Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-04-12
EATING AND DRINKING WISELY.
what People Should Observe 20 Pre-.
serve q Healthy Mind i'm u Healthy
BOdy-NO Food i'm Alcohol.

11VOy-VNO Qua ALCOHOL
From the New York Herald. 10th inst.
The Farmers Club, at it's recent meeting in
the Cooper Institute. was entertained with a
highly interesting lecture Son the Relation of
Food Products to their Physiological Action"
by DIR. Hubbard w. Mitchell Some of the con-
vivial members were rather disturbed by his ref
erence to alcohol. He said it was essential to
the idea of food that it should maintain or in
crease vital or physiological actions, while drugs
or medicine may increase but usually lessons
some OF them. combination of foods is neces-
sary to maintain all the vital processes If this
were not so single article might~sufiice for all
needs. There are foods which are more valuable
than others, because they surplya greater num-
Der OF substances that the body needs and
hence are called compound foods, while Others
which supply but one element, are called simple
foods, and usually are Incorporated into the
body with but little change Some foods are
classed as animal or vegetable according to the
source whence they are derived; others as
liquid or solid, according to the density of their
substance. Both solid and liquid are absolutely
essential to the maintenance Of life. Foods are
necessary to generate animal heat and to pro-
mote growth OF the body. Heat is the more
important, for the body may waste long time
and live, but II heat is withdrawn death follows.
THE MOST NUTRITIOUS KIND OF FOOD
1t Is necessary, continued the Doctor that the
body be supplied with certain SALTS as those of
potash, lime, soda. and sulphur, and some acids
Experience has taught US how to combine these
for our proper needs. Food must be supplied
regularly. although the effect of the supply is
temporary. The sense of hunger is the sentinel
that tells US when We require food. and this is
done through the agency Of the pneumogastric
nerve. Our food is dgested and assimiiated to
maintain the functions of lfe Physiology tell
us what Is best for our needs. and the most inns
portant are substances that are nitrOgeneou-
and neutrality-suspicious.. OF the first are feshs
fruits, cereals, vegetables, tea, coffee, and milk
OF the second are butter, lard oil, starch sugar;
sage and tapiOca- These are o few of the best
Beef is the most nutritious meet, mutton next
Then comes poultry, game, eggs and fish. Thes.
are all wholesome palatable, and nutritiouse
Eggs are especially nutritious. Milk is the most.
important article fa that nature has supplied to
man, since it contains in itself every needed ele-
ment. Among vegetables potatoes take the
first rank. and should be cooked with great
care. OF liquids coffee and tea are very import
ant. Coffee Is almost q universal beverage and
when roasted and mixed with cream and sugar
ts wholesome and nutritious. 1t il also HARM
less stimulant. The Esquimaux. living In cold
climate, can live on flesh, oil and fat, while the
dweller at the tropics requires fruits, water
bearing vegetables and starch. The cOcoanut
palm tree furnishes millions of people with al
most their entire living. 1t produces milk in
pressed, yields rich Oil. Its sap Is very Inn |
portant aud flows for months at q time in great |
quantities. When boiled 1t produces sugar, and |
when fermented palm wine. The sago palm !
yieIuS ITOI SIX 70 eSnG nunOreQ POUNDS OF Sag0 \
to q single tree. The date palm of Northern
Africa and Egypt supplies delicious fruit Nhe |
date which furnishes the tribes of those coun-
tries with nine-tenths of their living II is so
abundant they feed their camels on this fruit |
and native. with q bag of dates and q skin of |
water, mounted on . camel, can make long |
journey over the deserts with no other food.
ALCOHOL
10 not food. Strong liquors con-
tain ffty per cent OF It, wines about eighteen. /
cider fr0ta i've to ten, and beer eight per cent |
Of alcohol and ninety-tWO per cent OF dirty
water. Much OF the Ill health of farmers Is due |
TO the use Of hard cider. DIR. Maudsiey ofLon-
don, says that seventy-aye per cent of cases Of
insanity ID due to the use Of alcohol. man
exercising freely In tho open cir requires in
tveaty-f0uf hours sixteen ounces Of meat, nine
teen ounces Of bread, three and one-half ounces
Of butter or tat and afty-two ounces of water
Sleep II Of the highest importance. Not less
than eight hours should be taken whsn possi-
bic, and on rising We should never emit our
hath. Exercise comes second IN Importance
Our ordinary every day acts generally give ~
ell we need. GymnAatums are usually kuEtfui
md should not b used except By medical ~
vice.
Tho doctor referred 70 several dlasrans IN
c0lorDd chalk which he piaced On the bnekbeard
and described digestion In the fowl and human
being, the etrc0lsti0a, assamiAfion ond the -
tion Of 1lenhol % tbs hfsln, showing how this
poison eGecte the hRaip cells through the eeee- 1
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