My grandmother gave me a stack of antique recipe books over Christmas – they are quite interesting to read! Here is an excerpt from Salads for Health, copyright 1929! I thought you guys might find this humorous -
Salad – The Health Builder
The every-day use of salads helps maintain a healthy body, clear complexion, properly-conditioned teeth and gums and freedom from digestive disturbances.
In appetizing salads made of fruits and vegetables there are found three vitamins that foster a healthy body – the fat soluble Vitamin A and the water soluble Vitamins B and C. These vitamins promote healthy growth, are essential to maintenance and build up a body resistance to disease.
In the process of digestion, toxic acids are formed. These poisonous acids may endanger the well-being of the entire digestive system, the blood stream and the body in general, unless they are neutralized by such minerals as iron, potassium, calcium and sulphur, which are to be found in abundance in raw fruits and vegetables.
The daily use of salads eliminates these acids and strengthens the digestive system. Salads give the proper balance to a meal and provide the proper sunshine elements, raw food bulk and fresh vitamin properties.
Dr. E. V. McCollum and Nina Simmonds, nationally known authorities on nutrition, say, “Twice each day a salad should be eaten.” This is an excellent rule to follow if you would preserve your health and vitality.
Apple Luncheon Salad
- Lettuce
- Celery
- Watercress
- Pineapple
- Apples
- Marshmallows
- Pompeian Olive Oil Mayonnaise
Place lettuce on the plate in cup-shaped form. Then place a small brilliant red apple, scooped out, in the center of the cup-shaped lettuce. Fill the apple with diced pineapple, celery and marshmallows which have been thoroughly mixed with Pompeian Olive Oil Mayonnaise. Garnish with two sprigs of watercress placed at the side of the apple.
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Kath,
First of all I really love your blog. You have such a great story and it’s really awesome to see all your progress.
I’m in college and suffered from the freshman 15 weight gain. I’ve decided to get my life back on track and have started eating healthy (a pricey thing to do in college!) and exercising. I’m just curious when I should start seeing/feeling results. Is weighing yourself daily a good idea? I know this is all general, but I just want to know that may hard work is going to pay off because sometimes I can get discouraged when I don’t see the scale move. I’m working on losing about 15 lbs and I’m 5’1. What do you think is a good amount of time for that weight to come off? Thanks for the awesome blog!!
Vintage health books. =D Cute.
I have recently started reading you blog, and I just wanted to say that it’s been really inspiring. I’m a senior in high school and am going to college to be a nutritionist.
Just wanted to say hi!
Oh gee, this reminds me of those vintage Weight Watchers recipes that circle the internet, endless variation of marshmallow-celery-gelatin mixtures to keep us healthy and strong.
Nutritional sciences have evolved so quickly, eh?!
I just wanted to say that I think you do a great job answering questions as it is and I think you shouldn’t stress out about it if you can’t get to them all.
If us readers really want to know and don’t get an answer maybe we can ask again when you aren’t swamped with as many comments – and sometimes other posters answer each others questions so you shouldn’t feel like you need to address them too. I will say I like how you do respond to the comments and keep the blog interactive (no wonder it’s getting so popular!) but I don’t think anyone expects you to get to each and every one!! It does seem most people that read your blog know something about nutirition and answer each others questions so you don’t really have to address all of them!
hmm…I wonder what that olive oil mayonnaise is and if they still make it! haha. I’m going to google it now…
HAHA, I thought this was hilarious! Talk about a “healthy” salad. Keep up the great work, I love the blog. I too am in school for my second degree…from sociology to nutrition, so I feel your pain with all of the pre-requisites. It should be worth the 2-3 years to have a career to love for life. Also, the “husband” has inspired me to bake and so I found a reader recipe in Cooking Light, for flas/oatmeal rolls and they came out delish!
Brittany,
You should feel better the day you start eating healthier. Junk food has the amazing ability to override good habits and even when I have a little bit of something I normally don’t eat I feel worse. My weight started coming off right away, but I had 20 pounds to lose. The closer you are to goal, the slower it will come off. This is NORMAL and healthy!! I would say a half a pound a week is a healthy rate. Any more and you’ll probably be too hungry (this is what I found and I lost about 2 pounds a month over a year.) Good luck!!
K
LOVE the health books. just fab
I disagree with you. Indeed, I?m not giving a ringing disagreement, but just sayin? what I think. I have my opinion, you have yours.