THE FREEDOM WAY
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Not only will these simple foods cost you less money, but
they will nourish you better and actually keep you at a
higher level of health.
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A man named Frank Tarbeaux was convicted of some petty
crime in England a number of years ago, sent to prison for
27 months. He had been a successful gambler, a high liver,
and what they fed him in prison at first dismayed him. He
thought surely he would die of starvation, either that or
boredom, because the meals were all the same.
For breakfast and supper he and his fellow prisoners
received a bowl of oatmeal, a chunk of bread, a jug of
water; at noon they received bread and a large bowl of
soup. And he thought he was badly treated. But after a few
months such health as he had never known came to him, and
when he was discharged and wrote a fabulous story of his
life, he declared: "I am grateful to that sanitarium."
Of course, it isn't necessary for anyone to go to jail to
learn and practice the benefits of simple fare. Just let
him live on a few cents a day, confine his purchases to
items which can be kept within, say, 50 cents a day for
everything under today's higher prices.
Seven or eight years ago a research foundation in
Minneapolis interested in proper nutrition, made a study of
the actual cost to maintain a human being in the peak of
health and fitness. The foundation concluded: "The average
normal American needs only a few pounds of food a day. He
can buy it at an average cost of eight cents per pound. He
can be amply nourished, if he will build his diet around a
few simple plentiful foods.
"Millions of low income and moderate income American
families are undernourished because of wasteful spending of
their food money," the report continues, "which in turn is
the result partly of 'over-civilized' eating habits and
partly of lack of education in food values. Much of their
precious food money goes for items of little food value -
'taste-ticklers' and stimulants."
As to what is needed, these are the essential or protective
foods: a pound of whole wheat foods and a pint of milk a
day, which will supply most of the proteins, vitamins, and
minerals needed for healthful, vigorous living. This basic
diet can be fortified, according to this report, with an
occasional orange or can of tomato juice and a bit of fatty
meat two or three times a week.
When this report was issued, the cost per pound of
essential foods was around eight cents. Say it has doubled
since. That makes only 16 to 20 cents per pound.
Current prices on essential low-cost foods as this was
being written, in a large city market, ran: Soy beans, 18
cents a pound; split peas, 11 cents; navy beans, 11 cents;
pinto beans, 12 cents, spaghetti, 18 cents; rice, 16 cents.
Apples were selling for 10 cents a pound, tomatoes at 14,
flour at 8, potatoes at 3, lettuce at 10 and sweet potatoes
at 10. Milk was 17 1/2cents a quart.
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