Fried Foods: Fried meat, potatoes, eggs; fritters, doughnuts, waffles, pancakes, French toast. Fat so combined with starch or protein delays, even prevents, digestion. Starch requires longer cooking than is possible in frying.
Fresh Baked (less than twenty-four hours old): Bread, rolls, muffins, cake. Rolls or muffins may be served warm by re-heating in oven. Fresh bread or cake forms a sticky mass, very difficult for the digestive juices to dissolve or penetrate.
Not permissible for children under six years:
All difficult of digestion.
- Popcorn
- Soda water
- Ice cream cones
- Peanuts
- Baked beans
- Rusks
- Grocery cookies
- Cucumbers
- Cabbage
- Whole nuts
- Cherries
- Berries
(Some physicians also exclude all cake, candy, ice cream, jam.)
Illnesses Produced by Wrong Feeding. Illness may be due to one of several causes. Wrong feeding is one fundamental cause of ill health and a direct cause of many forms of illness. An excess or deficiency of any one of the food elements, wrong combinations of foods, wrong habits of feeding, lack of cleanliness or purity, improper cooking, may all produce illness.
The general ill health and low vitality from wrong feeding may be due to:
(a) Auto-intoxication, from putrefaction of food in the intestine because of constipation, or from excess of purins;
(b) Excess of acid in the blood, due to excess of acid-forming foods or deficiency of alkali-forming foods;