The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-04-22
The Bread We Enf.

ton Journal Of Chemistry upon "Wheat
Flour as Nerve Food" which has been
supplemented by an important lecture by
the author Or. Cutler, Of Massachusetts,
upon the general subject, with special
view to answering the question, ais iionF
(white) our proper food ?" DR.. Cutler
has for long time been engaged in ex.
tended researches upon the "eaect Of
aour.eating upon the human race.
Among the points made in his lecture "a
that -four il the only impoverished lood
used by mankind-impoverished by the
withdrawal Of the documentary portion
Of The wheat, leaving the internal starchy
or white portion. Flour is mostly
St,rcb az per cent. The human
L"JS contains at least twelve ele-
r,":t. besides those ofstarch. How then,
!, Il asked, can flour be nutritious with
,bout three elements. when It should con-
tain jfteen elements in order to properly
nourish and sustain the human body ?
Flour has less gluten than wheat. Gluten
Is the albuminoid principle correspond
Inc 10 the albumen, fbrin and gelatine
in the human body. 1t Is related in
Kirke & Pagel's "Physiology" that dogs
fed by Magendle on flour bread died in
forty days; other dogs fed on bread from
whole wheat meal or -four Aourished and
throve. The three.fourths impoverish.
ment Of the mineral Ingredients proved
fatal to the first. The question is ask
ed why should not mankind suffer
in the same manner from living
on impoverished food? The fact that
wheat as an article Of food, combined
with fresh outdoor life, is capable OF
producing and sustaining the highest
typc OF physical manhood the world ever
saw, is illustrated by the history Of the
Roman Empire in the time Of Julius
Cesar, which was built up and main:
tanned by soldiers whose main article OF
food was wheat. DR.. Cutler also holds
that it is probable that the present preya-
lence OF decaying teeth and premature
grayness or badness are partly due to
the exclusive and universal use OF white
-four. Hair contains ten per cent OF sui
phuroid, but there is no sulphur or sui
phuric acid in -four. A food, 10 be food,
must contain in proper quantities all the
ingredients found in the tissues, hair,
teeth, &c. In addition to this, white
-four 70: half a century has been regarded
as one cause Of constipation. 1thas been
proved that whole wheat meal regulates
the bowels by giving the system nerve
food to "run," so 10 speak, the diges-
tive functions. While wheat contains,
in normal proportions, every ele-
ment which belongs to the tissues
and organs, white flour made from wheat
is substance weakened, deteriorated and
Impoverished, and history shows that
people eating it are more subject 10 us
sue.wasting disease Consumption, d, }
than every before. "Why then" It is
asked, "not use the whole OF the original
wheat, ground or reduced to uniform
condition, without loss or injury to the
food elements, with its native normal bal
ance and quality Of mineral ingredients
in soluble and assimilable form, as Lie.
big and others advocate; and such as II
demonstrated undeniably and incontro-
verbally, by facts Of history, to be capa::
BILE OF producing the highest type OF
physical manhood the world ever saw:
why raise a pale, feeble, nervous and
small sized race OF people upon -four be-
cause -four bread looks white
and light, and therefore is considered
nice ~ But this attractive white.
ness comes from starch, and the
whittier the bread the more starch it con.
tains, and, OF course, the less nutrition.
The whitencss OF floor is regarded by DR..
Cutler "a an outward sign Of the starva-
ton and death within. "What is want
ed, says an intelligent writer on this sob
iect, as wholesome, healthtul, nourish-
Ing wheat food-a whole wheat flour in
the fullest and broadcast sense OF the term.
It should be made from the choicest,
rlpest wheat, wholly (bran, or cortical
portion, and all) reduced to uniform
tineness Of quality, and we'll put up for
family use; and whoever will give his
earnest and honest efforts TO furnishing
such -four, and will keep its manutac-
ture up to this high standard all the time,
will confer lasting benefit upon his race
and generation, and find renumerative
market for all he can produce"