GRAMS oF
PROTEIN
1 slice - - 3
1 slice -
2 tablespoons
I glass  -
3 tablespoons
3 tablespoons
8 to 11
I -
Protose 1 slice - 12
Nuttolene - 1 slice 8
Flesh foods—Chop I 18
Flesh foods—Beef - I slice 21
Flesh foods—Chicken 2 slices - - 18
Keep your proteins down to body requirement at
all times, and especially in the summer. Excess
protein means more heat production, and it also
means useless, unnecessary, and damaging work for
the kidneys and liver. You are also much better
off without flesh foods.
ARTICLE AMOUNT
Bread—White -
Bread—Whole wheat
Cheese—Cottage -
Milk - -
Beans - -
Cereals—Cooked
Nuts - -
Eggs
KEEP THE RADIATOR FULL
IN HOT weather the body is cooled through the
evaporation of water from its surface. A delicately
balanced thermostatic arrangement causes the
sweat glands to pour water onto the skin and also
to dilate the blood vessels in the skin. Thus heat is
abstracted from the blood and we are enabled to
endure the temperature of our surroundings. Also,
as fluids are removed by perspiration, the reaction
of the body tends to become less and less alkaline.
This is decidedly unfavorable, leading to a condition
commonly known as acidosis. Quite obviously, then,
it is essential that the body fluids be replenished.
Iced tea and soda fountain drinks do not meet
the need. That which offers an artificial sense of
relief through stimulation is a poor substitute for
good, cool water and delicious fruit juices. The
juice of fruit, especially the citrus fruit, offers the
added value of alkaline minerals that benefit the
body in many ways. Keep the fluids up. The out-
put from the kidneys should be upwards of two
quarts a day. If you are short of this amount, drink
more of nature’s brew.
Enjoy an abundance of fresh, cool, crisp, vegetable
salads in muggy weather. A raw grated carrot salad
seasoned with a bit of lemon, or plain, and served
on a crisp lettuce leaf whets the appetite at midday.
A fruit salad is equally refreshing; try an apple,
orange, and banana cocktail when the temperature
is 90° and soggy. Another most palatable and nu-
tritous combination is cold cottage cheese served
on a slice of canned pineapple. Be careful of coarse
vegetable and acid fruits at the same meal. If
taken in any quanity they might stir up a sour
stomach for you. Itis not a good combination. From
your fruits and vegetables you will obtain bulk
(necessary to good bowel control), vitamins, mineral
salts, a good selection of sugars and starches all
done up in appetizing packages for hot weather use.
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Keep your food iced in the summer. There is
nothing quite so destructive to appetite as wilted
vegetables, lukewarm, ‘‘blinky” milk, and water
at summer temperature. Germs incubate beautifully
outside an icebox, and it really constitutes a source
of danger, especially to the little folks, to try to use
food not protected by a low temperature. It is
good economy to invest in refrigeration. At least
have a burlap-covered box arranged to allow for
evaporation from a drip-drenched covering. Some-
way, arrange to keep your food cool and clean.
An ever-present dietetic sin is overeating. Always
an evil, it is even more harmful in sedentary weather.
Quantities of sugar in ice cream and sodas are
devoured by us in our frantic effort to keep cool.
Instead, we are stoking with live fuel food and
putting on fat. Furthermore, in this same effort to
refrigerate ourselves we are most likely guilty of
another error in eating between meals. It was not
ordained that food should trickle down our gullets
continuously; our stomachs were planned to receive
food at stated intervals, and their periods of labor
were restricted to the requirements of normal
nutrition. We ordinarily do not need so much food
in the summer because less is usually needed for
labor, and certainly much less is required for heat.
Unless you are underweight, do not allow yourself
to fatten up during the summer; slow down on your
intake.
In eating iced dishes, take time. Sip your iced
drinks. Do not chill the stomach by speed in eating
or drinking. Most of us need to slow up in our rate
of eating in order to enjoy it and to properly pre-
pare it for the stomach. At all times if we would
chew our food more, we would eat less. Iced foods
or drinks should have the chill taken off by a suf-
ficient sojourn in the mouth.
Care in feeding the body is your biggest and most
effective measure in health getting and in health
keeping, summer, spring, or winter. Your summer
will be a better one if you use the right fuel for the
wonderful machine God has placed at our disposal.
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Hero Worship
(Continued from page 19)
are as they are, enough has been preserved, or is
discernable today about us, to cause one to know
that the world’s acclamation of its heroes is often
a false estimate. The records of the greatest of
those heroes, when weighed with the scales of eternal
justice, are often such as would not cause one to wish
for those records opposite his name in the day of
final judgment.
Thus it is about time to rewrite our list of heroes,
for very few of those whom history has deigned to
honor will stand the light of investigation. Let it not
be thought, though, that the world has not had
its true heroes. Every age has produced them;
though unknown, their names are written in heaven.
THE, WATCHMAN MAGAZINE