Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-02-11
AT. OIL AND NERVE TISSUE.
How Nervous Patients Are Now Fed-Fat
Not Indigestible-Butterm

How Nervous Patients Are Now Fed-Fat
Not gestibie-Buttermiik.
Those who at the present time are
making the study of the various elements
of our nutrition their business are toler-
ably well agreed upon the statement that
much of the nervous ailment so preva-
lent among us is due to lack of fat and
oil, or their clements, in the constituents
of our food. They claim that the nerve
tissue is composed Of something resent
bling fat itself, and tina. the nerve has in
sufficient nutrition if this food be with
held from it; and that where these OBJ
iects have usually been considered only
as elements for the production OF heat,
they should be considered as elements
for the production of the tissue OF which
the nerve itself is made. II is in this
view that to nervous patients are now
administered such frequent doses Il
milk, the draughts taken so frequently
that they borrow the character Of doses,
and slightly boiled yolk of egg in guam
tity, itself Of an oily nature.
A certain part of the fuel, SO to do
nominate 1t, without which life can not
be supported in the human body l.
afforded by strongly heterogeneous sub
stances like lean meat, and by lesc
strongly nitrogenous substances like our
various breads: but wherever these arc
taken in any quantity there muscular
exertion must be made in order to keep
up the proper balance OF tho SYSTEM
But in these highly heterogeneous sub
stances the fuel is not already prepared
for use by the system, but has to undergo
several processes before it is ready for
combustion. No such laborious processes
are necessary i'm the case of the more
carbonaceous foods. such as butter.
cream, and oil: they almost at once Ike
come compound that passes swiftly
into the circulation without much further
digestion: the combustion, so to call il,
takes place at once. and. unlike that
which follows such fuel as meat, il burns
without leaving any ash which must &c
thrown of from the system in the share
of various secretions that would Ia poison
if remaining.
Many people have an idea that fat and
butter and other oily matters are ind-
gestiblc. But as good an answer as any
to their fear is the statement that III
countries where little meat is used, and n
great deal of oil, indigestion is IN
almost unknown complaint. lnc
IIindoo's gheC is case in rDiI't
and more familiar ono is the earl-
mon olive oil of Italy and Spain and u
southern Europe which is not only "a, n
as a component of salads. and usel IL ny
meat in when meat ic had. and 20 DIP
bread in, but is also slipped by the spoon
full with relish and no detriment. answer
ing in the torrid countries of its greatest
use exactly the same purpose that Tho
blubber of the Esquilnaux answers in
the frigid zone.
Many people who fancy thai milk d.s-
agrees with them because it is toe rit h
will find that by making 1t a little richer,
that il. by adding some cream 10 it, it
will agree with them famously, Butter
milk also is of great value in the diet,
aud SO are bonnyclabber and sour whey.
their Tactic acid being of use to the
digestion, and in the generation of this
Tactic acid starch and sugar play TOO
conspicuous a part to deserve all tho
warnings we have heard against them
But buttermilk has separate value as
enabling people who drink it to dispense
with spirituous stimulants. There is o
whey cure in Europe for rheumatism
and for dyspepsia also, which is said to
work wonders. And not only arc these
fatty foods of Importance in the general
nourishment of the body but they arc
absolute brain food, and any one who iS
obliged to use the brain will find that
eating all the butter which the stomach
can accommodate and assimilate will bo
OF material assistance, and a positive
oafeguard against breaking down. -Har-
per's Bazaar.