The Newtown bee., 1879-02-18
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Pork is highly nutritious. and Is le; g stimulating than beef but being the meat most mixed with fat, 1t remains long upon the stomach. However. laborers prefer pork and bacon. because. with this food, they are able to remain longer at work without being hungry.
 Pork should be eaten only by those who have strong constitutions anu worA hard in the open air.
 Pork. whether salt or fresh. is hard of digestion, remains long in the stomach, and may be filled with worms-trschsnd spiral,s.
 Buckle tells us, in his History of Clv- ilization." that for number of centuries pork was the chief article of diet Tn Europe Even at the present day ana H our own land. favored as we are with ev- cry variety of flesh and fish, or cerceais and fruit, yet pork constitutes the prih- cipal meat of thousands of families. Food ought always to be adopted to the copstitution and the age. Delicate ladies. the wives and daughters of our 1 farmers. who live indoors. ought not 10 l have the same diet as tho farmers them- selves who live in the open air. Farm CTS. Iumbermen, sailors and soldiers may preserve health on pork, but brain workers of all classes, invalids and dell i cate ladies and children should abstain | death. There Is not a disease in the whole catalogue which 1t may not bring on: there is not n pain of which 1t may not be the father. It is the parent ol dyspepsia, neuralgia, headaches. sleep I liness. s.biliousness" constipation, ny pochondria and every other physical III
 am q strong friend of meat. and ol l fat meat but am a bitter enemy ofpork l for those who live by their brains. | Salted meats in general arc less nu
 tritious. less palatable. and less diges tible than fresh meats. Ham aha DacoI | are better than other portions of the nog | If YOU must eat pork-cannot get noie | of any. hing better-see that 1t Is thor Il oughiy cooked, so that the worms III
 are all killed.
 Farmers. mechanics md laborers ma.
 eat pork and vegetables with greato
 freedom. In this country, however. It I eaten by farmers in too great excess
 Some are SD far away from market lna they can get no fresh maet. Let aIl M suc' keep and kill fof their own use plenty chickens, turkeys and geese.
 The wives and daughters of uTcountr Z farmers in this country are not on th rj whole as healthy and strong as the wive
 and daughters of our city merchants
 Ono rtason among others for this fact If I t,,at they arc compelled to feel on md
 gestible pork, and are denied iresn mea,
 The sturdy master of the house. who 3 always In the open ar, cah dieost an :. keep strong on pork and potatoes D, $ his wife ard daughters need differel < kind of food.
 The great cause of trichin0sis in man {, eating pork that is either raw er - s's ' ' thoroughly cooked. Tho Committees rr thn A.sacerny ' Of Sciences Tn Chicago @ Y amined q large number of nogs an
 found sal Iyicktnae in one out of fifty Son r of the muscles contained from lu, ,OOu F 18. GOO in cubic inch. {, ' The diseasa cannot be cured. It can {
 prevented. The way to prevent the dl u case is, never to eat pork thnt Is nt {. lthorourhly, completely cooked. Tho
 oiQh cooking (nnt more warmingl q x stroys the lIfe of the lrichinde \ s. act upon thls rule wo neNd not 1ear tl b diseaso From sOwv Ho,ne thysscsnsa ?
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