The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 31

LIVING Boston Evening Globe Wednesday, December 27, 1972 GEORGE FRAZIER NUTRITION By JEAN IAYER Get out of the kitchen At this time of year all the slush isn't in the streets a lot of it is in the daily columns, the ones in this paper not excluded. Come I 2r Lv. ftnii 41 11 111 I 1 'icy the season when 'tis to be merry, to deck the halls with holly, and to do the Morris dance on the lawn, there is a sudden stirring of folksiness in too damn many columnists a splattering of pine-coned nostalgia, a citing of Scripture by a roundtable of old reprobates, that sort of disgusting sentimentality and sanctimo- niousness. There is also, in certain quarters, an irresistible impulse to write about one's children. But who the hell cares about a columnist's offspring how cute they are or what bright sayings emerge from their gooey lips? It is sickening, sick How to meet daily protein requirement One often hears nutritionists glibly refer to the "necessary" intake of proteins as somewhere between 50 to 60 grams per day.

To me it's a fairly meaningless statement. How can one tell if you're getting 60 grams of protein a day? A Making a rough estimate of your own protein intake is a fairly simple matter. An ounce of meat that is relatively lean, or an ounce of fish, poultry or cheese contains, on the average, 7 grams of protein as does one egg Fattier meats, of course, provide less. An eight-ounce glass of milk contains 8 grams of A serving from the bread and cereal group contains about 2 grams, and a cup of dried peas or beans is about 14 grams bij about twice the amount in an ounce of meat. So if "you eat 6 ounces of meat group foods (which adds up to 42 grams), 2 cups of milk (16 grams) and 4 servings (8 grams) from the bread and cereal group you have easily met your protein requirement for the day.

Remember, cereal proteins which are not' as complete are enhanced by combin- ing them with animal proteins. Eating dry cereal with milk, for instance, is a classic example of how cereal protein is improved in a very natural combination of foods. Protein is one of the nutrients which will be listed in grams per serving, under the new guidelines for nutritional label- THE WINDOW SHOP: THE CLOSING OF AN INSTITUTION (Bob Backoff photo) Curtain falls for Window Shop MANAGUA'S VICTIMS more concern irtg-of -fodds. As more and more companies list the amount of nutrients on the label, it will become possible for the consumer, say, to compare two cans of corned beef hash and determine by their protein content which is truly the better buy. I was in a nature food store the other day and noticed a number of products flavored with carob.

What is carob? A Carob is the nature food store's answer to chocolate. Based on the notion that chocolate or cocoa makes the calcium in milk unavailable, chocolate products i i 1 1 i i'f hll-Jj I', if hir i i li Miff 1 i ening, sickening, and the day I am tempted to write a word about my sons I'll put them up for adoption instead. I am weary and sick unto death of such columns of all those remembrances of old-fashioned Christmases, of so much as a wee word about someone's impoverished -childhood, and, most of all, by God, of anything elegiac about the innocence of infancy. Why, at this time of year, doesn't some columnist have the decency to look back in anger? After all, the baby in the bassinet may grow up to become a racist a mad-dog killer and not a Nobel Prize Laureate or a justice of the Supreme Court with the wisdom and compassion of a William Brennan. Gazing into the cradle, who is to know whether what he sees will become an Andy Granatelli or another Keats? SPARE US THE RECOLLECTIONS It is time that columnists stopped pausing between drinks to dredge up some sentiment from the Good Book.

After all, doesn't the devil cite Scripture more often than do saints? Nor should we be subjected at this time of year; year in year out, to columnists' recollections of Christmases past. In a season when the Mad Bomber is on the loose, how can any housebroken columnist presume upon our patience with stuff that couldn't be of any less urgency? The future, as the man said, is now, and it is incumbent upon all of us who have the privilege of thjs pulpit to write about what may lie ahead, and, in doing so, to make it a little better than it might be'other-wise: The hell with what happened ten Christmases ago. In 1973 let Bubba be back, and Babs Walters looking a little less than as if she just got out of bed. Let there be men of erudition and justice and humility nominated for the highest court. Let every hack politician be returned to private life.

Let Steve and Eydie, heavenly twins or not, be ordered to set up light housekeeping, never again to open their lips in what they dare call song. Let all sportswriters emulate Red Smith, showing a social conscience instead of serving as the laureates of the owners in exchange for free meals and bottled spirits. Let any Southern governor who sets assassins free be tarred and feathered and hanged from the highest tree. In such times of catastrophe as this, let columnists write, not. about their own children, but about the children in Managua, Nicaragua.

Even if only by sheer coincidence, the acrostic in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, showed more concern than some columnists did the same day a nine-letter word meaning, "Mosquito Coast nation." In this, season and in every season yet to come, let all columnists be caretakers, not of their own images, of their memories and of their children and of their way with Holy Writ, but of what is a-cumin' in. Let the dead past bury its dead. By Ellen Goodman Globe Staff There were the days, and they were good ones, when the ladies of Cambridge, wives of professors and professionals who -lived in the rarified atmosphere of Harvard Square, first formed the Window Shop to help refugees from Nazism. Those days began in 1939. Now it is 1972 and on December 30, the Window Shop will close.

It will close because there are no more refugees from Nazism. It will close because committed of another generation think its aims are limited, a bit precious. It will close because Charity is a business these days. And when it closes, the Cambridge sense of place will be diminished. Today the Window Shop, a red clapboard building where Longfellow's village blacksmith once lived, sits on Brattle Street like a red hotel on the blue corner of the Monopoly Board.

It is a combination coffee Shop, gift shop and bakery. As a business it had lost $50,000 over the" last three years, but as real estate it is about to be sold for a reputed $300,000 to the. Cambridge Adult Education Center. Richard Kahn, head of the Board of Directors, explained the sale in good busi-nesseze, "We like to put it this. we are changing our assets from the building and land to more liquid forms." There are many who call $300,000 a bargain price for this piece of property but it was sold to another non-profit organization which will renovate instead of raze the structure and reportedly plan to maintain the bakery shop.

The head of the Board of Directors for the Advalt Education Center, which is a Brattle St. neighbor of the Window Shop, Jere Dykema says, "Of course we have very strong and warm feelings about the Window Shop and its importance to the Cambridge and Harvard Square area, and we are anxious to preserve the building and use it as an educational center consistent with the kind of purposes of the Window Shop." The Window Shop was not always a piece of property on the Harvard Square Board. Once it was an idea. At the approach of World War II, a group of Harvard and Cambridge women saw the needs of refugees coming to the 11 7J7JR ft ik "inr. MARY MOHRER WITH WARES.

(Phil Preston photo) and began to act as a way station, gently, introducing waves of foreigners to the language and customs of the country. This was the sort of sheltering function it would serve through the years. "The hardest years were the best years," said Miss Mohrer, who has managed the Window Shop for all of its 33 years. "In the early years we worked day and night and Sundays we went to the boats to help with the luggage as the refugees came. We felt needed." WINDOW SHOP, Page 34 area from Nazi Europe with few transferable skills.

They included Mrs. Howard Mumford Jones and Mrs. Merle Fainsod, Mrs. Francis Fremont-Smith and Mrs. Charles Wyzanski and Mrs.

Oliver Cope. They wanted to help the refugees make an adjustment to the country and make a living. In 1939 they were helped by Mary Mohrer, an Austrian schoolteacher who spoke five languages and was asked to help with the newly founded gift shop. Together they taught the immigrant women about American sizes and tastes nave apparently Deen Danisnea irom nature food store shelves in favor of carob. As a result, you see candy bars made with carob, carob-flavored protein drinks, carob-flavored soy tablets, and even carob-flavoring mix for cocoa.

Indeed, carob is substituted for chocolate and cocoa even when it in no way relates to milk consumption! But the facts are that scientific research indicates that the addition of normal quantities of chocolate or cocoa to milk has no appreciable effect on the availability of calcium. Carob or St. John's Bread as it is also called is the fruit of the locust tree, native to the Mediterranean. While health food devotees claim it has a chocolate-like flavor, the epicurean encyclopedia of foods, Larousse Gastronomie, described it as having an insipid sweet pulp. As ersatz instant cocoa mix, carob powder with brown sugar sells in the nature food store for about three times as much as the supermarket variety of instant cocoa.

To be sure, it is a good idea from the standpoint of reducing that fat content of the diet to substitute cocoa for chocolate, since chocolate has substantially more fat. While discussing rheumatoid disease in a recent article, you mentioned (that there is a special diet used in the treatment of gout. As a gout sufferer, I'd like to know more of the details of that diet. A Gout is a condition characterized by abnormally high contents of uric acid in the blood. Since purines, normally found in a great number of foods, break down to form uric acid, it seemed logical to use a low purine diet to treat gout.

More recently, however, it has been recognized that since a great percentage of the purines come from the normal breakdown of body protein and others are synthesized in the liver, severe dietary restriction of purines is unrealistic. In addition, newer drug therapy is more effec-, tive. Nevertheless, most physicians do recommend that people with gout eliminate those foods highest in purines, and this list represents a relatively small sacrifice. It includes sweetbreads, anchovies, sardines, liver, kidney, meat TRUMAN HATED HYPOCRISY What prompts this this show of incivility, Jerry Lucas scores with kids lilllllif "I In surliness in what we like to think of as a joyous time, is the death of Harry S. Truman in his 89th year.

How he hated hypocrisy! How he must have raged in the realization that the office he had occupied with such distinction, such greatness, was being disgraced by a mad bomber. Harry Truman had his share of human frailties, but neither dissembling nor a craving for popularity was among them. In our time, no President of the United States ever risked opprobrium to the degree that he did when he razed Nagasaki and Hi By Josh Eppinger Special to the Globe A 6-8 pro basketball player with a Phi Beta Kappa key and a mania for memory and magic is bidding to become the next Captain Kangaroo or Buffalo Bob of children's television. To your battle stations, Cookie Monster and Misterogers Jerry Lucas is shooting for a piece of the kids' TV mar- 'ket. The New York Knicks star, who has scored more than 13,000 points during a 9-year career, recently tested television waters by planting his size 13 shoes on stage as host of a three-hour ABC holiday special The Jerry Lucas Super Kids Day Magic Jamboree.

Young early-morning TV addicts sampled the Lucas repertoire, which is large- LUCAS, Page 38 HARRY TRUMAN risked opprobrium brains, mussels and fish roe. Your answer to a question about the calories in powdered cream didn't mention the liquid substitutes. Can you tell me about the caloric content of liquid non-dairy cream products? Are they all (J, I. 9 it- i -J roshima and cashiered Douglas MacArthur. He was a man of unassailable integrity in lofty matters.

He was a blunt man and, as they say in the newspaper business, columnists please copy. The closest I ever got to Truman was one early morning when I decided to join the brigade of reporters that accompanied him on his daily constitutional in New York. I remember how he came through the lobby of the Waldorf, like a whirlwind, and how we yapped at his feet as he headed up Park Avenue. He walked very fast and it was a job keeping pace with him. Questions were thrown at him and answers were snapped, sometimes i with a turn of his head, sometimes with a scowL some-i times with a smile.

On that morning at least, he couldn't have been less evasive, and there wasn't one among us who was without a sense of pride that he was our Presi-i dent. And as he went back into the hotel he smiled and winked. "I'm not getting out of the kitchen," he said, i Hie legacy left us by Harry Truman is in many i rorms, but none more memorable and inspiring than his candor and his absolute professionalism. He was a big boy who was aware of the penalties of plain talk and ac-j tion. "If you can't stand the heat," he said, "get out of I the kitchen." It is an observation that should be en-i graved over the entrance to every city room, every col-j umnist's quarters, right to use on a reducing diet? A The average non-dairy liquid cream substitute contains about 25 calories per tablespoon.

The same amount of half-and-half contains approximately 20 calories whereas light cream has 30 calories. If you drink an average of three cups of coffee a day with about 2 tablespoons of non-dairy creamer per cup, you've consumed about 150 calories. Substituting milk for non-dairy cream could cut about 90 calories, which would mean that you could have a small evening snack and still be even. 7r. Jeiin Mayer, professor cf -nutrition i I J'- Ilancni School of Fubhc Hcaith, the ckjimuin of the- White House erence on J-'i oJ.

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