Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-08-28
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Wufrg AND Blows BHBAp.-5eyeral
yenrs ago, We threw out the stirmise that
the separation Of the white from the brown
pafts If wheat grain was likely to be barie.
G,I to health. We proceeded upon %theore.
teal grounds, believing that Pfovidsnee
mist have contemplated ctr Using tha Ell.
tire grain, and not b portion selected by
means Of Il nicely arranged machinery.
| II struck us forcibiy that to 30 OH for d long
course Of years, thus using 1t kind OF food
different from what nature designed, could
moi FIJI to be attended with bad CONSEQUENT.
ees. We have since learned that our
views have sone recognized support IN
science. The following paragraph from II
recent ~panphiet with Ill once serve to keep
the subject alive In the minds of our rea.
ders, and explain the actual grounds on
which the separation Of -four Is detrimental.
"The general bbIfef," says the writer, sis
that bread made with the finest flour Is the
best, and that wilderness IL thg.proof Of it,
! humility but both these opinions are poprl.
Iar errors. The Wilderness may 10 an.
generally is communicated by alum, TO the
injury Of the consumer md II IL known ~
nten Of science that The bread Of unreiined
flour will sustain life, while that made with
/ the refined viii not Keep mar on brown
J bread and water, and he viii live and ENJOY
. good health give him white bread ant
!, water only, and he will sitken and die
2 Tie meal Of which the first is made con
tains nj! the ingredients necessary to tht
conposition Of no1ril hnient 70 The vdFiott
sGuctures composing our bodies. Some q
these ingredients are removed by the mile
Y, in his efforts to please The public 20 thu
= fine -four, instead Of being better than fnea
L. Is the least n0uIishinE and to make th
v case worse, it II MISC the most difficult
" DIGESTION. The loss IT,, therefore, III d
l. respects q waste and il seems desifabI
:. that the admirers Of white bread (bttt espt
III cially the poorJ should be acquainted vii
u these truths, and brought tofnqu1rc whetht
~ they'd not purchase ut too dear Il rate Il
r.. privtleee-of ihdbIging in the use OF it. III
unvytge preference given so universally
white bread leads to the perniciovs pfacti
&c r,ix;uo alum with the -four, and III
again to all sorts Of authorizations and il
ow positions for it enables bakers, who we
ID, 80 disposed, by adding more and more
I 1" Inn, to make bread made FROM the -four
ind an inferior grain look like the best or me
costly, and to dispose Of it accordingly /;
A., md once d~efrauding the purchaser, and lamp
les, ing with his health. Among the matt
aas removed by the miller are the large sail
substances, which arc Indispensable TO
1ot- growth Of the bones and teeth, and are
a a,sS auircd, although in o less degree, for da
repair. Brown bread should erefore
nm, eiveu to nurses and to lhe yJting or
, saI' growing, and should be preferred by Ill
ling whatever age, whose ZONES show 9 tend
cg 10 bend or who have weak teeth. !
ex- believed that brown bread will gener'
be found the best by all persons hav
sluggish bowels and stomachs, equal
the digestion oitbe bran. But with g
il yin Disagree for il u too exciting
& de irritable bowels, and Is dissolved with
in Gcuty in ON ~stolnaehs. When this !
! De pens, the bran should be removed 81
rom wholly or ID part and by such means,
,,c,. bread MY be adarted, with The grea
ease. 10 al habits and all constitutions
dams Mr.. Smith, il his late remarkable :
Get On Trusts and farinaeea q the food Of
!. = gives some illustrations Of this doet'
son 4BuIE,p be says, i nearly - neees
d 10 to the articles q diet as the nutrient
'nP- cfole. They should be 50 managed
: one should be in proportion to the 2
80 ~ :