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noon limcli or are very hungry, fruits are very good thingsi 

 to take, because fruit is not as concentrated as some food, 

 jaieli as eggs and meat, and it will satisfy you and do you 

 some good. 



A MEMBER: I should like to ask the Professor the 

 comparative nutritive value between vegetables such as 

 carrots and turnips, and apples and pears! 



MISS HATCH : If you w^ere to take the total percentage 

 of carbohydrates of the fruits you mentioned, and vegeta- 

 bles, it would be just about the same and the mineral matter 

 as contributed by both groups of food. There is more acid 

 ■■'n the fruit than in the vegetables, but very often in making 

 out a well rounded diet, we should see that there are plenty 

 of carrots, turnips, etc., and also plenty of fruit, because the 

 difference in the flavor will stimulate the appetite, but the 

 contribution is very much the same. 



A ]\IEMBER : There are some doctors who believe that 

 fruit should be eaten betAveen meals and that if you take it 

 that way, you will not crowd your stomach so much. 



MISS HATCH: I don't know but what eating between 

 meals is a good thing; I find it agrees with me. There is 

 j.n other thing I have not heard spoken of in reference to 

 fruit; as we grow old, the tissues harden, that is one cause 

 of death; the acids of fruits tend to prevent the hardening 

 Vi the tissues. 



:\IRS. STOEROAV: It seems to me the question asked 

 brings out a point which has impressed me always, and that 

 is how little we know of what constitutes a balanced diet; 

 what would be the qualities necessary to keep us all in good 

 liealth? Not necessarily the amount or number of times we 

 eat a day, but from what diet could we get the right propor- 

 tion? I wonder if Prof. Hatch could enlighten us on that 

 question ? 



.MISS HATCH: Experiments have l)een tried over and 

 over again on different kinds of diet and you find people 

 vary in their opinions. l)ut the general concensus of opinion 

 rraong physiologists is that a mixed diet, one consisting of a 



