The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-12-08

bread. Within seven months his weight
increased from las pounds ito 10
pounds, and his strength of both body
and mind had increased in proportion.
His labor had been severe; he Is ma
chinist and an inventor, working ten
| hours every day, and doing good deal
| OF practical and profitable thinking at
| the same time. 1t is now a full year
| since he came to one meal, and the
weight gained has been maintained,
and his health is perfect. During the
last winter, for the purpose of testing
the sufficiency of one meal of pure food
for the most trying labor, he worked In
an iron foundry for three months, and
notwithstanding the extreme and fire.
quent changes of temperature incident
to the work, on cold mornings with the
mercury below zero and in in the after
noon 120 degrees above, and all hands
sweating like rain, he had not a cold
for the winter, and was the only en-
ploye thus exempt. He had formerly
been subject to frequent attacks of the
above disease. His daily ration con-
sists OF six ounces to nine ounces FAC
cording to labor) of Graham -four, be-
sides fruit sufficient to supply all the
liquids necessary-half q dozen apples
or their equivalent in other fruit. He
is rarely thirsty. but sometimes, if too
little fruit is taken at meal time, he
takes small draught of water in the
course of the day. This meal is taken
at night, after entire recovery from
fatigue, usually at about seven o'clock.
During the month of May, 1881, just
passed, he gained sixty hours, or six
full days, working extra hours at his
bench, sometimes working right through
to midnight, and taking his breakfast
after short rest, before retiring. No
man in his employ had gained so much
time. He has occasionally made a trial
OF bolted flour bread, but has invaria.
bly, experienced loss of weight and
strength.
my own experience goes far to
prove the efficiency of the above repi-
men for either the brain or muscle
worker. l am now taking but one meal
day, and find myself perfectly nour-
ished, weight and strength maintained,
on about fourteen ounces of unleavened
Wheat-meal bread, to the mastication of
which l devote an hour or more. /
ind that six cold gems, weighing about
fourteen ounces, without even butter or
milk, chewed deliberately and thor.
oughly dissolved by the Juices of the
will sustain me much better
than when eaten warm with butter or
milk. or both together added. and eaten
as fast as one naturally eats hot rolls
and butter or bread and milk. Consid.
ering the manner in which people in
general bolt their food. it is not strange
that a large proportion of it fails of di- 1
gestion. Starch foods cannot be trans. |
formed into pure blood entire, except
SO far = the change is begun in the
mouth.
until few months ago took nv |
food in the morning, but / find the |
evenings better time. During the day
the brain and muscles can have every-
hing their own way, without interfer-
ng or hinderlng digestion, and at even
ng, after sufficient rest, there is per-
'ect tranquility of body and mind and
leisure to digest I had never been a
good sleeper until adopted this sys-
'em OF diet People who eat several
meals day do we'll to take the last
me early, and the lighter they make it
he better, but dyspeptics may rest as
ured that. of itself considered, the
evening meal is not the cause of their
vakefulness or troubled dreams. When
ate three meals of mixed diet,
Gould not make the last one simple
nough to give me complete rest at
light, but now, when rested from nv
lays labor, can eat my full vegeta-
ian meal and sleep like a well-fed babe.
could give quite number of exam.
lies like the foregoing, of one-mealers.
nd space permit, all tending to prove
he superiority of vegetable over ami
nal diet, and of the entire wheat over
ne most scientifically impoverished
rticle.''