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Oranges, Lemons*
(grapefruit Furnish
Share Of Vitamines
'If there is one general fault and
danger with the average1 winter diet.
' It la an over supply pi flpury. starehy
and pantt food*. Tro^we need large
quantities of the starch-sugar group of
foodn. but at the same time *e mast
guard, against failing to balance our
meals with sufficient green, succulent
and mineral bearing dements.
Hearty dost* of griddle cakes and
syrup ate nourishing and heat giving,
but they must he offset by some form
of “roughage" or juicy vegetables and
fruits. We csti stand a concentrated
winter menu of bean's, sweet potatoes,
waffles, rich, gravies and meat pies as
long os we also eat sufficient amounts
of the regulating, if mysterious, vita
mine.
It may seem difficult to secure bal
ancing foods in winter, byt really we
have a fair supply in oranges, lemons
and grape fruit, iu cranberries and
such essentially , winter vegetables as
kale, celery, spinach, cabbage and its
transformation Into sauerkraut. All of
the citrus fruits contain large quanti
ties of the valuable acid so helpful1 in
regulating the liver anil c oling the
blood. Grape fruit possesses n bitter
tonic in addition to its share of potash
shared by the lemon. It slirtuld be
eaten without sugar to secure the most
marked benefits.
