The skin, being a delicate and sensitive secretory organ, is easily affected by habits, diet and exercise.

Nettle rash is perhaps the best example of a cutaneous disorder resulting from the toxic influences of food.

Persons who eat indigestible compounds, as pie, cake, preserves, fried meats, fried starchy foods, as potatoes, and such made dishes as croquettes, and those who wash down each mouthful of bread and butter with weak tea or coffee containing sugar and cream, are frequently troubled in the cold months with various eruptions of the skin, especially on the hands. The clammy moist hand of the dyspeptic is one of the first symptoms of an unhealthy skin. In cold weather the skin of the face is rather red and coarse; in warm weather it becomes greasy. To correct these conditions, add to the daily diet tender green vegetables that can be eaten raw with a little French dressing. Give an abundance of ripe fruits, fruit juices, whole wheat bread, rye bread, and now and then brown bread. Orange juice, grape juice, apple juice, early in the morning, or between the morning and noon meal, are to be recommended. If the patient is thin and anaemic, follow diet in leanness; if robust, the diet for the obese.

Give plenty of water between meals.

May Eat

Lean beef, a little

Mutton

Chicken

Cream soups

Fruits

Fruit juices

Fruit desserts, with tapioca or arrowroot An occasional baked potato Boiled rice

Topground green vegetables Green salads, with French dressing Orange salad Grape fruit salad Cantaloupe salad

Whole wheat bread, well buttered Pilot bread Swedish bread Toast

Brown bread Graham bread Gluten bread, occasionally Puree of lentils Puree of peas Nut foods

Vegetable gelatin desserts Milk toast

Light egg dishes, especially those made from hard-boiled yolks

Avoid

All coarse vegetables

Mashed and fried potatoes

Boiled cabbage

Kale

Pork

Veal

Lobsters

Crabs

Fish

Oysters and clams

Pickles and foods in vinegar

Rich sauces

Mayonnaise

All meat soups

Fried foods in general

Pies

Puddings

Cakes

Candies

Sugar

Tea

Coffee

Chocolate

Cocoa and cocoa preparations

Entrees