Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-04-16
Food for Working People.

! THE kinds of food most wasted, because
eaten when not wanted by the system, are
the most expensive. The article most
used when not wanted, is superline flour,
out of which has been bolted its nitrates
and phosphates. This being used with
butter and sugar, furnishes very little but
heating material. The next article on
(which most money is expended and vast.
led, because most used with other articles
containing carbonaceous elements, is but
| ter, which contains not particle of
strength orlifs. giving material, and there,
| fore useless except with food deficient in
carbon. r.l 1H r.
And another article most extensively
used, and for the same reason wasted, is
sugar, which, though useful with too acid
fruits, and as part of a meal in which is
too large proportion of nitrogenous food,
is worse than useless in confectionery,
cakes, ETC., especially if eaten be-
tween meals, and when food is not
wanted, as it not only adds to the super
tluous heat, but causes fermentation in the
stomach and bowels, and causes, or tends
to cause, ilatulence, collie, dyspepsia and a
thousand and one troubles of he digestive
organs, which VIC are apt to impute to
green vegetables and fruit, when the fact
is, these extra carbonace0s substances,
in their passage out of the system, embar-
rass the digestion of natural food, aud
causes 1t to give us these troubles; and
this is proved by the fact that those
who avoid these expensive and useless
articles may eat as much as they
choose Of green vegetables and fruits, and
they give them no hatulence, produce no
irritation. aI.5,-..ir..
Our Puritan forefathers, who lived on
beans, pears, unbolted grains, and the
meats vegetables and fruits as they came
from their fields and gardens, cooked in
the simplest manner, best calculated to
develop their natural flavor, and prepare
them for digestion, were not troubled with
flatulence, collie, or indigestion And our
foremothers were not the pale-fsced, fab
by-muscled, toothless, chloretic Consump-
tive and sentimental race, as are the degen-
crate daughters of the present generation.
Even our farmers and their wives and
daughters have become terribly degener-
ated. Instead of the robust and healthy
men, and the full chested, healthy, rosy
checked, beautiful women of former gen
erations, we see people almost as feeble
and sickly as the city people And the
reason is apparent The outer crust of
the wheat, aud the butter milk, which con-
tains the nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron,
on which strength and energy, mental and
physical, and beauty of complexion de-
pend, is given to the cattle and the pigs,
while they take themselves, instead, the
butter fine flour and sugar, which contain
only the heating and disease producing
| carbonates.
The robust Irishmen and Scotchmen,
also, who come here with strong energetic
muscles and sound teeth, from their oat-
meal, wheat and barley cakes, with their
potatoes, buttermilk and cheese, soon fall
into our starch and grease eating habits,
and become, or at least their children be-
come, as pale, puny and toothless as pure
blooded Yankees. - Exchange. s t.s.. ..