Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-05-14
The Art Of Preserving Health.

The Art Of Preserving Health
Cooking has in view the softsning Of
the food to facilitate its solution in the
digestive juices, and the development Of
its flavor to render it more palatable.
Both these objects are accomplished II
the operation is rightly performed, but
both are often defeated by overlooking.
BY boiling, meats lose from twenty
five to thiity-tive per cent Of their
weight. Roasting is better method
of cooking meat. It develops the fla
vor, and at the same time preserves the
juices, leaving the meat in a condition
to be easily digested. The loss in this
method is about twenty-five per cent,
but is chiefly water. Slowing is nearly
akin to roasting. Some kinds of meat
are the best cooked in this manner
Frying is regarded as the worst posi-
bic way to cook meat, as it is likely to
leave the substance hard and indiges-
tible, and to burn the fat. Hence We
may see the great importance OF care
and skill in preparing food for the
table.
The influence of food upon the health
is immediate and powerful. Impsrfect
diet is injurious sometimes by its ex-
cess, sometimes by its deficiency, some
times by the wrong proportions Of it's
elements and sometimes by the IN
wholesome condition of the food con-
sumed. The quantity of food that is
required to keep the system in healthy
condition depends upon circu instances
The poor, who are thinly clad and e.
posed to the cold, need more food than
the well-protected, but they do NO
often get it. Persons in active bus6r
ness need more food, and more fire.
quently, in proportion to their sizey
than adult persons. But in no c.ses
can tho person take more food than the
system requires, without evil conse-
quences. Over.eating is fruitful
source Of arrangement and disease in
the human body.
Deficient diet implies defective nu-
triment, which necessarily reduces the
structure and impairs the strength
" Hunger desolatss head and hear"
and induces the maladies which result
from debility and improperly vitalize6
conditions. The system has no longer
power to resist the numerous causes OF
disease, and hence they come, and often
in the mort malignant form.
The amount of food which the sys-
tenn daily requires is somewhat variable
in different circumstances, yet definite
standards have been reached by scien-
tific men. BY estimating the naturaI
waste, the amount Of food necessary to
repair that waste is aseertained, and il
has been decided that from two to three
pounds of solid food are required each
twenty-four hours in case Of O male
adult in full health and taking free e1-
ercise in the open air. Badly-consti-
tuted diet may be sufficient in quantity,
but it is disproportioned to the end in
viow. The several elements of food
stuFs must be replaced if the healthy
condition of the body is to be pre-
served ; and if all these are not found
in the food of given day the conse-
auences must follow. Hence mixed
food and a various, well-balanced dict
are Indispensable. Unwholesome food
should, OF course, be avoided. The
same qualities that render food usefuA
within the system, make it "spoil !"
when without it. Bread sours, butter
becomes rancid, potatoes sodden and
meat becomes tainted and diseased
All such food is poisonous and danger
Gus to be eaten.
1t is maintained by some that ope
strong, predisposing cause of consump-
ton, which has proved such scourge
in New England especially, is the de-
fciency of fat in diet. Eminent physi-
ologists maintain that the faulty nutri-
ton whish results in tubsrcle is caused
by a deficiency in oily substances. DR..
Bennett, who introduced the use OF
cod-liver oil as remedy for pulmonary
diseases, states that butchers, cooks,
sil-men, tanners and all such as con-
stantly come In contact with fatty mas-
ter, are less liable than others to con-
sumptive habits, and from this fact har
draws his inference. DR.. Carpenter
says: "Thsre is . strong reason to
believe that deficiency of oleaginouS
matter in q state fit for appropriating
by the nutritive processes, is fertile
source of diseased action, especially
that of tuterculous character" DIR.
Haskin in his report on the diet OF tia
sick, confessss this opinion in o positive
manner.
ECcLEsIAsTICAL QUALIFICATIONS. -
The different denominations, congrega-