times. Be- tion. gin and end with hot water. Weight-bearing Exercises Massage the feet and legs, employ- ing deep, firm, and rhythmical strokes. 1. Stand with toes projecting over Use talcum powder or olive oil to keep the edge of a step. Bend toes down. the hands from sticking. Always mas- 2. Stand with toes turned in, heels sage toward the heart—from tip of apart. Rise on toes, keeping knees toes to foot, from fore part of foot to straight, throwing weight on the outer ankle, and from ankle to knee. Strok- border of feet. ing, friction, and stroking are the 3. Stand with feet parallel. Rise to

Beautifully Located in a Suburb movements of massage to be used. Be- outer border of feet with toes flexed; of Our Nation's Capital gin and end massage of each part with return to first position without letting THIS modern general hospital stroking. Give friction with the fingers the arch sag. maintains therapeutic standards aimed or thumb used flat on the part with 4. Walk with the weight on the at bringing new strength and vigor to body, mind, and spirit of each medical, a rotary motion. outer border of the feet, keeping the surgical, and obstetrical case admitted. Exercises are first given in the sit- feet parallel, toes flexed. ting position for a period of three Judgment must be used as to the EUGENE LELAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL months. The purpose of these exer- amount of exercise the foot will stand. Riverdale, Maryland cises is to raise the arch and roll the Do not allow the feet to become too weight on the outer border of the feet. tired. 32 LIFE & HEALTH EFFECTIVE HELP FOR NEURITIS, COLDS, "FLU" with THERMOPHORE "HOT APPLICATIONS" Simple • Fast • Easy-to-Use RELAX with relief from pain and soreness under quick, electric, moist heat "hot applications" (fomenta- dons). Ready at the snap of switch . . the Battle Creek THERMO- PHORE gives you convenient. pain-soothing heat . . . no wet towels ... replaces messy old-style "hot packs". USED AND APPROVED BY FAMOUS SANITARIUMS, A professional appliance, yet safely, easily used at home-- satisfied users testify to the effectiveness of the Battle Creek THERMOPHORE when moist heat is desired. Large unit is 27' x 13' .. uses AC or DC cur- rent ... 2 washable cov- ers, safety thermostat. switch, 10-ft. cord. California Fruit Growers' Exchange WRITE TODAY for Literature Neat' BATTLE CREEK EQUIPMENT CO. Dept. L-111 By LOUISE PRICE BELL Battle Creek (The Healthy City) Michigan

Lemon sherbet, healthful, delicious, and always welcome, is a perfect finish for a hearty, heavy winter meal. If you canned any strawberries, New! serve a few over the top of the sherbet when you want an extra-special dessert. EXCLUSIVE! Here is a very simple recipe that is always popular. Boil one cup Golden Chip Flaked of water and two cups of sugar together five minutes; pour syrup into _ two stiffly beaten egg whites. Add one cup lemon juice and one cup Brewers Yeast water. Pour into freezing tray; set control at fast freezing. Freeze stiff, with A.P.F. Vitamin B- 12 beating or stirring occasionally. Makes one quart. Better, Natural Vitamins— Tissue-Building Protein

This new chipped Brewer's Yeast, unlike the ordinary powdered type, is ha Je fe Je slAe ie sl1e SV\d sve svw slAa delicious and provides 2-way nutrition: I. It provides complete B-complex . . . includ- PN(PN( MNPR ON(F ON( ON(R MNP MNPF PN(ONPONPF a\ig MNPR MN( ing B-1, B-2, Niacin, Choline, Inositol, and many others natural to dried yeast. 2. It is fortified with the fabulous Vitamin B-12. This is important, because Vitamin B-12 is a spe- The Cost of Health For drugs we spent $1,400,000,000, cial Animal Protein Factor from Vegetarian sources which makes the Yeast protein biologically more but to assuage our alcoholic thirst, we nutritive for adults. It also has beneficial influence IF you think that medical care is spent more than three times that on children's growth. expensive and that you are spending amount—$7,900,000,000. INEXPENSIVE PROTEIN more for it than for other items in And for other miscellaneous health- 1 OC worth or 11/2 ounces provides the following MDR:* your budget, compare these figures: care items we paid $2,400,000,000, but --nyr. vitamin B-1; 200% vitamin B-2; 250% Nia- on the golf course and other forms of cin; 36% Complete Protein, improved by the pres- Last year we Americans, according to ence of Vitamin B-12; plus 100% of daily adult the U.S. Department of Commerce, recreation we spent four times that needs of iron for building blood hemoglobin. Also contains many other trace vitamins and minerals spent $2,300,000,000 in doctor bills, amount—more than $10,000,000,000. naturally present in good dried yeasts. but we spent almost twice that much All of which adds up to the fact that Supplied in 1/2 lb. jar for $.75 a man spends twice as much on cig- 1 lb.—$1.25; 5 lb. bulk—$5.00 for tobacco. *Minimum Daily Requirements arettes as he spends on his doctor, At dietary food counters or postpaid direct. We spent $1,800,000,000 in hospital three times as much on whisky as on fees, but a greater amount—$2,200,- salubrious drugs, and four times as SCHIFF 1310-FOODS 000,000—was spent simply for toilet much in having fun as he does in the Department H 10 Jersey City 3, N.J. articles and personal care items. health center.

NOVEMBER, 1951 33 Profiles of Our Contributors To get her outdoor exercise, Mrs. Bell plays golf and tennis, and enjoys an (Continued from page 7) occasional dip in an Arizona swimming FEEt-ACHif pool. She moved to Arizona In 1934 for GET FOOT COMFORT WITH her husband's and her son's health, and BURNS& L since then has grown to love horseback riding. The climate in Arizona, she reports, is dry, warm, and sunny, and has Make walking a pleasure! Try -7) done much to improve the health of the these famous feather-lite, Cali- family. Mrs. Bell has to her credit three fornia-made Foot Balancers. They give amazing foot comfort! Worn party books, two juvenile cookbooks and in shoes. Recommended by doc- a gift for the sickroom. Her articles tors and nurses. Sold in shoe have appeared in House Beautiful, Better stores and shoe departments. For Homes and Gardens, and several other men, women, children. Demand ADOIVISIO magazines. BURNS CUBOIDS! AMERICAN MEDICAt ASSOCIATION 7,11:1:is: For Name of Your Dealer W nee Pusucanoas health problem. Although much of her work is done in St. Louis, she spends at °NZ Wee(' BURNS CUBOID CO., SANTA ANA, CALIF. least four months a year traveling around the country gathering the latest news and information in home economics, dietetics, MARVEL JUICER and allied fields, largely at professional meetings. Her travels have taken her into FOR SUGAR— all but four States in this country and RESTRICTED DIETS into five other countries in the Western Hemisphere. NOW IT'S FUN Use Cellu Juice-Pak or Cella Water- A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, she MAKING JUICES! Pack Fruits for diet variety. Food has an A.B. degree from the University of values are printed on labels. Makes juice and discharges pulp Tennessee and an M.A. degree from in one operation. is self-clean- SEND FOR NEW CATALOG ing. Also grinds nuts into Teachers' College, Columbia University, creamy spreads and shreds vege- CHIU PURPOSEFULLY PREPARED New York. She went to St. Louis in 1945. tables for salads and soups. New exclutive revolution. ary feature—Made of cast nylon, tough as steel, which Partly because of her heavy travel reduces to a minimum any contact of food with metal. Pietazy goods schedule, she likes femininely tailored Write today for free descriptive literature. CHICAGO DIETETIC SUPPLY HOUSE inc. clothes—"that kind that 'travel well,' " 1750 West Van Buren Steel Chicago 12, without extra accessories. THE MARVEL JUICER COMPANY 1229 So. Central Ave., Lodi, California Chicago Dietetic Supply House, Inc. She drives a Plymouth coupe and lives 1750-L W. Van Buren St., Chicago 12, Illinois in a cozy apartment overlooking Forest Please send me your new catalog, listing foods Park in St. Louis. Her favorite hobby: for sugar and starch restricted diets. painting still lifes and landscapes. Name Address City State Louise Price Bell ("After a Hearty Meal," page 33) was born and educated in Buffalo, New York. She has been a kindergartner and home service worker in various sections of the United States. • Her main interests are home and family MODERN MEDICAL FACILITIES The Ideal Gift life, and most of her writing stems from for the treatment of these subjects. She has associated with MEDICAL, SURGICAL, OBSTETRICAL, • Washington 12, D.C. children in her work in children's hospi- AND NEUROLOGICAL CASES tals and Girl Scout work in settlement In Healthful Colorado houses of Buffalo. PORTER SANITARIUM AND HOSPITAL Now! Vitamin A Capsules withN 2525 South Downing Denver. Colo. °Fishy*Taste ASK FOR THE NEW Like °Fish$70dor Tasty New °Fishy*Afer Taste L Dishes? %‘Fish$713urps

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