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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 2

210 LSSUED BY THE NEV ZEALAND DEPARThENT 05 HEALTU No. 2 FOOD FALLACAES Wt QUESTION: My daughter is tryig to reduce her weight: She has cut out all milk and potatoes. Is this wise?" ANSWER : No. Milk and potatoes are too valuable as foods to be eliminated even in 2 slimming diet: If the top milk is removed, the rest of the milk is valuable but not fattening: If the quantity of bread iS cut down and all biscuits; cake, scones and sweets are rigidly excluded, far better results are achieved than by avoiding potatoes which are much superior in value to any of these. SLIMMING CAN BE CARRIED OUT Without UNWISE EXCLUSION OF VALUABLE FOODS Q UEStio N QUEstion #Is it true that one should not drink "Is molasses rtally velvable bacause with meals because the liquid dilutes the children hate it 30 and it is 50 hard the gastric juice and delays digestion?" to persepere with it?" ANSW ER NSWER In the normal healthy Molasses has no very special person property to recommend it _ Water itself is a gentle stim- pothing that could not be ulus to secretion of gastric obtained from more common- juice place foods. Dry meals may be less in- It certainly has laxative clined to call forth 2 generous action which might be advant- fow of gastric juice ageous to some, but that Any possible dilution of about all: gastric juice is very slight Any other minerals preseat S 0 can be obtained from other and more usual foods. DRINK With YOUR MEALS IF YoU WISH To DO So FoR NORMAL PERSONS; Water is the best drink with the ABNORMAL Foods ARE dinner meal: The digestive juices Not NECESSARY can take care of themselves. They generally cost more money too, 13.1