Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — MAKING MOST OF ALL VEGETABLES [ARTICLE]

MAKING MOST OF ALL VEGETABLES

Families With Back-Yard Gardens Will Need to Do Little - ' Buying in the Markets. PRACTICAL HINTS ARE GIVEN One of the Safest Rules for Keeping Well Is to Eat Variety of Food— Starch and Sugar Valuable as .Fuel Foods. All over the country war gardens have been planted to raise food to "help halt the Hun.” This summer millions of cans of vegetables will be put up by canneries and housewives for winter use, but everyone should have a chance to eat the fresh vegetables while they are at their best. If you have more than you can use now, sell them to your less fortunate neighbor who has no garden. What can’t be used fresh, can for winter. One of the safest rules for keeping well is to eat a variety of food. Vegetables are a great help fin giving variety to your meals. Eat vegetables every day; many are mild laxatives and they are better than medicine. Use many kinds and lots of them. Let them take the place of part of the meat and bread you are using today. Don’t think that because vegetables contain so much water they are not good food. They are one of the most valuable kinds of food we have. Vegetables hgve their own particular part in the diet which neither meats nor cereals nor fruits nor sweets can play. Part That Vegetables Play. They are appetizers. Their delicious flavors stimulate digestion. They furnish fuel and protein. Vegetables, such as sweet potatoes, .green lima beans, green corn, white potatoes, green peas, onions, beets, carrots and squash contain enough' starch and sugar to make them valuable as fuel foods. Some of these are protein foods, too. They help prevent constipation. The woody part of vegetables is valuable to give bulk to the food. For very small children it should be removed by rubbing the cooked vegetable through a sieve, but a grown person Of sound digestion neeas some vs this woody portion. Don’t cut out all the hard part from asparagus and such foods. The mild acid in such vegetables as tomatoes has some laxative effect. Minerals Are Needed. They furnish mineral matter. This is one of the most important parts that vegetables play in the diet. Without small amounts of mineral salts no part of the body can be built; they are in nerves, brain, bone, blood and muscles. Even after growth those minerals must be furnished to replace the parts of the body used up by exercise. They have an important part in keeping the different parts of the body working smoothly. Eat a variety of vegetables to furnish these much-needed minerals. , They furnish other important food constituents about which we know but little as yet We do know, however, that these substances play an Important part in promoting growth in the young and bodily well-being for everyone through life. Eat the green leaf vegetables, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, Swiss chard, collards, Brussels sprouts, celery and onions. They are especially rich in these growth-promoting food constituents. Don’t throw away your beOt tops, onion fops, turnip tops and radish tops. Serve them for greens.