Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — WINTER DIET. [ARTICLE]

WINTER DIET.

A Few flints by Which Go id Health May He Attained. Few people seem to give any thought to the appropriateness of food to the season of the year, says the New York Ledger. With the coming cold weather many people remain a great deal indoors, occupying rooms which are often kept at a high temperature and with, of course, very much less fresh air than they are accustomed to during warm weather. This has a tendency to create a feverish condition of the system that should be counteracted by a free indulgence in fruits of all available sorts. For such purposes there is nothing better than good apples eaten raw. If children were permitted to eat all the fresh apples they craved throughout the winter there would be fewer diseases and deaths; while for adults, those who are of fairly quiet habits and who remain indoors a great deal, there is nothing in the whole range of food products as useful. It is claimed that severe cases of gout and other rheumatic difficulties may be entirely cured by the free use of apples. In the absence of apples, raw potatoes, eaten with a little salt, are a most excellent corrective of bad humors. An eminent lawyer of this country claims to owe his excellent health largely to the habit of eating raw potatoes with salt. Whenever he feels feverish or out of condition this is his medicine, and for years he has taken no other. Oranges, lemons, grape fruit, pineapples in their season, and all acid fruits, are valuable for people of sedentary habits. Almost all persons might improve their health if they would but give a little attention to some of the most simple of nature’s laws, and when this boon is so cheaply purchased the wonder is that it Is feo much neglected.