By aged in this connection we refer less to people who have reached a particular number of years of age than to people who have reached such an age as to have retired from all vigorous activities. Some people are aged at forty years; others are young at seventy. If one takes to the chimney corner at forty and withdraws from the strenuous activities and high tension of business and professional life, he is a candidate for the dietary regime here outlined, If, on the other hand, a man of seventy is vigorous in body, and is still leading a strenuous life, he may continue to use the same dietary that he did when he was forty-five years of age. The characteristic of diet for the aged should be that it is simple, easily digested, and nourishing, though the quantities taken should be very much reduced. A rational diet for an aged person would be:

Breakfast

Cereal, cream and sugar. One soft-boiled egg. One hot muffin. One cup of coffee.

Dinner

Bouillon or vegetable soup.

Meat: Chicken fricassee, small portion.

Potato, boiled, one.

Vegetable: Cauliflower, creamed.

Fruit, stewed or canned.

Dessert: Custard.

Supper

Puree or cream soup.

Bread and butter.

Tea.

Stewed prunes or apple sauce.