The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-05-21
WHAT HAN SHOULD EAT.
The Human Anatomy Arranged for AMI
NAL Food-Beef and Milk Good.

WHAT HAN SHOULD EAT.
Tho Human Anatomy Arranged for Anil
NAL Food-Beef and Milk Good.
"Stuif aud nonsense" said an expert.
enced Chicago physician, laying down an
English illustrated treatise on vegetari-
auism. "Why, the entire human anato.
my would have to undergo d change" he
continued, "to make man, unless afec-
ted very especially by disease or some
idiosyncracy due to disarrangements, a
herbivorous animal. The digestive ap-
paratus of the vegetable feeders is far
more complex an arrangement than that
of carnivorous creatures or of human
beings. The stomach of COW, for
instance, is arranged in four parts-four
stomachs, in fact-through each of
which the food must pass before return
ing to the mouth to be still further mas.
ticated before it can be digested. Flesh.
eating animals have but a single stomach,
like hollow sack. One killed three or
four hours after it has eaten full meal
will be found to have an empty stomach,
while in an OK or sheep killed the same
length of time after eating the process of
digestiol will be found to have hardly
finished its first stage. 1t is apparent
from this, if from no other evidence, that
human ;stomachs, especially if weak or
belonging to nervous persons, should be
saved the labor of converting vegetable
substances into a form fit for assimilation
so long as they can be spared the task by
being supplied with animal food.
"L am disposed to exclude vegetables,
with the exception of cereals and little
fruit, entirely from the dietary of nervous
persons. Whys First. because animal
food is more nutritious to the nervous
system and to the body generally than
vegetable. 1t has all the essential ele.
ments for the formation of the tissues of
the body, and is easily digested. It
seems possible for man to exist on it
alone and in any climate, and continue
in normal condition. The first food
taken by humanity-milk-is strictly an
animal substance. 1t contains all the
elements necessary to the growth of the
human body and to its maintenance in q
state of health. This can not be said of
any one article of vegetable food. Then
the nervous system consists largely Of
fat, and this substance must be supplied
in some form or other in order that the
brain and other nerve structures shall be
properly nourished. If person uses up
his brain faster than he makes it he soon
becomes irritable and nervous. And if
he does not assimilate enough food to
supply its demands his mind soon is sure
to become weak. The healthiest and
strongest individuals, even, should eat a
far greater proportion of meat than of
vegetable food. Beef should be taken as
the standard meat. 1t answers every
purpose of the system when not cooked
too much. Veal and pork are not rs
easily digested. Pork, so far as its com.
position goes. is an excellent food for
nervous persons, but it is not riadily
digested. Yes, in the army we used to
think nothing better for wounded men
than bacon. But, as rule, salt meat is
not adapted to the requirements of the
nervous Individual. The nutricious
juices, to a great extent, 60 into the
brine.
"The flesh of young animals digests
quicker than that of mature ones. This
is true, also, OF the flesh of wild birds,
which is more tender than that of do.
mesticated ones. This is accounted for
by the greater amount of exercise they
take, thereby renewing their flesh more
rapidly, and making it younger than
that of birds which live more quiet
life. This is a hint that might be of
benefit to ladies of sedentary habits who
are desirous of prolonging an appearance
of youth. Fish of all kinds is good food
for nervous people. Raw eggs, contrary
to the general opinion, are not so digesti.
Bile as those which have been cooked.
They should be boiled just enough to
harden the white. Some persons digest
hard boiled eggs better than those cooked
rare. Neither fried eggs nor anything
else fried should be eaten by nervous
people,"
"Do not most persons injure their
digestion by eating too much 2"
"No; the great majority, especially in
this country Of abundant food, don't eat
enough. 1 am quite sure of it, There
are more people killed by not getting
sufficient to eat than by overlooking their
stomachs. Many of those who do eat
a sufficient quantity are prevented by
some disease from digesting enough for
the economy of their systems. The very
first thing for any one who has exhausted
himself by mental work, or one who has
been born weak and irritable, is to fur.
nish his brain with sufficient food to
either repair the damage it has sustained
or to build it up into strong, healthy
condition.
"Such persons usually suffer from
nervous dyspepsia. Their stomachs are
inadequate to the task of digesting the
food put into them. Owing to the def
cient nerve.power of the individual it
lies there unacted upon by the gastric
juice, because there is either none or an
insufficient quantity to have any power.
The food, instead of helping to renew
the body and the nervous system with
the rest, undergoes fermentatation, and
the body it should nourish starves. The
person is in a worse state than if the
food had not been eaten, for the fermen-
tation develops acids and gases.
"Nervous people may get all the fat
they need out of sugar and starch, but it
is better for those whose digestive organs
arc very weak or whose nerves are in a
highly sensitive condition to get it from
the animal kingdom than to compel their
enfeebled stomachs, intestines and pan
creas to create it out of starch and sugar.
Good bread with plenty of sweet butter
is an excellent food for the nerves.
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