Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-08
FOOD AND DIVORCE.

We ask, care there any ailments in
universal civilized use that do not contain
the normal amount Of food for the nervous
system?'' We reply, eyes - flour.
starch, sugar. Liebig long ago pointed out
that two-thirds of the mineral elements
including the gluten and phosphate cells
were removed by milling. He predicted
disaster to the human race for demanding
an article of flour that should make up
into white bread-the dark -colored bread
being due to the retention of the gluten
cells in their normal proportions. Ma
gendie fed dogs on -four. They all died in
forty days. He fed others on wheat, and
they thrived, etc. Now flour is largely
made up of the parenchymatous starch of
the wheat. In being made white it loses
'three.fourths of peripheral mineral elements
that our Creator intended man should get
when wheat was eaten. In other words,
three-fourths of the nerve food is with
drawn from the most prominent article Of
diet used by married couples who
seek divorce. We do not wish to
diatribe, but we would respectfully say
to DR.. Allen that if he could induce the
married to give themselves the phosphorus
and the nerve food intended for wheat eat
ers, that their nerve centers would be bet
ter nourished and fed in this case, they
would perform their life duties better and
be less sensitive to outside influences As
hungry man is more impressible (may we
call it nervous look for example at a
hungry company waiting for a delayed
dinner) than man well fed, so nerve fed
couples could bear with and put up with
the disagreeabilities of life. Their temper
would be better as their health would be
better. Reproduction would be less an
abnormal and more Of physiological pro-
cess. The mothers nerve centers, well fed
and sustained, would delight in the agree
able music of the voices and feet of chill
dren. We would have more Cornelias.
The function of lactation would be we'll
performed, the children have better start
in the world, and life be much less
a burden to the attendants. As the
dairymen feed for milk, so may physi-
clans feed. For example, a few years
ago Boston lady married and went to
Maine to live. Her age was twenty. eight
years, and her weight 9S pounds. After
time she was delivered of twins sons. A
strong desire was expressed to have the
function of lactation, so that their support
should be derived from the mother alone.
She was placed on the dairyman's plan
and carried it out. After six months
the twins had lived ON their mother alone
one weighed IL and the other lSpounds,
while the mother had gained 10 pounds in
weight There are no signs of divorce in
this family, and the twins are perpetual
sources of delight all around. As physi-
clan, believe that more people are gen.
orally cross, peevish, irritable, ugly, mo-
rose, unfeeling, revengeful, because of
Al
be the case. The time to approach for a
favor is Just after good dinner On the
other hand intoxicated nerves steel the
heart to murder and crime. 1t is not in
tended to wink out of sight natural de-
pravity, but we do believe if the nervous
systems of the married were well nourished
that much of the incentive to divorce would
be removed.-fDr. Cutter in Food and
Health.