THE CHINA MÁIL, JUNE 15, 1987.
EATING BETWEEN MEALS HABIT
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Vegetable Chowder
2 slices of salt pork or bacon
1 medium sized onion, diced
2 medium sized potatoes, diced
Many of us have been brought up improvement in your family's en- fto feel that there is something ergy and good nature.
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are suggested family menus
slightly immoral about eating be- Here a meal day, with no more
tween meals. Stealing to the ice box for one
.menus printed below
Contrast These
or biscuit jar at four o'clock gives calories than: are in the 'ordinary the average person of forty the three-meal same guilty, surreptitious feeling he them. had when he was ten. To be sure, we may gladly transgress at after- noon tea or soda fountain. But we do so, inwardly convinced that eat- ing between meals is a bad habit, sure in the long run to ruin the appetite and the figure, upset the digestive rhythm and rob the stomach of its rest periods.
But now come along two zealous experimenters at Yale University— Drs. Howard W. Haggard and Leon A. Greenberg-to destroy our illu- sions. Many of us would be more efficient, they claim, if we would take five meals a day instead of three.
To prove their point they cite. tests which they made on power- machine operators whose job it was to sew together the canvas tops of tennis shoes. Workers who were given a mid-morning and a mid- afternoon snack consisting of a glass of milk and a piece of angel cake, sewed eight more pairs of shoes an hour than those who took only three meals.
Breakfast Orange Juice ́ ́Oatmeal cooked in Milk Scrambled Eggs and Bacon -
Toast and Butter Coffee Milk Mid-Morning Lunch Milk Whole-Wheat Crackers
Lunch Macaroni with Cheese, Mushrooms, Green Peppers, Onion, Tomato Smothered Apples Bread and Butter Ginger Cookies
Tea Milk
Mid-Afternoon Lunch Tomato Broth
Lettuce Sandwich
Dinner
Roast Beef
Brown Potatoes Buttered Carrots Lettuce and French Dressing Chocolate Blanc Mange Coffee Milk
Three-Meal Plan
-Breakfast Orange Juice Oatmeal cooked in Milk Scrambled Eggs and Bacon Toast and Butter
The main danger to be avoided in the extra meals is too many sweets and starches. The reason why after- noon tea so often takes away the appetite for dinner is that it is likely to consist largely of sugar, cookies and jam. The angel cake used in the experiments of Drs. Hag- gard and Greenberg was the choice of the factory workers. The Coc-Macaroni with Cheese, Mushrooms, tors would have preferred a fruit
Coffee Milk
Lunch
Cream of Celery Soup.
Green Peppers, Onion, Tomato
Ginger Cookies
or vegetable salad. It will take a Smothered Apples Bread and Butter little planning to have the right between-meal foods always on hand, but you will be well repaid by the
MIND Your MANNERS
Tea Milk
Dinner
Tomato Broth
Roast Beef Browned Potatoes
- Buttered. Carrots
Hot Slaw
Lettuce and French Dressing Chocolate Blanc Mange Wafers Coffee Milk
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and usually took a lighter lunch dinner, distributing their daily ra- tion into five instead of three parts.
These findings seem to point moral for the housewife. When the children come home hungry after school, she should neither urge them to wait until dinner without eating, Test your knowledge of correct.
nor let them fill up on sweets. She social usages by answering the fol- In the same way laboratory tests will do better to have a simple mid- lowing questions, then checking given to 213 people--school child-afternoon lunch waiting, such as a against the authoritative answers ren, college students, stenographers, cup of hot soup and a lettuce sand- of pieces and brown; saute vegetables below.
teachers and factory hands-show-|wich or a banana and a ̈ glass in the fat until light brown (about
What information concerning ed that muscular efficiency stayed milk, She can try, too, to persuade
if 5 minutes), Cover with boiling the sailing is necessary one higher for all on a five-meal than the school authorities to institute water and cook until tender. Add wishes to send a bon voyage gift on a two-or a three-meal schedule. the mid-morning lunch of fruit juice Perhaps this would not have been for milk and whole wheat crackers. 2. Should one dress for dinner true of adults who sit all day and She may well ponder, too, whether the first night' out' on an ocean do 'no active work. As a rule they a pause for a glass of orange or voyage?
have different food requirements. tomato juice in the middle of her People who had the between-meal own morning might not speed up snacks did not eat more food. They her cooking and dusting.
1 medium sized carrot, diced
cup celery, diced
2 cups milk
Salt, pepper
Cut the bacon or pork in small
hot milk, salt and pepper.
FOR THE SPORTSMAN.
Slip a tin of She-ko into your bag, it will come in handy for the treatment of cuts, scratches; bruises and the many other minor injuries which are invari- ably the sportsman's lot.
There is no more useful adjunct to a
1.
to friends at the boat?
3. Does one have to pay for the words in the address and signature of a cablegram?
4. What determines the amount of tips on shipboard?
What would you do if—
You have converted your money |intö travellers' cheques which you
wish to safeguard-
(a) Depend on company to keep
record of cheques cashed?
(b) Keep record of serial num-
bers in cheque book?
(c) Keep record or serial num- bers on person or in place separate from cheques?
Answers
first aid outfit. Composed of a blend 1.
Name of boat) steamship line,
of the finest curative antiseptic date of sailing and, if possible, ingredients, She-ko cools, soothes and cabin number. --rapidly-heals.-
***Equally good for skin complaints such as ringworm; - eczema)-itch, pim- ples, boils, ulcers, sores of all kinds and external piles. Medicine dealers every- where can supply.
SHE-KO
Antiseptic
No, nor the last night before
Manding.
3. Yes.
4. Amount of service; larger tips on larger boats; tourist class less than first 'class.
Best "What Would You Do" solu- |tion—(c). Otherwise, in case of Soothing Healing. loas, cheques and record of serial
numbers are both gone.
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