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NATIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL H. M. LAMBERT DECEMBER * Diseases of the Scalp * How to Treat Bronchitis 1943 * Dangers of Dental Infections * Is Meat Necessary in the Diet? It's Your Patriotic Duty 59th YEAR OF to Keep Healthy PUBLICATION * Beware Medical Miracle Men * How to Build Resistance Mary got a germ and led her class ! 43he protective wheat germ in hot Ralston cereal Just a bowlful No Diet Complete Of nourishing hot Ralston each day Without Whole Grain May mean the difference Delicious Hot Ralston is Whole Between the child who leads the class Grain Plus Extra Amounts of And one who lags behind Protective Wheat Germ Because this natural whole wheat cereal Has an extra amount Of the natural protective wheat germ The rich golden heart of wheat 2 KINDS OF HOT RALSTON That releases new energy, Strengthens nerves, promotes growth 'FEEDS NO COCA'S IN Aids appetite and digestion COOATA/0 5M/MUTES Serve this grand build-up breakfast Have You Tried Fried Ralston? To your family regularly It's delicious! Easy to fix, thrifty. You just heat 4 cups water to boiling, add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 cup Ralston Whole Wheat Cereal so slowly Ask for hot Ralston . a Basic-7 food water doesn't stop boiling. Boil 5 min. stirring frequently. Pour at once into wet loaf pan. Chill until firm. Cut into slices, roll in uncooked Ralston Thrifty and not rationed. and fry in hot fat until brown. Plenty for 6 people. Articles Page Diseases of the Scalp __________ 6 ENRICHED WHITE BREAD Henry H. Hazen, M. D. Poem, Self-Persecution 7 means Harriet Rukenbrod Dangers of Dental Infections 8 ENRICHED LIVES Walter C. Dorn, D. D. S. Training the One-Year-Old 10 Bertha L. Selmon, M. D. How to Build Resistance to Disease 11 Edyth T. James, R. N., M. S. Is Meat Necessary in the Diet? 12 Nellie DeFord, Dietitian Beware of Medical "Miracle Men" _ 13 Commander James J. Short, M. D. Bronchitis 14 C. M. Dower, M. D. What to Expect of a Gargle _______ 15 M. C. Schroeder, M. D. The Food Value of Apples 17 SEND Elizabeth Neufeld, Dietitian FOR THIS Nutritionally Balanced Meals for BOOKLET December 1 8 Myrtle V. Barker, Dietitian Departments News in Small Doses 5 Read what leading The Dietitian Says _____________ _ ___ 16 nutrition experts and The Housewife's Corner 20 medical authorities say The Family Physician 22 The Mother's Counselor 24 about America's new, im- For Boys and Girls 26 portant food development. Your Mental Attitude 27 Mother as a Nurse 29 Gardening for Health 31 COMING NEXT MONTH OU'VE probably heard about enriched white bread. You A REPORT on certain scientific findings Yprobably have it on your table three meals a day. If you that may point the way to freedom from don't you should I But now there has been made available dental decay, America's No. 1 disease. for you a complete explanation of the value of this new food . Those mysterious glands of internal . its importance in the national diet, the vital role it can secretion, a description of them and their play . and should play . in building the defense and work. The nutritive values of cereals morale of our country . a role important in our national in a meatless diet, an article of interest defense and your own future well-being. The 16-page book- to every housewife today. A mother let entitled "Enriched Bread" also contains dozens of quota- interviews her doctor about whooping tions of leading authorities on the subject of nutrition, compiled cough, written in interesting question- and edited for you by the American Institute of Baking. It is and-answer style. The two-year-old, a booklet that every parent, every teacher, every dietitian how environment and parental training should have and read from cover to cover. affect the future life of the little tot, whether he shall live a normal, useful life, or one of dependency. Many articles _dmerican Institute of Baking are written about the person of forty, DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION who is just begipning to live, but our next issue will contain an article for the per- 10 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA NEW YORK 20, N. Y. son of seventy. How to enjoy being three- score and ten. Something new for the lunch box, an article every mother will appreciate. America's first vaccina- tion, an exciting chapter in colonial his- SEND NO MONEY! THIS IS FREE! tory, how a daring doctor met a smallpox American Institute of Baking Name epidemic. 10 Rockefeller Plaza Vol. 58, No. 12, December, 1943. Issued monthly. New York 20, N. Y. Printed and published by Review and Herald Publish- Address ing Association, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D. C., Please send me at no cost your U. S. A. Subscription rate, $1.50. Canada and booklet entitled "Enriched Bread foreign higher. When change of address is desired, —What Leading Authorities Say Slat(' both old and new addresses must be given. Entered City as second-class matter June 14, 1904, at the post office About It." at Washington, D. C., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. DECEMBER, 1943 In replying to advertisements, please mention LIFE AND HEALTH Page 3 OF LIFE & HEALTH Po WHAT shall we do about oily scalp, or dry scalp, superfluous hair, dandruff? Should we have permanents, how often should we sham- poo the hair? These and other questions you will find answered in the article "Dis- -1EALTA-1 eases of the Scalp." Page 6. ► SOME say we are only as old as our arteries, or only as old as we feel, but the dentist asks how old we are dentally. See "Dan- gers of Dental Infections," page 8. • The Gallup Poll and the Nation's Eating Habits 10 Now Baby is one year old, he is learning to walk and to talk. How shall we feed baby? how shall we clothe him? how shall we train T is easily possible that some of our readers did not see the report on the recent him? Page 10. Gallup Poll that dealt with the question of the number of vegetarians in the 0. THE average citizen spends one week of I country. We wish to summarize, therefore, some of the facts revealed. There each year ill. Why is this, and how can he has always been great uncertainty as to the number of persons who follow the vege- build resistance to disease that will keep him tarian diet. Varying estimates have been made. Our best guess has been that on the job and up to par? Page 11. there were probably about two million. Now comes the Gallup Poll to inform us ► WE hear so much about ration points that the number estimated from the percentages in the poll taken, would give a and how people can stretch their meat ra- tions. But is meat really necessary? It's good total of 2,800,000 vegetarians. But this is exdusive of the armed forces. If the to know that there are many excellent sources percentage held there the grand total of Americans who are vegetarians would be of protein other than meat. Page 12. approximately 3,000,000. This is confessedly not a staggering number, but it is 0. WE thrill about miracles; maybe that's large enough to be significant. By any method of computation, other than that why so many seek medical "miracle men." employed in computing such totals as national debts, 3,000,000 is an impressive But does Doctor Kuerall really cure? A number. warning is given in the article "Beware of Medical Miracle Men." Page 13. The form of the question asked was as follows: "Some people in the United ► BRONCHITIS is a problem that many par- States are vegetarians, that is, people who eat no fish, fowl, or meat of any kind. ents have to meet, and also many adults. Do you happen to be a vegetarian?"—Washington (D. C.) Post, Oct. 2, 1943. Quite Practical counsel is given on how to treat it.. Page 14. evidently then, the findings disclose the genuine variety of vegetarians. For some reason not altogether clear, many persons have the idea that when a vegetarian says b. SHALL we gargle or shall we not? Is a gar- gle of any value? The doctor tells us what he does not eat meat, he does not therefore mean he abstains from fish or fowl. to expect of a gargle. Page 15. But this is not so. A vegetarian, however, generally includes in his diet certain O. NOTHING like a good, crispy, crunchy, juicy products of the animal kingdom, such as milk and eggs, and it is in the light of apple. Besides the pure delight of eating this fact that he should be technically known as a lacto-ovo-vegetarian, that is, a the apple, it is adaptable to many a dish milk-egg-vegetarian. But this cumbersome technical title is rarely used, the simple and gives us vitamins and minerals. Page 17. word "vegetarian" sufficing to describe the individual who follows this dietary. IP. A WHOLE month of nutritionally balanced menus. Recipes too, for some of the dishes. The Gallup Poll reveals that the following reasons were offered by vegetarians Page 18. for their nonflesh regimen: "Reasons having to do with health, with religious or 10' BEANS enter into many wartime menus. humanitarian considerations, or with taste preferences in food." Some good ways to prepare beans for the table will be found on page 20.