The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-02-17


preached on carbonaceous or phosphate diet;
| and the estimate OF the old divine, 'if the
| number of tons Of beans and pork preached
to every Sunday while the owners were asleep
| might be Offset by an estimate of the number
| OF congregations, not only in New England put
! in Old England, and all the rest of the fat and
starch-eating world, who are put asleep by ser
mons made from SIMPLIFYING principles extract,
| ed from fat pork, fat beef and superfne flour.
1he nitrates and phosphatcs of all meats
and vegetables are partly soluble and partly
water. ali lose much that is important, espe-
| cialIy to the thnking man. In cold water, al-
bumen is dissolved or lost, but lii not water
the albumen is coagulated, and mostly re-
soluble phosphates are lost. Neither fish. nor
meats nor veg 2etables should, therefore. ever
be picked in brine, nor should they be boiled
unless Ill q little water, as ia the admirable ar
rangement Of Zimmerman or Durclllee, where
all the soluble materials, as well as oil the
flavor, are retained in the water that is neces-
| sary to keep up the steam, and being used as
gravy or soup, oil the clements are saved as
nature intended.
In roasting, or broiling, or, indeed, in any
manner OF cooking, care must be taken not to
burn up or otherwise destroy or lose any of
the juices OF either vegetable or animal food;
especially is this important for thinking men,
and for those whose digestion is full-the
power Of the stomach, as we'll as tho power Of
the brain, being dependent on soluble phos-
phorus. And especially is thu power of the
stomach dependent on the flavor Of tho food
Let any one try the experiment of cooking
meats fish, potatoes, carrots turnips, or any
in which the Il ,vor and all the steam are dis
titled back and saved, and compare the taste
Of these with that of the same food cooked so
that all these elements are lost, and he will be
digestibility, and mental and physical energy
impaired by it.
MUSCLE WORKERS..
From the chapter on Food for Laboring
Men," we make some valuable solections also.
The kinds Of food most wanted, because eaten
when not wanted, by the system. are the most
expensive. The article most used when not
wanted is supei 1ue flour, out OF which has
been bolted large, portion OF its nitrates snd
phosphates. This beng used with butter and
sugar furnishes very little but heating mate
rial. The next article on which most money is
expended and wasted, because most used
with other articles containing enough of car
bonaceous elements, is butter, which con-
tains not o particle Of strength or lite-giving
material, and therefore useless except with
food deficient in carbon. And another arti-
Gle most extensively used and for the same
reason wasted, is sugar, which though use
ful with too acid fruits, and Us part OF a
meal in which is too large q proportion of
nitrogenous food, is worse than useless in con
tween meals, and when food ls not wanted as
it not only adds to the superhuous heat, but
causes fermentation in the stomach and bow
els, and causes, or tends to cause, fatuence,
conc, dyspepsia. ana tn0 JnOuSanO ana one
troubles OF the digestive organs, which we are
apt to impute to green vegetables and fruit,
when the fact is, these extra carbonaceous sub
stances, in their passage out of the system,
embarrass the digestion Of natural food, and
cause it to give us these troubles; and this is
proved by the fact that those who avoid these
expensive and useless articles may cat as much
as they choose Of green vegetables and fruits,
and they give them no hatulence, produce no
irritation.
Our forefathers, who lived on boans, peas
unbolted grains, and the meats, vegetables,
and fruits as they came from their fields and
gardens, cooked in the simplest manner, best
prepare them for digestion, were not troubled
with tlatulence, collie, or indigestion. And our
fOremothers were not the pale-faced, fabby
musced, toothless, chloretc, consumptive,
and sentimental race, as are their degenerate
daughters Of the present generation. Even
our farIaers and their wives and daughters
have become terribly deGenerated. Instead of
the robust and healthy men, and the full
cheSted, healthy, rOsy-cheeked, beautiful wO-
men Of former generations, we'see q people
almost as feeble and sickly as the city people.
And the reason is apparent. The outer crust
tains the nitrogen. phosphorus, and iron, on
which strength and energy, mental and physi-
Cal, and beauty of complexion depend, is given
to the cattle and the pigs, while they take
themselves, Instead, the butter, fine -four and
sugar. which contains only the heating and
disease-producing carbonates.
The robust Irishman aud Scotchman, also,
who comes here with strong, energetic mus
cles. and sound teeth, from their oatmeal,
wheat aud barley cakes, with their potatoes,
butter milk and cheese, soon fall into our
starch and grease-eating habits, and become,
puny and toothlees az l'urc-blooded Yankees.
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