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EAGLE MAGAZINE OF FEATURES Some Quaint Notions A Why the Discovery of Vitamins and ISle Knowledge of Nutrition 'Brings a ISew Conception of Health bout let By Dr. William Brady THERE ARE TIMES when a fellow sighs for the good old days of leg shows I mean Congress boots with elastic in the sides and he-man razors that kept an edge through score of shaves and unadulterated 'buckwheat pancakes yeast-lightened and your choice of suspenders or necktie free with every suit. But I get awfully tired of telling people it doesn't make any difference whether the meat is white or dark. Still I wouldn't mind that so much if it were not for the endless stream of inquiries about foods that cause acidosis. It is of little avail to tell 'em there are no foods that cause acidosis, for they come right back to ask what foods prevent acidosis then.

That nettles me, and I have to take a minute out and roll a half dozen somersaults to keep any blood pressure down. Then I brush aide the whole danged argument and inform the wiseacres there is no such state a acidosis, except as a consequence of certain grave illnesses. Then there are the folk who have been biting on the food specialists' bait I believe their number is decreasing as enlightenment slowly permeate the popular mind and who seek assurance that the protein lri their bread or beans will not react disastrously with the starch thereof to produce some horrible poison in the stomach. It seems the food faddists have discovered that the Creator was a little careless when He ordained that these incompatible food materials should grow combined so intimately in the staff of life. and prolonging life.

It is no longer enough that an individual should be able to carry on without crutch, tonic, sedative, doctor, brace, stimulant, regulator or treatment. He should feel "fit as a fiddle." have a superabundance of vitality or "pep," the resiliency of youthful vigor, in short, the happiness which is health plus. Not make-believe vivacity, but genuine joie de vivre. An optimal ration of vitamins appears to be the key to this better-than-average health. To that end, no matter what your present state of health may be, it can do you no harm and may do you a world of good to see to it that your daily diet includes rather more than the amounts of the different vitamins which are essential to prevent definite deficiency diseases.

For the intelligent layman who wishes to learn more about vitamins and nutrition there are a few books which I can recommend: "The Foundations of Nutrition," by Prof. Mary Swartz Rose, revised edition. 1933, MacMillan Company, New York. "Food, Nutrition and Health," by Mc-Collum and Simmonds, published by the authors. Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene, Baltimore.

"Chemistry of Food and by Henry C. Sherman, Ph Sc.D.. MacMillan, New York, fourth edition. 1933. Or if you don't care to delve so deeply yet feel somewhat curious, I have a wee booklet in the Ways of Health series entitled Building Vitality." For a copy send ten cents in coin and a stamped envelope bearing your address.

I have already told you how an iodine ration retards senility five years or so, and how the daily somersault habit prolongs resiliency and youth another five years. Now add an optional vitiman ration and you're 15 years to the good. Here I had better stop, because I don't believe in babying anybody. among the dilettains? Have I urged the alleged superiority of the numerous highly touted remedies introduced in recent years to take the place of mercury in the treatment of syphilis? Do I help the brass specialists of America sell you laymen blood chemistry and basal metabolism tests? Neigh, friends, in this column if I think a thing is right I get behind it and push it along; if I think it is wrong I hammer it for all I am worth and I don't care who happens to be behind i. rTK)0 MANY individuals still regard as health a condition which enables one to get along without "doctoring." Others think of health as a state of comparative freedom from or alleviation of the symptoms of minor ailments to which they have long been subject.

Even amongst the minority who are well how rare to find one whose health is perfect or who can get better than 90 percent rating on a health test. When you inquire politely about health your well friend usually replies "fair" or "pretty good for me" or "I'm not complaining." Should he claim to enjoy better than average health, you set him down at once as a crank on the subject, unless your own education is better than average too I believe the discovery of vitamins and the growth of our knowledge of nutrition as a result of the discovery, has contributed much toward a new conception of health, in both the medical and the lay mind. Perhaps this paragraph from Sherman's Chemistry of Food and Nutrition" iMac-Millam, 4th edition, 1933. P. 400, relating to vitamin G.

will illustrate what I mean: "A nutritional condition as manifested in a reduction of death-rates, better growth and develop ment, an extension of the prime of life in both directions, and a material improvement of the life expectation of the adult, with a higher average level of positive health throughout the life cycle has been shown to result from an increase in the proportion of milk in an already adequate diet. In chemical terms, the diet was here enriched in several factors; calcium and vitamins A and to a notable extent; and to a lesser extent some of the nutritionally essential amino acids. (Even the increased proportion of luctose may conceivably have played a part in influencing favorably intestinal hygiene. i The continuation of the investigation to determine, if passible, to what extent each of these Chemical factors participated fn the improvement, is still in progress; but results already obtained seem to indicate that calcium and vitamin are among the chief factors which thus functioned in bettering an already normal condition of nutrition." (F COURSE we can't think of calcium (lime) in metabolism or nutrition without thinking of Vitamin ultraviolet energy from sunlight and the action of the hormones or internal secretions, particularly parathyroid. But I wish to emphasize the last line in the paragraph quoted "bettering an already normal condition of nutrition." That expresses the new conception of health.

Neither our newer knowledge of nutrition nor ur changing conception of health implies that the older ideas, methods of practices were wrong. It means rather that we have found new aids and hence greater efficiency in the prevention and treatment of disease and in building vitality petent to advise an invalid about his The Muddled Alcohol Situation WITH THE NRA OUT CONFUSION IS IN Status (if Wines and Liquors Defined by the Codes Is Now in Doubt Beirut another the serin of articles to be printed on consecutive Sundays by the Eagle Magazine, covering various phases of the reviveJ 'utne and liquor business, tncludtng tome of the more popular recipes of the Jay and the fine art of drinking. A cocktail known under another name in France and described as "for young girls and old colonials" is The Alexander One-third gin. One -third creme de cocoa. One-third cream.

Iced, shaken and strained this has an innocent flavor but a surprising effect. A rum cocktail, said to produce a tropical atmosphere, is named The Daiquiri One and one-half jiggers of rum Juice of one lime. Teaspoon pineapple juice. Teaspoon of powdered sugar. Ice.

shake and strain. Gin Daisy Juice of a quarter lemon and one-half a lime. Two dashes of Grenadine. Teaspoon of water, plain or charged. One jigger gin.

Stir with finely crushed ice in a highball glass until the glass is frosted. seems pretty obvious in the literature of the FACA. A communication received by this department begins: "RY VIRTUE of the authority vested in the FACA by Executive Order No. 6474, dated Dec. 4, 1933, and Executive Order No.

6829, dated Aug. 21, 1934, issued pursuant to Title 1 of the National Recovery Act (There you are and by virtue of the authority vested in it by Codes of Fair Competition, etc and then the FACA lays down rules on what may be called "wine," what may be called "light wine," what can be called "vermouth" and what shall bear the names of cider, perry, sake and a whole list of others. There are many series of similar regulations on the legal definitions of various types of whiskeys, liqueurs, brandies, and gins. All of them are based on "executive orders" under the NRA! and may at this moment be of as little binding on liquor manufacturers and dealers as hieroglyphics in the tomb of the Ptolemies. diet, and that person is the invalid physician.

If you are deeply versed in quack literature you may have ome ideas which you think are quite smart, and if you are dumb enough you may imagine you know a little more than the "ordinary" doctor does about diet. All right, this is a free country and you are privileged to make all the arrangements for your own funeral. Whatever suggestions I give liere concerning food and nutrition are intended for well folk. If you are not very well, I advise you to submit the bright idea to your doctor before you try it. And don't believe that would be absurd.

A healthy person can afford to take chances monkeying with his diet. An invalid or valetudinarian no. No layman is so all-fired dumb as the one who. under -he spell of the howling charlatans, takes attitude that the "ordinary" doctor knows nothing but pills and potions. When your favorite quack appeals to your credulity along that line it is no insult to your intelligence because you haven't enough intelligence to insult IN A TALK on the protective foods" the other day 'or possibly it will come along In a few days -my articles sometimes get mixed up.

though I try to keep my ideas in order, explained that if one makes a point of getting a fair variety of foods which contain vitamins one is certain to get the other factors or elements which are most likely to be lacking in the average American dietary, namely, calcium or lime salts, phosphorus or phosphates, and iron. Now I go further and add to that the opinion, my own personal opinion merely, that if or when one gets the vitamins which are required to maintain the optimal degree of functional efficiency and vitality, there is nothing else he need be concerned about, for his diet will be perfectly suited to his needs. We are not going nutty about vitamins nor are we dropping all of the older and more familiar conceptions of diet to pursue this latest fad or fantasy. You old timers surely know that I am not given to the practice of discarding old and maybe shopworn principles or methods to run after wonderful new discoveries, unless and until I have investigated the new remedy or method carefully and perhaps tried it on the dog. Did I get snooty about tincture when mercurochrome became the rage By Guy Hickok WHAT the S.

C. 'Supreme Court i. S. Chicken), decision will do to the liquor trade is still in the lap of the nine black robed gentlemen who sit like a modern Jupiter and his assistant cods on. not Olympus, but Capitol Hill Has the FACA 'Federal Alcohol Control Administration i.

been tossed into the waste basket with other New Deal alphabet creations? Is a bottle of Kentucky Rye sold in Brooklyn to be consumed in Brooklyn, an object of inter-state commerce and therefore subject to regulation from Washington, or is it like a Jersey pullet sold to be consumed in Brooklyn an object of intrastate commerce and therefore untouchable from the District of Columbia? To a layman these legal complexities are about as clear as a Zulu incantation; and any conclusion drawn has a kinship with Voliva's assertion that the earth is not a globe, based only on the look of the thing. Delegated authority, such as called down the wrath of the black-robed Olympians, IF SO we may be barging into a period when what is legally wine in one State may be another beverage entirely across the State line, and in winch one variety of thirst-quencherr may have a score of different identities the country over. Be that as it may heat and humidity are upon us; and we must make the best of what we have no matter what its legal identity may be. A few hot weather beverages may be composed now as follows, though a little later the recipes may or may not, have to be rewritten to fit new terminologies legalized by alcohol control commissions in the 48 several State. One jigger gin.

Juice of one lemon. One teaspoon powdered sugar. Mix. strain and pour over ice in a tall I (en-ounce) glass filled with charged water. Silver Fizz Sam as a Gin Fizz, but with white of one egg added.

Golden Fizz A CHn Fizz with the yolfc of an egg added. Royal Fizz A Gin Fizz with the whole egg, nearly a whole meai..