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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1953-02-26, Page 6TABLtE TALKS Jam Nutrition is indeed a oompli- sated science, but happily for those of us who plan and cook Meals or who merely eat them, its practical application is rela- tively simple, The questions and answers appearing here today ore intended to show this. e o o Much of the material is based awn an excellent new booklet. It le called "A Balanced Diet," and it is written by Lucille J. Bow- ler, Martha F. Trulson and Dr. 1P'redrick J. Stare of the departs. anent of untrition of the Harvard School of Public health. o a e What is a good balanced diet? It is one that supplies all of the food essentials needed for good health in the right amounts and right relationships to each other. e s a What are these essentials? They are (1) carbohydrates ((sugars and starches), which supply energy cheaply; (2) fats, which also furnish energy; (3) protein, which builds, repairs and maintains body tissues; (4) Vitamins and minerals, which carry out the chemical reactions of the body's operation. There must be enough ester - ay supplied by carbohydrates end fats to permit the protein to do its work. Otherwise, if There is insufficient energy from these sources, the protein will have to supply it, and thus be kept from performing its body- building function, 5 0 0 in terms of everyday eating how does one meet these require- ments? It depends on the food sup- plies and food customs of a coun- try. In China, one knight consume bird's nest soup, soy bean curd, kumquats and a variety of what seems to us exotic products, and be well nourished. In this country, one chooses to eat daily from the seven groups of available foods which, generally speaking, con- sist of (1) milk and milk pro- ducts, (2) meats, eggs, poultry, fish and dried beans, (3) whole grain and enriched breads and cereals, (.4) citrus fruits, green peppers, tomatoes and other foods containing vitamin C, green and yellow vegetables, (6) other vegetables and fruits, (7) but- ter or fortified margarine. Is a balanced diet expensive? Not necessarily. The cheaper ruts of meat are as protein -rich as the steaks and chops, dried Milk as calcium -rich as fresh fluid milk, canned orange juice as vitamin C -rich as fresh oran- ges, fortified margarine as vita - lain A -rich as butter. One studies the basic groups and selects with- in them what suits the purse end palate. A wide latitude is permitted. flow might these food groups be fitted into family meats for a clay? "A Balanced Diet" offers an entire week's menus to answer this question. For Thursday, for *amnia, it suggests: Breakfast — pineapple juice, hot cereal Slam Alluring Hart --Alluring is not her middle name but Ann Hart, our Valentine beouty, doesn't 'need it. She was elect - td St. Valentine's Day Queen, and is seen, above, trying on ker taearl-decorated crown for size. with. milk, toasted English muf- fins with butter and jelly, a bev- erage. .Lunch -- omelet with creole sauce, buttered. . Swiss chard, popovers with butter, half grapefruit with mint ice, milk, Dinner — pot roast of beef, carrots and onions, oven - browned potatoes, green pepper cheese salad, butter -flake rolls with butter, pecan cup cake, cof- fee. 5 5 5 I1ow do the food needs of chil- dren differ from adults? Their needs of certain nutri- ents are relatively greater than those of grown-ups during per- iods of fast growth, which are roughly from birth to 5 years and from 10 to 19 years. Early child- hood and adolescence, in other words. The guidance of a pedia- trician is helpful in the former period, and during the latter "seconds" can provide the ex- tra calories often demanded. The vitamin C requirement also is higher among adolescents. Citrus fruits, raw cabbage, tomatoes and green peppers are all high in this nutrient. p r! Do the elderly people in the family need special foods? No. They require less calo- ries because of reduced activi- ty and the cooking may have to be adapted a little to suit poor- er teeth, 5 e How does cookingt affect fire nutrients of food? heat and air destroy certain vitamins; other vitamins and minerals are soluble in water. Cook, if possible, in a covered pan in as small amount of wa- ter as possible and for as short a time as possible. Such a meth- od reduces losses. 5 5 * What are some of the common errors of commision or omission that put a diet out of balance? "A Balanced Diet" lists seven. They are (1) skimping or omit- ting breakfast, (2) too many calories, (3) poor variety, (4) lack of milk or milk products. (5) lack of vegetables and fruits, Something to Cackle About "Esmerelda;" who helps students at Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., learn about liv- ing creatures by observation, has. two good reasons 'to be proud of her 12th birthday.The White Lege horn hen has reached an age comparable to 100 Years of human life, and still produces eggs like a two-year-old, with a 50 per cent laying record for the month preceding her birthday. Student Ethan Golden lights the candles for his feathered teacher, (6) spending too large a portion of the budget on one or a few food groups so that other items are scanty, (7) improper prep- aration. o 5 o What is a skimpy breakfast? One that fails to provide from fourth to a third of the day's needs. Fruit, cereal with milk, bread with butter and a bever- age is a good cheap adequate breakfast. Eggs are an attractive addition. 4 ! e Is there any one food snore important than another in bal- ancing a diet? No. Variety is the thing to aim at, and at every meal. Variety, in fact, is the keynote in select- ing a balanced diet, offering the best practical means of achiev- ing it. Variety is also impor- tant in giving appetite appeal. Most of our diets generally tend to be low in calcium, which is why particular attention might be paid to the milk and milk -prod- ucts group. LET'S NOT FOOL OURSELVES Our hopes and desires for world peace will not be advanced by harboring ill-conceived notions about the living standards and cap- abilities of the citizens of countries behind the Iron Curtain. Far too many of us think of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics as a comic strip Lower Slobbovia, inhabited by ragged, ignorant peasants, battling for existence in a perpetual snow -storm. Actually, Moscow is no closer to the North Pole than is GIasgow or Edmonton, and Stalingrad is on almost the same parallel of latitude as Paris and Vancouver. According to Mr. Cyril Ray, who spent eighteen months in Moscow for the Sunday Times of London, as reported in the Letter Review, Soviet living standards are rising slowly but perceptibly. Already they are higher than those in northern Greece, southern Italy and some other parts of the Free World. "Russians feel grate- ful", says Mr. Ray, "to a regime which has provided them with luxuries their fathers and mothers never knew—refrigerators, wash- ing machines, motor cycles, nylon stockings, radio sets, etc. For the first time in history every Russian woman can afford perfume and cosmetics." According to this report, Mr. Ray found meat, cheese, butter and bacon as plentiful in working class stores and restaurants as in those patronized by officials and foreigners. Mr. Frank Rounds, U.S, ex- pert on Russia, who had recently returned from the American Em- bassy in Moscow, reports in UN News, November 18, that the Russians are making "tremendous" economic progress and that every year living standards vastly improve. One aspect of the industrial development of the Soviet union is to be found in the 1952-53 edition of Janes' All The World's Air- craft, published on December 4th. This authoritative annual avia- tion record comments that "during 1951 the Soviet aircraft industry is reputed to have produced 22,000 aircraft, one half of then fighters, and 63,000 aircraft engines." The same publication reports that U.S. military aircraft production attained 900 a month at the end of the year, indicating an annual rate below 11,000. The Russian aircraft industry now consists of 360 state factories. The tendency to underestimate the efforts of the Communists and to overestimate our own, breeds complacency. Far from being a morale booster, such self-deception boomerangs with serious effects when the true facts come to light, In a condensation appearing in the December issue of Reader's Digest, Robert C. Miller, a United Press roving correspondent, reports that General Van Fleet, at a conference of his corps commanders, stated that if he had believed their casualty claims "there would not be a live Chinese or North Korean opposing us." As Miller points out, the Free World is lighting desperate, costly battle against Communism and the most devastating weapon on the side of freedom is truth. "With it we can build the strength of the democracies and undermine that of our enemies." We fall into serious error if we rely upon argument based on a materialistic philosophy to combat materialistic Communism. The fact that progress is being made in the matteer of living standards in Russia is not an argument in favour of Communism. The issue is still between freedom and slavery. In the final analysis, economic progress is due to hard work and appreciation of economic facts. There are two ways by which men ran be made to work. One is to reduce them to the level of slavery and drive them to work; the other is to provide them with incentives, based on enlightened self-interest and an appreciation of their responsibilities as free men. history has proven that, in the long run, the free man can build for himself and for his neighbors, a better world in which to Jive than can men forced to work under the lash. The free man, secure in this know- ledge, does not want the truth disguised. In fact, his faith requires undiluted truth. If we recognize clearly that progress is the result of d.etermin- ation and hard work then we need have no fear that slaves will ever he able to out -perform men who are free. A true appreciation of the full facts will serve only to arouse the illimitable might generated by the competitive spirit of free men. --From "The News Letter" issuer] by The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, SALLY'S SAUDIS "There's a salesman for you What a master backslapperit' Good Queen Victoria Threw Nothing Away Queen Victoria was one of those people—and there are hundreds of thousands like her today — who revel in the past and all that reminds them of it. She could never bear to dis- card anything even when it had become old and useless; and after her husband died she could rarely appreciate any ex- perience without remarking how much "good, dear Albert would have enjoyed it, too." To the headpiece of every bed in which she slept in the royal palaces was fixed a photograph of Albert laid out after death. She also had the images of her friends, relatives and pets mount- ed in countless albums, and after dinner would explain each pic- ture in detail to her guests, while they expressed their appreciation of her seemingly never-ending collection. Later, in the "John Brown" period, the curtains, chair -covers and walls were all tartan -pat- terned, and every inch of wall space was plastered with photo- graphs. These were never taken down or replaced without her consent — and she would rather have died than have given it. Thousands from all over the world sent Queen Victoria presents. Before she died she had enough articles of clothing to stock a museum.. Each had a photograph and a number, and they were entered in two mas- sive, leatherbound catalogues which stood on a table near her favourite chair. It was her cus- tom to open them, gloat over her possessions, and add to the catalogue as more gifts arrived, Thousands of articles which might have served a useful pur- pose were locked away in bu- reaux. Photographs were takers to commemorate every event in her life and every place she visited, Queen Victoria detested change. She always did the same things at the same time and the slightest deviation from habit , made her furious. If a carpet was worn through, for example, it could not be changed without her consent, and then only if replaced by another, identical in size, colour, pattern, and weave. It seems odd that England's ruler, at a period when change was the order of the day, should have kept her own sur- roundings so static. Earthquakes Prove Earth's Core Liquid. What is it like at the center of the earth? Profs. W. Maurice Ewing and Frank Press of. Col- umbia University's Department of Geology presented evidence last month that the core of the earth is liquid. The evidence was supplied by a new seismograph which is in- stalled at Columbia's ' Lamont Geological Observatory at Pali- sacles,N X., and which is techni- cally called an "ultra -long period vertical seismograph." The in- strument records hitherto unde- tected earthquake surface waves. So sensitive is this new seismo- graph that it responds to earth- quake surface waves even after they have circled the earth eight times — a record which was es- tablished on Nov. 4 when a severe earthquake rocked Kam- chatka, the Russian -inhabited peninsula northeast of Japan. "The earthquake proved to be just what we were after," says Professor Ewing. "It was as powerful as the one that dest- royed San Francisco in 1906 and set a so-called 'tidal wave' in mo- tion that later reached Hawaii." The seismograph recorded the shock waves of this remote earthquake as they circled the earth in both directions. Fifteen trains of waves were detected in all. "This last group of waves had gone completely around the globe no fewer than eight times, having travelled altogether about 162,00 miles." comments Profes- sor Ewing. In his opinion "it felt the earth's core" Professors Ewing and Press came to design their ultra -long poled vertical seismograph es result Of their interests in . shock waves which are IrnowlL as "Rayleigh waves" and which can indicate the degree of vali- dity of the earth's core, Ray- leigh's waves studied before this particular seismograph was in- stalled were no more than 100 miles in length, thererfore un- affected by the crust et the earth, which is somewhere around twenty-five miles thick, "The great interest Of the lon- ger waves is that their velocity ceases to increase with wave length, contrary tD the trend In shorter waves," explains profes- sor Ewing. 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