Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-08-17
WHAT FOOD TO EAT.

discusses. Taking q middle ground be-
tween the advocates of a large use Of
animal food on the one side, and the
v~egetariaus on the other, he shows that
while we may advantageously enjoy a
mixed diet, its superiority is not suti-
GENTLY shown over a vegetable one.
well-selected vegetable diet is adequate
to the support Of average health and
strength and intellectual power. Both
vegetable and animal food have been
proved by chemists to contain the same
nourishing principles. Referring to the
cattle plague, the author expresses a
hope that as the potato disease led the
people of Ireland to use a better and
more mixed dietary, so this cattle plague
may induce the English to alter their
views relative to the value Of meat.
Without our having had the same COM
pulsory lesson in this country, there is
no doubt but that our people might
make useful application to themselves
of DR.. Ireland's opinion respecting the
benefit of diminished supply of meat
and the substitution of a well-chosen
vegetable diet. This last not being so
tempting, eve should get rid Of much
Of the over-eating in which many peo-
pie indulge, and a great deal of money
would be saved which might be more
usefully spent in other things"
On the advantages Of variety IN diet
the author offers sound remarks, as
when he tells Us how clever Nature is,
how suitable are her rules, and how
multifarious her results! She takes a
few elements, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen,
hydrogen and sulphur, combines them
together under the influence Of sunlight,
aud produces a few compounds 6t to be
assimilated by ANIMALS in their W ma
ture. These alimeutary substances APP
proach one another very nearly in chem
ical composition, yet they are often
widely different in feature and appear
auce. She aavors them in an immense
number Of ways with aromas and essen
ces. This diversity of taste is not only
pleasing to the palate, but useful to the
1t has been proved by the sta
of twenty hospitals that when
one mouotonous diet rule is maintained,
the food becomes insipid and at last
to the taste, and thus the
health Of the inmates is always materi-
ally improved By a change of dishes.
Mans constitution demands variety, and
this variety nature has beautifully af-
forded.
The unhealthy practice among the
rich classes in England Of feeding their
children TOO much on animal food pre-
walls in our own country among all
classes. It is true that the amount OF
aesh-forming nutriment in beef is great
er than in bread but the amount Of
respiratory food thus furnished is TOO
low, and the lungs are unable to throw
of, in breathing, the effete and delete
rious matters from the blood, as they
would under a vegetable diet. Without
fresh vegetables we should Don die OF
scurvy, and without a certain bulk &c
our own food we should soon find that
i, did not agree with US. OF all vegeta-
bles, those of the leguminous tribe,
such as beans and peas, possess the
highest proportion of fesh-forming priu-
ciples. Ia this list DR.. Ireland, speak
ing from observation when serving in
India, ranks the Indian dial as foremost.
It has the advantage over peas and
beans that it is palatable. 1t requires
to be ground aud allowed to simmer,
butter being added it is then well pep
pered and eaten mixed with boiled rice.
This is what in India is called kitch-
cry" than which no substance is more
capable Of supplying the want Of fresh
meat. A Hindoo has been heard to say,
90 Dial is my flesh"