YOUR HEALTH: HERE'S HOW
Stafford, Jane
YOUR HEALTH: Here's How =By JANE STAFFORD EVEN during the steaming, sizzling days of mid-Summer, when appetites and the cook's spirits are likely to flag, nourishing, balanced meals must be eaten....
...C. M. Shaar, of the Navy Medical Corps, report in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association here...
...This crust apparently serves as protection, source of nourishment, and a scaffolding for the support of connective tissue...
...The extra water lost in this way should be made up by drinking more...
...Similar good results were obtained in most of the other patients but the Navy doctors warn that the red cell paste is not a panacea for all chronically infected wounds...
...The most plausible explanation of the healing action of the red cell paste is that it supplies required nutritional elements or proteins to tissues lacking them because of poor circulation...
...This was the original meaning of the word, they point out in suggesting this way of re-salting...
...With 12 applications during two weeks, complete healing was achieved of a varicose ulcer that had persisted for 10 months and had been recurring over a period of 16 years...
...In hot weather you probably will be thirsty enough to drink both, and cold milk is itself refreshing: Or you can get your milk in cooked dishes or in cheese and ice cream...
...The red cells are apparently absorbed to a certain degree by the tissues until the granulations reach the surface and a crust forms...
...This may be done by taking salt tablets, under a physician's direction...
...Salads, fruits, and vegetables are Summer favorites and this is good, because these foods furnish vitamins and minerals...
...If you build your lunch or dinner around a salad, however, be sure to add cheese or eggs or some other source of protein, such as meat, fish, or poultry...
...Now, especially, when everyone is working harder and longer than ever, it is necessary to eat energy-producing foods, to provide for the energy spent...
...The old idea that protein food makes you hot has been debunked by recent scientific reports...
...With perspiration, salt as well as water as lost from the body...
...It is made by mixing red blood cell concentrate with a jelly of tragacanth and hexyl-resorcinol...
...New skin extends over the surface of the wound under the crust and when the crust drops off, the surface is completely covered...
...The red cell paste is applied directly to the wound after it has been cleaned, and is then covered with a sterile dry dressing...
...Home economists of the U. S. Department of Agriculture suggest serving salted vegetables as salads...
...If perspiration is very heavy, it is advisable to make up this salt loss also...
...Science Service Reports Red Blood Cell Paste Speeds Healing of Ulcers CHICAGO—Red blood cells, an important by-product of plasma production, are now being made into a paste which speeds healing of old, infected burns, varicose and other ulcers, and extensive granulating wounds, Lieut...
...In hot weather you perspire more because this is one.mechanism for keeping cool...
...The main difference the weather makes in the body's food requirements is in salt and fluids...
...Some persons make a practice of sprinkling a little salt into their drinking water in hot weather...
...Don't let iced beverages crowd out your daily quota of milk...
...Clifford K. Murray and Capt...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 33
