The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-05-15
BROWN BREAD.
The most Healthful and Strengthening DIE
Aseertained from aisror1calsand Sci
entifc Investigation.

vegetable dle6 Is Glle oeoC hOooo W Pio
mote health, strength and for mental
or physical labor. A great percentage
of the manifold disorders which affilct
humanity are generated by the use of
pork. and other meats in immoderate
quantities, and prepared in preposter-
GUS forms with lard, rich sauces, sea-
sonine, etc. "Vegetable aliment, as
neither distending the vessels, nor
leading the system, never interrupts
the stronger action of the mind; while
the heat, fullness and weight Of animal
food is adverse to it's efforts"
Cornaro, the dietest, allowanced
himself to u ozs. of dry food, and IA
ozs. of liquid food per day, from the
age of 40 to 100. Of all animal food
in common use, pork is decidedly the
worst. Its use as food frequently ell
genders an extremely painful disease,
by many pronounced incurab!e, caused
by filthy parasite which exists natur-
ally in the mucles of swine GOOD
bread contains the best food for man
in the proportions required for healthy
nourishment. Wheat is the king of
grains, the most perfect food for man;
but we have bread also of rye, oatmeal,
barley, maize. rice, etc, and even
baked potato is closely allied to bread.
At best white bread is often the cause
of disease. Unless one eats considera-
BILE proportions of fruit Or vegetables
with it. it produces stipation.
The sweetest and most nutritious,
the healthiest bread in the world is
kat made from unbelted wheat-fiour
- 6read not the dry and tasteless
81 petimes made by bakers by
mixing bran with their ordinary dough
bat bread made of the ':whole meal"
Of good sound wheat, and containing
all its nutritive elements. Chemists
have found by analysis that the nitro
genous or flesh forming portion of
wheat resides chiefly in it's outer layer,
the very part thrown away er given to
cattle, and Psychologists have also dis
covered that it is this portion which
keeps up healthy action of the bow
els. No person who lives chiefly OF
largely on genuine brown bread, or its
equivalent, in perhaps Il better form
porridge made of coarse wheat meal
ever suffers from constipation, andlong
standing cases, even Of years standing
and constant use Of aperients, that did
not soon yield to such diet.
"From the earliest known ages
brown and wheat bread has been famed
as most healthy invisorating food
Hippocrates, the father of medicine,
prescribed it, the hardy Spartans lived
On it, the Romans of the heroic ages
lived on it, and their armies conquered
the world ON diet OF brown bread
The most healthy peasantry Of central
Europe ate it as their commen food
Baron Steuben said the peculiar health
fulness of the Prussian soldiery q cen
tury ago was owing to their living al |
most entirely OH unbolte'l wheat bread F!
During the naval glory of Holland her
sailors ate the same kind. During the
wars of Napoleon, when wheat was
dear in England, the army because of
economy, was supplied with brown
bread. The soldiers at first refused to |
eat it, threw it away, all but mutinied,
but in few days they liked it better
than the white and their health SO
much improved that in few months
disease was almost banished Many of !
the nobility adopted it, and physicians
began to prescribe it. An orphan asy-
lum in New York was cured of cpl
denic opthalmia by the use of brown
bread in place of white, land this
brown bread, with its equivalent ;
preparations, is the purest, the health
tbiest, the best form of human food.
The model food for childhood and
youth; the food of growth, purity,
beauty, intellect, in one word, ofhealth
is brown bread, milk and fruit. There
is absolutely no need of any other A
pound of wheat has more nutritious
value than three pounds Of beef or
mutton,