Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-08-08
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A Plea for More Ertended co~sssn,psses,.
A sanItarian quotes statement from
the New York Herald that "a New
York journalist, who had for many years
been afflicted with dyspepsia so that he
could not eat even the most delicate
fruit, recently visited Arizona, and found
that he could eat fried salt pork three
times day." and comments upon it as
follows:
Had he tried the same diet before
going, possibly he would have Jared
quite as well. He might have required
few trips to Coney island or Long
Beach and back, or daily walk before
dinner from Printing House Square to
his uptown home, to stimulate his appe
tite, when he would have found the
same good effects from fried salt pork in
New York as in Arizona. By I" fried
salt pork" we would be understood as
recommending it or some other kind Of
| food containing sufficient amount OF
digestible fat The difference between
salt pork and bacon in this respect, If
equally well prepared, is a matter OF
taste, and with either one properly
cooked and well-made hot griddle cakes
daily for breakfast, journalists would
rarely find it necessary to seek better
climate than may be found within easy
access to New York or diet which will
better fortify them against the common
dangers of city filth.
Fried salt pork or bacon, to be good
should be first simmered or parboiled in
sufficient quantity of water to dissolve
out the excess of salt, and to make it
tender, and then fried brown-not to a
crisp. For some persons, a more deli
cate way is, after the parboiling, to turn
the slices In wheaten-four batter, and
then fry them.
"Delicate fruits" diet, particularly
for breakfast, which ordinarily means
abstinence from substantial fats, ia the
death of many journalists as well as
other persons, whom journalists should
teach to know better. Restore the old
fashioned "hog and hominy' to its
wonted place, and there would be such
falling off in the death-rate hereabouts
as would even astonish the keeper Of the
streets-so much better would people
be able to Withstand their vile emana-
tons. In short, editors should teach
the people in these ATTITUDES that, in one
way or another, every full-grown man or
woman, and every youth, requires about
two ounces of fat daily, as portion OF
his or her diet, and if not taken as food.
the time is nastened when it has to be
IS medicine, to simply prolong-it may
be for year or two-a miserable exis-
tepce with consumption or other fatal
disease in consequence-"d dyspepsia
and loss of fat being commonly the frs,
admonitions. A journalist, or any other
person in this latitude, who long neg
lects to take due proportion of fatty
food to maintain bodily temperature,
will soon find himself growing lean, his
system will live upon it's interstitial fat
that which is distributed through the
bodily tissues of healthy persons-and
he will shortly begin to have dyspeptic
symptoms on account of the deficiency
in his food to maintain healthy nutri.
ton. And for this condition, it is un.
fortunately too often the case, medicine
or moonshine is given in promotion Of
the danger. Fortunate, indeed, is it il
such persons can be dispossessed Of
their infatuations by trip to Arizona
or anywhere else to restore them to q
sense of their wants and the wit to use
them. Many persons who, from the
cultivation of a vitiated taste for delica
cies, OF under the influence of bad ad
vice, have lost the power of assimilatine
the fat of meats, may do much TOWARD
regaining the lost power by the use O
well-made shortened bread made O
dough to which lard or butter is added
or some of the preparations of grounf
wheat or Indian meal