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met AND
HEALTH
By DR. J. T. ALLEN
Fed Specialist
Author of "EatnJ for a
Turcot:" "Th fftUt
GojptlcfHtatlh,"
(Copyright, by Joseph B, UowlesJ
ECON0M1CS.OF EATING
Desiro Is the stimulus that nature
uses to lead to obedience to her com
mands. And so Ions as the desire is
gratified naturally there Js harmony,
health nnd growth. Dut when the de
sire becomes depraved and its satis
faction abnormal, there Is Inhannony,
unbappineBs, disease and death. ,"Eat
what you like," is, therefore, as we
have already concluded, the best rule,
in spite of pure-food law, food reform
er and prohibitionist so long, that is,
as you like what is good for you. ; '
Certainly the average man eats
what he likes, without considering
whether It is good for him or whether
he is getting the most for his money.
Now is this wise? Would it not be
very much better to have a system of
eatlns; for at presents we have none,
especially in America, where we eat
nnything, any time, any way, almost.
I was trying to show the members
of a woman's club awhile ago that the
Chinese system, living on rice (entire
rice) nlmost exclusively, is better
than ours, because it furnishes better
pourlshment, avoids sickness and
feaves dish-washing. To which one
woman replied when the time came
for questions and criticism: "I sup
pose they live in that poverty-stricken
way in that poverty-stricken country
because they have to. For my part,
I'm glad I don't have to live on rice
all the time. And if it is true that a
man is what his food makes bim, I
think China is a good warning to the
rest of the world."
I have not advised living on rice,
not even on unbolted rice which dif
fers from the rice we use,: as whole
wheat differs from fine white flour.
Rice Is a one-sided diet. The system
of the Japanese, who. eat also fresh
fish nnd beans, is. much better, be
cause it supplies, besides heat and en
ergy, nn adequate proportion of flesh
and nerve food. But the point is,
the Chinese, like the Japanese, and
most other nations, have a system,
and any system is better than none,
especially in eating. The Chinese is
the opposite of our extreme, but I
hesitate not to say that the average
Chinaman is better fed than the av
erage American, so far at least as the
laborer, who needs the least brain
food, is concerned.
"But why," 1 am asked, " if the
Chinese monodiet, is so good, has
China been for centuries a by-word
for unprogressiveness?"
The resources of the Chinese are
not et understood by the rest of the
world. Food, moreover, is but the
material factor in life; the mind is
the fundamental factor, as I have en
deavored constantly to show. The
Chinese have had, from time immem
orial, a mlnd-dwarflng system of edu
cation that has effectually retarded
their progress, but all that Is being
changed, wnlch with the gradual
abolition of the death-dealing opium
habit will bring in a new China, an
other light of -Asia.
In the course of an investigation
into the relation between food and
health, a fw years ago, I discovered
two interesting general facts, from
the statistics of the state boards of
health: Death from cancer, which,
according to the late Dr. Nicholas
Senn and other good authority, is a
disease caused by indulgence! eating
(especially, I think, in meat), in
Concerning Shyness
Shyness is usually the result of inex
perience. Contact with the world will
always lessen and often cure it A
bashful person is agonizingly con
scious of herself and fancies that
other people are thinking about her.
She forgets that each person is neces
sarily much occupied, with his "ego."
A friend of mine who lived in the
country received a visit one day from
a rural neighbor. She was distressed
to 'find, on looking down,' that there
was a hole in the hem of her dress.
Tne-vl8ltcr also seemed to have his
efft llxed on the. unlucky rent Pres
entlj she could bear it,nq longer, and
aid: , "Mr. X, t see' that you are took
lni at the hole- in my gown. I must
aDOloglJ lor It,- but'the truth is I did
not know It was -there till Just now."
To which her visitor replied:- "Oh,
- 4ied. Mrs' Z. I did not notice
70ur dress was torn' till you spoke' of J
it- I was lool-ing n a noie wnico xuw
0Tjddenly:ppered to my shoe." --"Qui
'excuse- 'accuse'." One should .rare
creases - rapidly among Germans and
Irish Immigrants and their descend
ants, the two races who most quickly
adopt our habits of eating, while there
is little increase among Italian,
Greeks, Dohemlans and others who
continue, in the second generation, to
live largely on their native simple
diet. The average foreigner naturally
thinks that the chief benefit of high
er wages Is not better schooling but
greater variety of food, including meat
every day, a thing possible only for
the rich in bis own country. Surely
good is not always unmixed with evil!
Apples contain but a small amount
of solid matter, chiefly sugar, but
their minerals, being perfectly asslmil.
able, and their malic acid being bene
ficial In DioBt cases, they are to be
regarded hs a most valuable food. In
a few peculiar conditions of the liver
and in excessive acidity they may be
injurious, but they nre especially
beneficial in torpidity of the liver and
excessive alkaline conditions (the op
posite of acid). The peach differs lit
tle from the apple, but it spoils easily
while the apple keeps good for
months. There is more or less danger
in spoiled or unripe fruit, and a bad
speck indicates that the entire fruit
is spoiling. Rolling of course coun
teracts fermentation, but if perfectly
sound an apple is best uncooked. Ap
ples are best eaten in the morning,
with other fruits, not with cereals,
vegetables or meat.
Peas, beans and lentils, contain
every element of food necessary for
vigorous physical and mental life. It
is no mere -coincidence that they are
used, commonly, as a staple in the
logging camp and have come to be as
sociated with the name of the Athens
of America. The bean is especially
rich in potash and phosphorus, two
leading brain foods, besides having a
larger percentage of iron than milk.
I have had an opportunity to watch
the physical and mental effects of an
exclusive 60-days' diet of beans, which
clearly proved them a most complete
and substantial diet for physical or
mental worker, even though they are
not included in the ideal dietary.
Bean starch Is much more easily
digestible than wheat starch and is
far less likely to cause such bowel
troubles as appendicitis. An exclusive
diet of beans, long continued is, how
ever, liable to cause rheumatism and
kidney troubles, owing to the excess
of albumen they contain. Peas and
lentils differ little from beans, the
former being the richest of this class
of foods. A few slices of toast or
acid fruits onlyjn the morning and
uncooked cabbage, lettuce, cucum
bers, etc., alternating with prunes,
dates or figs, for the evening meal,
would be an Ideal dietary for a labor
er eating beans with coarse bread for
the principal meal, at noon.
Bananas are the most nourishing of
fruits, except raisins and currants.
Properly ripened they are easily di
gested. But as we ordinarily find
them in our northern market they are
difficult of digestion and likely to
cause constipation. Banana flour Is
superior to superfine wheat flour and
could be produced more cheaply, if
transportation facilities were ade
quate. The ripened banana, with the
peanut, form a perfect ration, on
which the popu-at-on ot the world
could be fed by the product of Texas
and the other gulf states and the
tropics. Only a suitable method of
preserving the banana and an inex
pensive method of transportation be
ing necessary, to solve the food prob
lem. Bacon Is almost pure fat and is,
therefore, a good source of heat,
muscular energy and fat, but it is in
ferior to olive or peanut oil, which are
purer and more easily assimilated.
It should be eaten only in winter, in
cold climates, if at all.
Oysters (the edible portion, I mean,
for it is as necessary to clean oysters
as chicken or fish, are comparatively
nt-tritinna raw. but fried they are in-
'digestible.' They contain nothing that
cannot be obtained rrom vegeiaDie
fnrt eee or fish. Often they are
dangerous, causing serious bowel
ly apologize. Florence Howe Hall, In
Harper's Bazar.
Horned Toads.
. Horned toads are Blow of foot, and
the spiny horns which cover them
seem to be their only defense. Prof.
Cope gives an example of a- dead rat
tlesnake found with the horns of one
of these lizards which it had swal
lowed penetrating the neck ' through
the upper skin, one on each side of
the spite. John K. StreckeTj Jr., " re
cords another case where the capture
of a horned lizard was fatal to the ani
mal that had eaten it He says: "Some
years ago a friend brought me a'dead
hawk (Buteo lrneatus alien!) that he
bad found lying out on . tn- prairie
west of the city .(Waco). It' was great.
Iy emaciated and' there was considera
ble dry blood on - the feathers of the
throat and breast On skinning it I
found no, shot wounds, but when I
made a careful examination of the
carcass 1 found that it bad swallowed
two horned lizards, and that one 'of
the ocdpltal hornr of one of tfceso Lad
trouble and even typhoid and typhus
fever.
Eggs, eaten In their natural state or
only slightly cooked in water, not
fried in fat, are very nutritious and
easily digested. They are. however,
stimulating and undesirable unless
eaten sparingly. A whipped egg with
swleback is a suitable meal for an In
valid; but the curative use of foods
will be dealt with In subsequent arti
cles. Figs, dates and prunes are the most
substantial of the fruits, next to the
bnnana. Either of these, or all, makes
a suitable evening meal. The chief
objection to them Is, they are very
liable to be spoiled, by fermentation
and worms. Prunes can be obtained
in cans free from contamination or
the objectionable chemicals used In
the dried fruit, and as they, are chiefly
sugar the injury done by cooking is
immaterial, as compared with the dan
ger In fermentation in the spoiled fruits
Cocoa is less objectionable than tea
or coffee, being only slightly stimulat
ing. It contains considerable fat,
more than chocolate. Cereal coffee is
harmless.
Grapes are, next to the apple, for
all general purposes, the best fruit.
Thero should be a grape arbor in
every garden. Unfermented grape
Juice is a delicious and highly-nutritious
drink, of which we shall have
more to say in treating of the cura
tive values of foods.
Pine apple Is a true fruit medicine,
very valuable in some digestive disor
ders. Potatoes are chiefly water and
starch, but are rich In the mineral
elements of food. They are best
baked slowly, at a low temperature;
they should not be fried in fat or
boiled slowly. If they must be boiled,
they should be dropped in boiling wa
ter and when cooked allowed to dry on
a hot fire after having the water
drained off.
Cheese, if fresh, Is a rich proteid
food, and an aid to digestion, but old
cheese is dangerous and it should not
be tasted. Cheese, like milk, is ex
tremely incompatible with the small
fruits, blackberries, strawberries, rasp
berries, etc., which need not be
eaten at all, except alone, in the
morning, freBh, in summer. It is also
incompatible with nuts. Full cream
cheese, fresh, would make a better
combination with beans than pork.
With bread it is especially compatible.
Brain work requires more fresh,
easily assimilated protelds than man
ual labor, but in either case the less
Craft made upon the stomach for di
gestion the more vitality will be left
for work, of whatever kind. This Is
tho nhvsioloKical Bide of the economy
of eating, not forgetting the relative
digestibility of foods and the great
difficulty of excreting the waste of
albuminous foods as compared with
sugars, starches and fats.
Weston's recent great walking feat,
known to every newspaper reader, is
a good example of the requirements
of physical endurance. Mr. Weston's
diet was far from Ideal, but the one
great lesson, constantly taught was,
that if a man is to do his best' work
ho must eat only enough to furnish
heat, energy and bodily waste. If he
is to win in a contest, he must eat
protelds sparingly and lose in weight
Digestion and elimination are work,
of the severest kind, and the more
ho saves in that department, the more
he will have to spend in muscular and
mental work.
A few months ago I published in
one of the medical Journals the re
sult of some experiments made in "A
Tramp's Diet," showing that the best
walking was done when only enough
food was taken to prevent actual
hunger and that a gradual elimination
of meat was found to steadily increase
the mileage walked. This corresponds
exactly with the results of the endur
ance tests made by Profs. Chittenden
and FlBber of Tale and with all the
results in the great walking contests
in Germany, England and America.
No fallacy in regard to diet Is more
erroneous or more unfortunate than
the common argument that the work-
penetrated the bird's
est and Stream.
Effect of Rain on Monkeys.
Rain makes monkeys glum. They
are apt from instinct, when they see
it through the window, to clasp their
hands above their heads and sit so for
hours. That attitude, you know,
makes a kind of 'shelter. It is the
primitive umbrella. ' So, ' when -It
rained, the naked primitive man ana1
woman sat gloomily in the primeval
swamps of giant ferns.
' Similarity' of Lead and Stesl.
Lead when reduced to a very low
temperature in liquid air, is said to act
much as steel at ordinary tempera
tures. It will serve as a helical spring,
for example. JuBt a Iron Is soft iand
inelasticat a high, red color, so Jead
la dulland soft at ordinary tempera
tures, for. it Js then jrtready well on
its way to be melted. '
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Wanted to Spare It Pain.. .
Dorothy had been staying with her
grandfather, and heard : ranch talk
chout. It being kinder- to. 4hoot t.very
old carriagaJiorsa that "was long past
lni man needs meat - The contrary Is
true. Dr. Wiley of our federal bu
reau of chemistry, an acknowledged
authority on food, says: "A Japan
ese coolie will carry you around town
all day on a pound of rice; you can
not do tbaton a pound of meat." Mr.
William Jennings Bryan says that the
Japanese 'rlsklshaw man will wheel
a man 75 miles In a day; and his
food Is rice (unmllled, of course, cor
responding to our whole wheat), and
possibly beans and fish. The Bedouin
Arab, who will run all day by the
side of a magnificent Arab horse,
lives on dates and figs, never Nesting
meat
I have nothing to say of the ethical
Objections to meat-eating. I merely
wIbIi In dealing with the economic
side of food, to Impress, especially
upon the working man, that the first
step to economy In eating is to omit
meat and fine white bread from the
diet The man who eats rye or whole
wheat and a few nuts, needs no meat,
no eggs, nor milk, though he will do
well to drink a glass of buttermilk
dally.
Sugar Is the cheapest food for one
doing heavy physical work, because
It furnishes energy directly with little
waste. Its best source Is prunes, figs
or dates.
A spoonful or two of olive or pea
nut oil should be taken dally. Butter
Is an expensive food compared with
vegetable oils
What the physical worker needs
most Is, just like the engine, ready,
fuel and water. Its cheapest sourcs
is sugar and fat, rather than wheat,
starch and meat, though rye Is easily
converted Into glucose or cereal
sugar. A tablespoonful or more of
peanut oil may be taken with prunes,
or separately. Fnt interferes with the
digestion of protelds in the stomach
but not with sugar. A warm drink
of weak cocoa or substitute coffee
may follow a fruit meal, facilitating
the passage to- the intestine where
such food Is digested. The more
liquid the sooner the stomach empties.
The most economical of foods is
sugar, and yet much harm Is done by
cane sugar, as It Is eaten in candies,
especially by young women who have
little exercise, and in tea and coffee
by men and women of sedentary oc
cupation. The evil effects of cane
sugar, Including ordinary candles as
compared with the natural sugar
foods, dates, figs, prunes, currants
and raisins (and perfectly ripe banan
as), might be compared to the dif
ference between fine white and
coarse bread.
Experiments made with men on a
march showed that a quarter to three
quarters of a pound dally of cane
sugar was utilized readily and caused
no distress, but It is a well-known
fact that such an amount of sugar
eaten In the way It is ordinarily taken
by one not making the fullest use of
lungs and muscles, requiring the con
sumption of a large amount of avail
able carbon that sugar not quickly
burned in the system for heat and
energy causes catarrh of the stomach
and bowels, unfitting them for natural
digestion and at the same time over
loading the liver and straining the
kidneys. Similar results follow the
excessive use of starch foods, espe
cially in concentrated form.
As we have already seen, the es
sential food is albumen, a definite
amount of which is necessary, under
all circumstances, to support life, ai
well as to build new tissue in the
growing child. But carbon, as sugar,
starch or fat. can be much more quick
ly utilized for maintaining heat and
energy. If a sufficient amount of car
bon in these forms is not furnished,
heat and energy will be sustained by
the consumption of albumen, and ai
the waste products from the consump
tion of albumen, require many times
more energy for elimination from the
system through the kidneys, the con
sumption of more albumen than is
necessary, is a serious error In vital
economy. Rheumatism, Bright's dis
ease, and other diseases result from
the Inability of the system to eliminate
the excessive waste of albuminous
foods.
work than to sell it. When she went
home one day she heard her parents
talking of selling their present motor
car and buying a new one. "Oh,
mammle." she exclaimed, "do have
it shot, instead!" Home Chat K-
Sat on the Salmon.
Mr. and Mrs. Gross had a funny ex
perience with an eight-pound salmon
at Green lake recently. After being
hooked the salmon jumped right into
the arms of Mrs. Gross and slid
through to the. bottom of the ooat
Mrs. GroBS promptly sat on the fish
and made good Its capture. Montreal
Herald.
. How He Does It - "
Notice the man of whom it la gen
erally said: "He Is successful; he ft
getting along.? Notice that he attends
to his work; he. Is polite; he doesn't
drink; he is honest." pays -his
debts..- No man ever succeeded with
out these qualities, Atchison (K-)
Clot. , " ' . ; ' . .
: Large Returns from Income Tax.- ,
- The revenues from the Prussian In
come tax In 1907 were 159,500,000. :
fe-m to:,'ic no
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