FOOD RESTRICTIONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 167, 17 July 1942, Page 3

FOOD RESTRICTIONS

BLESSINGS IN DISGUISE

Food restrictions are really a blessing in disguise, according to a professor, who, writing in a magazine, says it gives the housewife an opportunity to explore foods which were hitherto despised by her, and that she can dispense with articles of food which she had considered essential to the welfare of her household.

In cutting down some foods more sparingly than in the past she might find that those for whom she catered benefited rather than suffered fromthe change. The housewife is advised to make' the best she can of the vegetables 1 and fruit at her disposal, as these are a valuable source of salts andvitamins. Milk is another valuable food. Farmers know that crops need calcium, but they are apt to forget that they themselves, and their children, need this element. Milk is the most important calcium-containing food we possess. Cheese also is a valuable food, with high nutritive value and a most important food in wartime, and one which should be a part of every household's supplies. Sugar is a highly purified article i of food, over-indulgence in which is J injurious to health. Sugar plays a useful part in the dietaries in childhood, but in most civilised communities, too much, not too little, is included in our daily food. It should be remembered that large groups of L Toods classified as carbohydrates, which we eat, are converted in our bodies into sugar.