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WHY VU runt, MAMMY? Your Blood MOUNTAIN THERAPY THE NATIONAL HEALTH JOURNAL JUNE 1953 ANY TIME-ANYWHERE With Choplets on hand, you are ready for "good eating" any time. Choplets are high favorites when your youngsters bring "the gang" in for a snack . .. when you invite friends over for a picnic supper . or when you serve family and guests a full-course dinner! Choplets are tender, juicy slices of protein-rich, meatlike nourishment—packed in wholesome broth that makes wonderful gravy. Worthington Foods, Inc. Worthington, Ohio CROPLETS IN SWISS GRAVY INGREDIENTS—PART B INGREDIENTS—PART A 1 medium onion I sliced ) I can CHOPLETS, 14 oz. I/4 cup celery ldicedl , cup green sweet pepper (diced 4 2 cups tomato juice I/3 tbs. cooking oil or shortening 2 tbs. flour 1 tsp. sugar Breading meal Salt and seasonings as desired Saute ingredients listed under Part B. Add flour and blend. Add tomato juice and simmer slowly until vege- tables are cooked. While sauce is simmering, dip Chop- lets in breading meal and fry until golden brown. Place Choplets in baking pan or dish, cover with sauce, and moderate oven for 10 minutes. Serves 4 or 5. More onion or other vegetables may be used "5 NOTEn: if desired. Choplets is the Registered Trade-21lark of Worthington Foods. Inc. t---EWPILP) HEALTH Vonteittsi LETTERS TO THE EDITOR June, 1953 Vol. 68, No. 6 J. DeWITT FOX, M.D., L.M.C.C., Editor "LIFE & HEALTH" ON RADIO D. A. DELAFIELD, Assistant Editor MARY CASTOR, Assistant to the Editor C. E. WENIGER, Ph.D., Editorial Consultant T. K. MARTIN, Art Editor DEAR EDITOR: The Rural Radio Network is a network Consulting Editors: ROBERT A. HARE, M.D., F.A.C.P.; WALTER E. MACPHERSON, M.D., F.A.C.P. of 13 FM stations covering New York HAROLD M. WALTON, M.D., F.A.C.P.; THEODORE R. FLAIZ, M.D.; J. WAYNE MCFARLAND, M.D. State, northern Pennsylvania, and parts of Canada, Massachusetts, and Vermont. Contributing Editors: D. Lois BuaNwrr, R.N. • M. WEBSTER PRINCE, D.D.S., F.A.C.D. As a regular feature of our 11:30 ARLIE L. MOON, M.D. • JOHN F. BROWNSBERGER, M.D., F.A.C.S. • CARL. J. LARSEN, M.D. A.M. Country Home program, I've been LEROY E. COOLIDGE, M.D., F.A.C.S. HORACE A. HALL, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S. broadcasting a series on Your Family ROGER W. BARNES, M.D., F.A.C.S. • BELLE WOOD COMSTOCK, M.D. • DANIEL H. KRESS, M.D. Health. It includes interviews with doc- CYRIL B. COURVILLE, M.D. LUCILLE J. GOTHAM, B.A. • GEORGE T. HARDING, M.D., F.A.C.P. tors on everything from the common cold E. HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. • HENRY W. VOLLMER, M.D., F.A.C.S. • H. L. RITTENHOUSE, M.D. to polio, and news items on anything af- Braille Edition, Life & Health: C. W. DEGERING, MANAGING EDITOR fecting life and health. So you see, I am most grateful for your magazine, for the information—and inspiration—it gives to a reader, and a woman broadcaster. BARBARA HALL, Women's Editor FEATURE ARTICLES Page Rural Radio Network Ithaca, New York Why Do People Marry? HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D. 8 ANOTHER GOOD DOCTOR? Be Sure It's Pasteurized ALMA KLINE ECKARD 10 DEAR EDITOR: Your Blood Chemistry HELEN SPICER MENKEL, R.N. 12 I refer to Alvin K. Miller's letter in the November [1952] issue of LIFE & HEALTH Pineapple—Queen of Fruits LUCILLE J. GOTHAM 14 and your comments. You suggest he get himself a good fam- The World Against Cancer, Part 2 PAUL D. FOSTER, M.D. 16 ily doctor. I wrote you about this same (Turn to page 4) Mountain Therapy JAN S. DOWARD 18 THE JUNE COVER FOR MOTHERS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Fruit—the Food of Angels 6 Wings of Health 24 Family Physician 20 Mother's Counselor 22 MENTAL HYGIENE Dietitian Says 26 Mountain Therapy 18 Homemaker Hints 28 Stop Worrying! 31 Stop Worrying! ______ 31 Philosophy of Life 15 R..1. CHRISTIAN, Circulation Manager J. R. HANNA, Advertising Manager J. M. 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Acceptance for mail- at least 30 days prior to the date of the issue ing at special rate of postage provided for in with which it is to take effect. Send old men, women, and children a love for animals. Section 538, Act of October 2, 1917, and address with the new, enclosing if possible And well that it is so, for animals, especially the authorized June 24, 1904. Member of A.B.C. your address label. dog and the horse, are among man's most faithful friends. Let us be kind always to our loyal animal friends. JUNE, 1953 3 LIKE A PRAYER Readers' Pulse ANSWERED ... I CAN (Continued from page 3) article. In my home town of about ten thousand inhabitants I'd hesitate to pick any one of the doctors there as one you'd NEAR AGAIN suggest Mr. Miller get. I did have one, but he was of the "old school," lived his What a blessing life span, and has been dead these many to hear again years. The ones now are all present-day with a clarity medics. YOUR NAM and ease I never ADDRESS dreamed possi- I have known lads who held to such ble. No longer excellent standards that when they elected do I miss out medicine as their lifework I felt that on the precious surely they would be good doctors. But CANCER sounds I something went wrong somewhere, for POSTMASTER thought were they are, as Mr. Miller says, present-day YOUR TOWN lost forever. doctors. I might blame the medical schools Church ser- mons, the voic- but for an incident that happened in a es of loved ones, health discussion group. The dean of a music — all the medical school was the target of criticisms KATE SMITH sounds that make up life—are brought aimed at the medical profession. He de- says— back with startling clarity. nied none of the accusations and sadly FREE BOOKLET I Why risk losing replied, "We teach them right but they so much of life's pleasures and oppor- "The American Cancer Society is have heads of their own. 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LIFE AND HEALTH you on a low-sodium However, we suggest that you call or salt-free diet? Fresh your doctor on your birthday for a are: lemons, themselves physical examination (see editorial salt-free, can make all page in the January, 1953, LIFE & the difference be- HEALTH). Birthdays somehow tell us that we are growing older, and serve tween flat, insipid as a natural reminder.—ED.