This disease, like most urinary troubles, comes to big meat eaters, people who "live to eat," and must have big juicy steaks every day in the week. The system is able to store surplus starch and sugar, the carbohydrates, but frequently fails in many of its functions when the proteids (tissue-building foods) are taken in greater quantity than the system requires. We can, if we cut off the carbohydrates, burn the proteids to produce heat and energy, but it is an extravagant and illogical way of living. In albuminuria there is a tremendous waste of tissue, which must be counterbalanced with some nitrogenous foods, but care must be taken to keep the balance equal.

Of the leguminous seeds, lentils are preferable, as they supply nitrogen in an acceptable form. Skimmed milk, and modified milk without cream, may also be used for supplying the necessary albumin. If constipation occurs, substitute cream soups, and nut milks, and give orange juice in the early morning before breakfast. Avoid sweets and starchy foods as potatoes, white bread and cornstarch. Give pure soft water in goodly quantities.

May Eat

Water gruels, especially cornmeal gruel Skimmed milk

Modified milk, without cream Buttermilk

Skimmed milk koumys Fruit juices Carefully-cooked fruits, without sugar Light vegetables Cream soups Rice and rice preparations

Cereals with milk Skimmed milk toast Gluten toast, without butter Baked apple, occasionally Vegetable gelatin preparations Stale breads Cocoanut fingers Gluten biscuits Unleavened bread Whole wheat bread Corn breads

Later, add, white meat of chicken, white-fleshed fish, broiled, and occasionally hard-boiled yolks of eggs; but butchers' meats must be wholly excluded for a long while.

Crisp crackers may now and then be substituted for bread. All green vegetables are admissible except boiled cabbage and onions.

Avoid

All red meats

Rich sauces

Sweets

Pastries

Pies

Puddings

Spiced dishes

Pickles

Tea and coffee

Sour salads

Fried foods

Pink-fleshed fish

Beef tea

Consomme

Bouillon

Meat soups in general

Coarse vegetables

Hot breads

Fresh white bread

New beets

Corn

Raw cucumbers

Salt meats

Lobsters

Crabs

Shrimps

Clams

Cantaloupes

Mushrooms

Cheese