Food, Fuel for the Human Engine: What to Buy, how to Cook It, how to Eat it

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Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1917 - 77 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 6 - Mental work requires so little extra fuel that it is not necessary to consider specially. There are three groups of fuel foods. Here they are in the order of their cost per calory, those giving most energy for the money heading the list : 1. Starchy foods: Cornmeal, hominy, broken rice, oatmeal, flour, rice, macaroni, sphaghetti, cornstarch, dried lima beans, split peas (yellow), dried navy beans, bread, potatoes, bananas.
Σελίδα 6 - On the other hand, the human engine may easily become overstoked by an excess of fuel. The following list shows the main fuel foods, the great foundation foods of the diet, that supply energy for muscular work. Mental work requires so little extra fuel that it is not necessary to consider specially.
Σελίδα 23 - Survey. The calorific value of the coals analyzed for this report is expressed in terms of British, Thermal Units, the unit of heat measurement more commonly used in the United States. This unit of heat...
Σελίδα 9 - Moderate helping of any roast of lean meat or non-fat poultry or fish, baked or boiled potato, any bulky vegetable (as lettuce, Swiss chard, parsnips, carrots, turnips, celery, oyster plant, cabbage, Brussels sprouts tomatoes, salsify, Spanish onions, spinach), coffee, fruit dessert— grapefruit cocktail, oranges, or stewed fruits. Exercise should, of course, be followed for its other beneficial effects as well as for weight reduction. Where there is pronounced overweight it is well to weigh every...
Σελίδα 7 - The following is a list of the building and repair foods in the order of their cost, those giving most building and repair material...
Σελίδα 7 - ... Cornmeal Corn syrup Lard Hominy Dates Salt Pork Broken rice Candy Oleomargarine Oatmeal Molasses Nutmargarine Flour Most Fruits Peanut butter Rice Milk Macaroni Bacon Spaghetti Butter Cornstarch Cream Dried lima beans Split peas, yellow Dried navy beans Bread Potatoes About 85 per cent, of the fuel should come from this group, using starchy foods in largest amounts, fats next and sugars least. Fats, starchy foods and sugars are almost pure fuel, like coal, while cereal foods also contain some...
Σελίδα 18 - Vegetable soup (no cream soups) ; rye bread, bran bread or bran biscuit, or Graham rolls — thinly buttered (one small pat only) ; lettuce and cheese salad, or lettuce and tomato, or fruit salad; French dressing. Dinner: Moderate helping of any roast of lean meat or non-fat poultry or fish ; baked or boiled potato...
Σελίδα 17 - ... to careful medical examination. This shows that no matter how careful the medical examination, it has been impossible to select a favorable class of mature overweights while it has been possible to select a relatively favorable class of mature underweights. It should also be remembered that these figures relate to underweight and overweight entirely apart from other adverse factors.

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