The Food Question: Health and Economy

Protein is the tissue builder of the body; but the actual amount of tissue built new each day is very small, therefore the need for a large supply of protein for this purpose is...

A balanced dietary is one that supplies in about the right proportion all the kinds of food required to nourish the body. From the earliest impressions of childhood, many person...

To thousands of home-keepers the requirements are new: a correct knowledge of proteids, of carbohydrates, of calories is unfamiliar to them. They cannot grasp what is asked of t...

Cancer is a disease of modern civilization. It is the one major unsolved problem in the field of medical science to-day. From the _Journal of the American Medical Association_ o...

As showing its perfectly digested state, demonstrations have proved that fruit sugar may be injected directly into the blood, from which it will be utilized in nourishing the bo...

"Eat ye that which is good." "That thou mayest prosper and be in health." "Eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness." "Gather up the fragments that remain, that...

_Corn Meal Puffs._--One cup pastry flour, one third cup corn meal, one half teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls vegetable butter, one scant cup milk, one egg separated. Make a ba...