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leaders as she outlined the program for October “Cooking Light for the Holidays.”
Participants in the interesting two-hour session last month were Margaret Dodson, Flo Duvall, Janet Eastham and Alice Pullen, all of Flint Hill, Vivian Yancey of Amissville and Maybelle Gilkey of Chester Gap.
The Dietary Guidelines presented were in line with recommendations from the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society and USDA.
They were summarized simply as: eat a variety of foods; maintain healthy weight; choose a diet low in fat, saturated fat and cholesterol; choose a diet high in fiber; use sugar in moderation; use salt and sodium in moderation and if you drink alcoholic beverage do so in moderation.
It is interesting that we seem to be rediscovering a Diet/Health relationship that was well known in ancient times.
Twenty-five hundred years ago in classical Greece, a great physician-teacher named Hippocrates impressed upon his attentive medical students a principle that he had found to be most effective in the healing of his patients. It was, in hiw own words, “Thy food shall be thy remedy.” So here’s a toast, to the widsom of Hippocrates, “To your good health.”
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