That Is Very Interesting. What Particular Diseases Are Benefited By Granose?

"Granose is the nearest a specific for constipation of anything yet discovered, and it will do more to smooth an irritable temper and clear away the clouds of despondency than any amount of good luck. People who have headaches, skin eruptions, asthma, epilepsy, piles, flatulent dyspepsia, torpid liver, or Bright's disease, should try Granose. Delicate and anaemic women and children will be greatly benefited by such foods, and if combined with the nut foods, rich and healthy blood will bring bright color and strength. If those who are subject to bilious attacks and sick headaches will eat such cereal foods as Granose, they will rarely, if ever, need drugs to keep them in condition. Granose is a good food in nearly all forms of disease, except diabetes and intestinal inflammations."

"Doctor, you speak of Granose as almost a cure-all."

"Not at all, but so many diseases result from mal-nutri-tion it can safely be said that whatever relieves it must necessarily be a blessing to the race; and while Granose will not raise the dead, it is a valuable aid in restoring vigorous life in many forms of disease."

Is There No Other Cereal Food Equal To Granose As An Invalid Food?

"That depends on conditions. The same company make a food they call Granola, which is, as they style it, a twin of Granose. Granola is a mixture of wheat and oats, but prepared in a different way. It contains slightly more nutriment than Granose or other wheat foods, and is especially valuable for children, invalids, chronic dyspeptics, and those who have dilated stomachs or uric acid diseases. Both of these foods are ready for immediate use. A little water, milk or cream is all that is required to provide a health giving and appetizing dish."

"I don't see the advantage of having two foods so much alike."

"Different preparations, though equally good, supply different needs; besides there is a great difference in people's tastes, which is always an important consideration. To meet the great variety of tastes and needs of the afflicted, the Sanitarium Health Food Co. make a great variety of cereal foods. Crystal Wheat is another cooked food of much merit. It should be prepared in about the same way as rolled oats. Being coarser than Granose or Granola, it requires some cooking. It is a desirable food for daily use, and useful in dyspepsia and uric acid diseases. These foods are altogether unlike Graham flour, cracked wheat and oats, all of which have more or less sharp edge flakes of bran, which sometimes irritate delicate stomachs. The processes used in the manufacture of the

Sanitarium foods reduce the bran to such a fine state as to make them more palatable and less irritating."

"That all sounds very well, but the public will be slow to believe that any of these foods are nutritious like beet-steak,"

"That is a subject on which the public are much misin-formed. As a matter of fact, one pound of either Granose or Granola contains nearly three times as much nutriment as a pound of beefsteak."

"I don't see how that can be."

"Beefsteak contains so much water - nearly three-fourths - depending on how fat it is."

"From what you say, doctor, the making of health foods by the Sanitarium company is a great blessing to the afflicted,"

"Yes; in addition to the foods mentioned, they make numerous others that are extensively used. Their Gluten biscuit is of inestimable value for diabetics. They also make a 40 and 60 per cent Gluten biscuit, on which many diabetics thrive. So far as we know these are the only reliable Gluten preparations in this country. Their pure Gluten biscuit does not show any starch by the ordinary tests. As foods for the well, the Sanitarium biscuits (crackers) are both palatable and healthful. They make entire wheat and oatmeal biscuit with and without sweet-ning and shortening. Their plain biscuits, containing the entire grain with nothing else but a little salt are the best for dyspeptics and athletes. Their Gofio, Zwieback, Avenola, Wheat Granola are all useful cooked foods, while their Wheat Germ Grits is a good substitute for meats, and especially valuable to the corpulent and rheumatic with a tendency to constipation Of recent years many patent infant foods have appeared, and the Sanitarium company make a good one, but they do not recommend it for children who have not begun teething."

Are There No Other Important Ready Prepared Cereal Foods?

"Yes, the Sanitas Food Co., of Battle Creek, Mich., make a Malted Gluten that greatly aids in the cure of intestinal diseases, and as a food to tone up those who are run down. It is also of value in neurasthenia. Those who wish to get fat are sometimes greatly aided by first using such foods as Malted Gluten, or other food rich in nitrogen."