Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-12-14
MIS- C L L L A N Y i.
Quantity OF Nutriment I'm Different

articles.
That one article OF fJod contains more |
nutritious matter than another is undeni-
ably true. That gross ignorance prevails
on this subject generally among the peo-
pie is untquivocal. The standard by |
which they Judge relative to the quantity |
OF nutritious matter different arllcles OF
food contain is, what is the most palateable. |
or what they imagine most nourishing.-l
You talk 10 the laboring class OF citizens
in reference TO the Efficiency and suitable. |
ness ola purely vegetable diet, they will
reply, that vegetable diet may prove well
enough for persons OF sedentary habits and
not in the habit oil manual labor; bat they
cannot endure the ba.dships OF physical
labor and digging in earth without such
" hearty f,od' as pork, beef, &c. Thus
they imagine that there is nothing more
nourishing than fesh-meat, and that veget
able food is the most innulritious Of ALL
How erroneous this decision, Yet with this
fundamental error in physiological science
thousands are dashing onward through
life to The grave, anon with excited nerves,
and then with PROSTATE constitutions. Let
Us examine this subject according to the
best chemical development. Now the
best chemists declare, that the following
standard of nutritious matter, contained in
different articles OF food, to be correct and
such as may be relied upon. The average
quantity OF nutritious matter in all kinds
of hesh-mcat is about lhirty-five pounds
to one hundred. In one hundred weight
of hesh-meat there is about lhifty-6ve
pounds of nutritious matter. Therefore
by devouring one hundred weight OF flesh,
you receive thirty five pounds ofnutritious
food, the rest is all gross and innutritious
matter. Now look al the articles OF
vegetable diet, such as rice. wheat, lentiles.
peas, beans, &c. The average quantity
of nutritious matter in these is from eighty
to ninety-five per cent Therefore the
reader will see that either rice, beans OF
bread contain nearly three times as much
nutritious matter as pork, beef or any 9TH
kind of flesh-meat. Even potatoes contain
about twenty-five per cert. of nutritive
matter, so that three pounds OF potatoes
contain more nourishment thai Two pounds
Of pork. Thus we discover that the om-
niverous man with proud reliance on the
correctness Of his system Of living and his
derIsion at purs vegetable diet, as lily
suited to the hard laboring class of com
munily for its inuutritious matter, can de-
rive but about one third the amount Of
nutriment from his pork, beef, mutton,
venison, &C., that the frugivorous man &C.
rives from his peas, beans, rice, wheat, &c.
Even that person who lives on vegetable
die: derives nearly as much Eourishmen,
from potatoes per pound as he who lives
upon his staff Of life,' viz: pork, beef
SC. How science conflicts with The alb.
surd notions and depraved customs Of the
human family What is esteemed wise,
great and correct by The wisdom OF the
world. is consummate folly and perfectly
) ridiculous oft in the clear light and sacred
presence ofuDperverted science.
1t appears 10 Us from sacred and pro
fame history, that farinaceous and vegeta bic
food constituted the staff OF life to larg
er part OF The human family in all the pr,m
tive ages of the world and al those time:
too, when the fallen sons and daughters o
, Adam lived to good old age. Admitting
this as fIct, We ask what has crealed &
E hospital of this lower world, and raging
diseases to scourge the generations of mer
: in the bloom Of life from the Stage of ac
! lions! Has the Almighty fixed the law.
. of human existence more frail aud brief a.
The world rolls onward towards its miIlen
ial state, than they were before and afe
e the flood II hs has, we ask the dispu,
: ant where and when this knowledge ha.
l been revealed 10 man2 Produce you
e proof and thus saith the Lord Mat
$ Ter Of fact is no proof in this case. for, 70
5 aught we know, it may be the result of
! perversion of nature by vicious living
i Lutheran Herald.
THINGS THAT HAVE SEEM hav
y seen ftrmer build house so large an,
E fine, that the sheriff turned him out q
\ doors.
!, have seen q young man sell goo
Il farm. turn merchant, break, and die in al
!. insane hospital.
n have seen a farmer travel about $
much, that there vas nothing at hon
/ worth looking after.
IL | have seen rich mans son begi
Is where bis falhsr left off wealthy; an
}. end where his father began-pennyless.
l. have seen a wofzhy farmers son i'd
At away years Of the prime ef life in 'dssipa
J. lion, and end his career In a poorhoase,