The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-03-12
INDIANAPOLIS WEDNESDAY MORNING. H. 1879


THE BEST OF nkAArM.
How TO Attain IL and How 20 Preserve
It-Exercise Better than ali the Medi-
cine I'm the World-What the Body Re
should be Prepared.
brooklyn Eagle.l
The work done by the body, according to
scientific definition. can be divided into
three classes: internal work, such as nervous
energy required for regulating the processes
of the body, intellectual requirements and
the force needed for digestion, and so forth;
caloritic work. for the reduction of heat to
maintain the animal temperature; me-
chanical or muscular work. The amount OF
force expended on each OF these
departments varies with the in
| dividual, but the force is the
| same. From numerous calculations
it is observed that the average amount of
force daily expended by an adult weighing
$50 pounds is equivalent to lifting 3, 400 tons
| one foot. This is divided thus: Internal
| work, 800 tons; calorific work, $50; me-
| chauical work, 800. So that the amount of
| work a man can do day is about equivalent
to lifting 300 tons one foot. Eight hours
| pile e-driving is equivalent to 212 tons; turn
| ing winch to 3I4 tons; walking mile on
| the level, unloaded, IL 81 tons; carrying a
weight OF GO pounds one mile, on level,
1
| can do is to work at manual labor in the
| open air, so long IS he keeps within the ex-
| pendture of sbout 300 tons of force. Max
| ing allowances for the force expended in
various ways by q human being in ordinary
| business, therefore he ought to take walk
of nine miles to make up the amount of
exercise necessary to keep his body in good
order.
| EVERY ACTION OF THE BODY
is attended with chemical changes in the
composition of its tissues. by which force is
| released for thinking, and other nervous
| exercises for maintaing the temperature of
| the body, or for enduring it with activity.
The force must be supplied as fast as it is
expended, and 1t is supplied in latent form
by the food we eat, and the oxygen that
every respiration takes into the lungs. The
| food we eat consists of carbon, hydrogen
and nitrogen, from all which a certain
amount OF oxygen has been taken as they
passed through vegetable form Their
latent heat, derived from the sun, is re-
stored again when the carbon is burned in
oxygen, and that is precisely what is effect
ed when we breathe, taking in oxygen to
burn up the carbon and sustain animal heat.
| Knowing precisely in what directions
force is expended. and also tho proportions
in which they are directed, we should, OF
| course, endeayor to conform our diet to our
necessities, that there will be no lack oi
force in any direction. By far the greater
/ part oil the 1Orce eupplleQ ID IOr genefatlne
heat, leaving a smaller amount to be divided
between the recuperation of nervous and
muscular energy. Professor Frankland, by
a series OF patient experiments, has taker
the different elements OF our food and com
!. bined them SO as to yield the requisite pro
portions of serviceable force. He has found
that 1,S00 grains OF dry albumen, 1.35'
grains of fat and 4 900 grains OF starch. addeG
. together, yield an aggregate of J, $40 foo
tons, or almost the identical amount of fore
exerted by the average adult who weigh
$50 pounds, namely 3, 400 foot tons.
WHEN MAN rs IN TRAINING,
, he is merely keeping his body IN the bes
, possible condition, and the scientific trainer
) | of to-day have gone back to the very system
indulged in by the Greeks when preparin
| for the Olympic games. Twenty-Five year
; ago the trainer VINO insisted upon dieting
subject with large quantities of fatty matte
| would have been considered insane. Strane
, | ely enough, the experiments OF Dr.. Frank
. land and others, including so eminent
| physicist as Professor Huxley, pronounce il
favor of eating a considerable allowance Q
! fatty matter, which the Osymphian contest
| ants took in the form of roast pork. tn
| tables laid down for men in trainin
B | nowadays, therefore, abandon the largel
albuminous diet, and accept a ia
Z | different one. In these table W
e find some curious corrections OF old notions
For instance, an ounce of lean beef, contain
y ing ten grams of nitrogen and "a OF carbon
: furnishes So foot tons OF energy; an ounce {
oatmeal supplies 152 foot tons; an ounce {
| butter supplies 80 foot tons, and an ounce {
dried bacon the largest amount of all-29
foot tons; an ounce of poultry furnishes bu
L 81, and an ounce of sugar 2f5' foot tons.
diet of one pound of meat, a pound and
!, quarter of bread, one ounce of butter,
! ounces of potatoes-about one large, We
!, cooked, mealy one-one ounce of sugar an
!, nine ounces of milk. per diem, yield &c
\ grains of nitrogen, $50 of carbon, and 3f
foot tons of energy. Here the energy fai
2 short, and the carbon is 100 grains shor
Half an ounce of butter or bacon added TO
y will make it exactly right; for the greate
! amount of energy, with the least wear an
U tear OF the vital organs is attained when 3(
!. | grains of nitrogen and 4 900 grains of carbo
= are taken into the stomach and reduced
: the digestive organs. This is the standar
!. diet for the average healthy man doing
moderate amount of work. Labor, wheths
: mental or muscular, of more than ordin
:, | riiy severe character, demands larger su
= ply of food, but the scientific liver will ha,
!. his meals prepared to yield something a
!. proximate to the STANDARD above given. I
, | will not eat too much afbumlnorus food lii
= | meat, or too little bread and lat or butte
= nor will he neglect the vegetables like tom
20 toes, lettuce watefcYess and an occasion
, potato, for these last supply a certain sal
= derived from the earth, necessary for Il
y publication of the blood; while
: albumin0us food, while 1t serves the pu
~ poses of keeping him warm and actiy
Sc throws upon the kidneys great deal mo
2. than their share of the work, and, therefor
y tends to weaken them, and through. the
ID the whole system. So much for pretsarsto
diet.
NOW ZOE EXERCISE
necessary to keep the muscles IN proy
condition aud work off the food sEhich 81
>. Plies muscular energy.
Obviously that form of exefcif whi
~ attacks the largest number of nuss les is
ie most desirable. But. before psocf eding
,,oo ~ discuss the forms of exercise mDet profitat
ds averciss Most imnortant are .ha : fS,
ne upon tho heart and lungs AID their subs
=. Y. iary agents. The system requires tha
oI great deal of oxygen shouA, be taken il
re the lungs and thus to the blood, in or
frst to burn up the carbon. and supply hs