The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-03-11
Brain and MuscIe-Tho food for Each.

TO pc SICK" has some ROOu suggestions
about food. We quote portion of
what he says in regard to
brain WORKERS.
1t has been proved by analysis that
the more active the brain the moro
phosphorus is used up and thrown off
by the system. clergymen using up
more on Sundays, and lawyers on court
days, than at any other times, and yei
our professional men have lived as 9TH
er men live-eating what has come be-
fore them without considering whether
the elements they take are adapted to
develop stupidity or mental Vigor; eat
ing, perchance, such supplying articles
as ham or fat pork, and white bread
and butter, while making or preaching
a sermon, and such phosphate food as
trout and other fish, with unbolted
bread, vegetables and fruit, when idle
or rusticating. But little observation
would show vast difference IN the
quality of sermons whether maue or
preached on the carobnaceous or phos-
phatic diet: and the estimate OF the ola
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 Eng
land, but in Old England, and all the
rest of the fat and starch. eating world,
who are put asleep by sermons made
from simplifying principles extracted
from fat pork, fat "a and Superhne
flour"
The nitrates and phosphates of all
meats and vegetables are partly soluble
and partly insoluble; and, therefore,
in soaking in cold water, all lose much
that is important, especially to the
thinking man. In cold water, albumen
is dissolved or lost, but in hot water the
albumen is coagulated, and mostly re-
tanned but in hot water as we'll as cold,
the soluble phosphates are lost. Neith-
er fish, nor meats, nor vegetables
should, therefore, ever be picked in
brine, nor should they be boiled, unless
in little water, as in the admirable ar
rangement of Zimmerman or Durklee,
where all the soluble materials, as well
as all the flavor, are retained in the
water that is necessary to keep up the
steam, and being used as a gravy or
soup, all the elements are saved, as ma
ture intended.
In roasting, or broiling, or, indeed, in
any manner of cooking, care must be
taken not to burn up, or otherwise des-
troy or lose any of the juices of either
vegetables 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 the
power of the brain, being dependent on
soluabie phosphorus. And especially
is the power of the stomach dependent
on the flavor of the food. Let any one
try the experiment OF cooking meats.
fish, potatoes, carrots, turnips, or any
other food-animal or Vegetable-tn a
steamer in which the flavor and all the
steam are distilled 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 as
tonished at the difference in flavor,
digestibility, and mental and physical
energy impaired by 1t.
MUSCLE WORKERS.
From the chapter on "Food for la
boring Men," we make some valuable
selections also. The kinds of food most
wanted, because eaten when not want
ed by the system, are the most expen-
sive. The article most used when not
wanted, is superhne flour, out of which
has been bolted large portion OF its
nitrates and phosphates. This being
used with butter and sugar, furnishes
very little but heating material. The
next article on which money IS eX-
pended and wasted, because most used
with other articles containing enough
which contains not particle OF strength
or life giving material, and therefore
useless except with food deficient in car
bon. And another article most extensive
ly used and for the same reason wasted.
is sugar, which though useful with too
acid fruits, and as part OF meal in
which is too large proportion of nj
trOgeniOus food, is worse than useless
in confectionery. cakes, &c, especially
if eaten between meals, and when food
| is not wanted, as it not only adds to the
super fluous heat, but causes fermenta-
ton in the stomach and bowels, and
causes or tends to cause, tiatulence,
collie, dyspepsia, and the thousand and
one troubles of the digestive organs,
which we are apt to impute to green
vegetables and fruit, when the fact is,
these extra carbonacOus substances,
in their passage out of the system, en-
barrass the digestion OF natural food,
and 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 flatulence, produce
no irritation.
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 tlatulence, collie,
or indigestion. And our foremothers
were not the pale-faced, tlabby-muscled,
tOothless, chloretic, consumption, and
sentimental race, as are their degener-
ate daughters of the present generation.
Even our farmers and their wives and
daughter have become terribly de-
generated. Instead of the robust
and healthy men, and the full-chest-
ed, healthy rosy checked, beautiful
women of former generations, we
we see people almost as feeble and
sickly as the city people. And the
the reason is apparent. The outer crust
OF the wheat, and the buttermilk, which
contains the nitrogen, phosphorus, and
iron, on which strength and energy,
mental and physical, and beauty of
complexion depend, is given to the cat
tie and the pigs, while they take them
selves, instead, the butter, fine flour
and sugar, which contain only the heat
ing and disease producing carbonates.
The robust Irishmen and Scotchmen,
also, who come here with strong, ener-
getic muscles, and sound teeth, from
their oatmeal, 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 become, as pale,
puny and toothless as pure-bloOded
Yankees.
The Orphans Home at Rochester, Pa,
To the Editor of the Intelligencel: