Both Rich and Poor Fill Their Stomachs 



The difference between the diet of the poor and the diet 

 of the wealthy is more in the type of food eaten than in the 

 amount. The wealthy consume large amounts of expensive, 

 out-of-season types of food. Choice cuts of meat, fresh fruits 

 out of season, and rare dishes of all kinds find their way to 

 the table of the wealthy. In fact, the diet of the wealthy is 

 more remarkable for its taste, its expensiveness, its variety, 

 and its attractiveness than for the nourishment and energy 

 it provides. 



The poor, on the other hand, eat staple foods in season. 

 Their diet consists of hamburger instead of sirloin, apples 

 in season rather than strawberries out of season, bread in- 

 stead of an occasional cracker, eggs instead of caviar, and 

 potatoes rather than avocados. The downtrodden third, at 

 heavy work, consume more calories than the well-to-do, who 

 are usually engaged in sedentary occupations. Both fill their 

 stomachs, the poor with many calories and little water ; the 

 rich with few calories and much water. The so-called rich eat 

 their water, and the so-called poor drink it. 



Poor Man's Diet Is Ample and Economical 



These differences have given rise to much concern regard- 

 ing the adequacy of the poor man's diet. The three-M diet 

 of the South meat, meal, and molasses is frequently 

 charged with being inadequate. It is probably more ade- 

 quate, and certainly more economical, than it is interesting. 

 The diet of cheap meat, bread, cabbage, and potatoes con- 

 sumed by the industrial worker is sharply criticized by nutri- 

 tionists. But this group continues to supply more than its 

 share of the nation's football heroes, as a glance at the names 

 and addresses of most of the teams will show. 



