Proportioned Bills Of Fare - Continued From Page 64 Raw Diet Modified

1. Fruit Juice

Strawberries. Oranges.

Fruit Salad. Hoe Cakes. Zweiback.

Butter or Nut Butter.

Eggs Natural or Poached.

Rice, Tapioca or Sago Pudding.

2. Fruit Juice

Peaches, Pears or Grapes.

Vegetable Salad.

Eggs Natural or Poached.

Unfermented Whole Wheat

Bread. Zweiback.

Butter, or Nut Butter.

Rice Pudding.

3. Soup - Vegetable Or Nut

Fruit in Season, or

Raisins, Prunes, or Dates.

Vegetable Salad.

Nuts or Eggs.

Whole Wheat Bread, Butter.

Rice Pudding with Fruit Jelly.

4. Tomato Soup

(thickened with Oatmeal)

Vegetable or Fruit Salad.

Baked Apples. Stewed Prunes.

Nuts or Eggs.

Bread and Butter. Zweiback.

Fruit Jelly.

7. Raw Egg

OneBrazil Nuts, one or two ounces.

Tomato Raw, one.

Zweiback or Whole Wheat

Bread. 4 ozs., with Butter.

Fruit in Season, or dried.

Figs, Dates, Raisins, or Prunes,

2 ozs.

8. Spinach, Asparagus

Lettuce, or Celery.

Boiled Potato.

Nuts or Eggs.

Fruits in Season.

Bread and Butter, a bit of Cheese

Simplicity should be the underlying principle of a dietary. Variety is absolutely essential in order that our food may be appetizing. Without variety even a perfect food or combination of foods soon becomes distasteful through its monotony. Variety is the spice of appetite, and is to be obtained by distributing it through the two or three daily meals of each day or series of days, rather than by always having a great variety at any one time.

Sugar Dietetics

" A surfeit of the sweeter things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings."

THE candy habit and the general use of sweets, which is so prevalent in America, is unquestionably responsible in a very large measure, for the universal dyspepsia and indigestion which exists on this continent.

The most common form of indigestion, in this country is that known as farinaceous indigestion, or the indigestion of starch. In this disease the stomach and intestines fail to promptly convert the starch - taken chiefly in the form of white bread, fresh biscuits, cakes, porridge, mushes, soups, sweet pastries, etc. - into levulose, or fruit sugar - the final product of starch digestion. The delay or failure of starch digestion results in fermentation and the formation of acetic acid, lactic acid, and various other substances which irritate the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines, producing gastric catarrh, intestinal catarrh, catarrh of the liver, jaundice, gallstones, and finally that increasingly common malady so dreaded because so seldom curable, diabetes, which generally terminates at an early day in death from tuberculosis or Bright's disease.

The Sweet Tooth

The love for sweets seems to be universal among civilized people, but in no country in the world is sugar eaten in such prodigious quantities as in the United States. "Bon-Bons," taffy, sweet desserts, preserves, sweet pickles, sweet cakes, and sweets of a dozen other descriptions now figure very largely in the daily bill of fare. In fact with some individuals it is nothing but sweets, sweets, all the time - both at and between meals. The usual accompaniments of porridge, oatmeal, cracked wheat or any other of the breakfast foods are milk, cream or butter, and nearly always with a liberal allowance of sugar. Altogether this makes a difficult mass for the stomach to dispose of, and the condition of the food in the stomach is an ideal one for producing flatulence and heart burn - a genuine old-fashioned sour stomach. A little bit of chemistry may be interesting in this connection. The ideal conditions for producing vinegar or acetic acid are starch or sugar, a proper quantity of fluid, a ferment, and the right temperature. These are precisely the conditions under which sugar or starch ordinarly is taken into the human stomach, with the result of fermentations and eructations of gas, distention of the stomach, bilious attacks of vomiting and regurgitations of sour liquids. A great many individuals, as a result of taking at their usual breakfast an excess of sugar or starchy food, start out every morning with a stomach containing a miniature vinegar making equipment. There's just one thing for the stomach to do - make vinegar - and it does it. Under these conditions physicians everywhere are recognizing the pernicious effects of this great consumption of sweets, and the evils arising from it, but all the efforts of doctors and diet reformers have thus far been unavailing to lessen the evil.

"Sugar Appetite"

Ihe increased consumption of Sugar is probably a result of the development of the sugar appetite, which like any other appetite, for instance, the liquor appetite, grows by gratification. Candies are now put up in so many appetizing ways that they are almost irresistible. Once the "Sugar Appetite" gets control of an individual, it is no easy thing to break up the habit. The appetite for sugar is a natural one, and it may be said also that the evils arising from the use of sugar are not due to its sweetness, but rather to its excessive use, in a concentrated form, and its interference with physiological processes. The fact that the starch of cereals is, in the process of digestion, converted into sugar, has led many persons to suppose that by the eating of cane-sugar they afford an advantage to the digestive organs, by lightening their labour. This is, however, entirely a mistake, the facts being the very opposite. Cane sugar, like starch, must be digested before it can be converted into levulose, the sugar resulting from the digestion of starch in the stomach and intestines.