Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-05-19
GOOD ADVICE ABOUT EATING
Doctors Smashing Ola Time Superstition,
About Di6ersnt Kinds OF Food.

Doctors Smashing Ola Time superstisions
About DiEsrsns Kinds Of Food.
Some recent remarks By Dr. James q
White. professor Of dermatology In fiar.
ward university. are directly In limo with
an article published only few days ago
In these columns on the subject Of scnsl.
BILE eating There Ia, Of course, no sub.
tcct concerning which people need infor.
nation moro than they do about eating.
and there are very few subjects on which
moro ridiculous notions are extant "Oue
mans meat Is another mans poison" is
an old and true saying. yet great ma.
jority OF mankind have ideas Of diet that
are formed from tho experience Of other
people, and these Ideas are very commonly
absurd. DR.. White disposcs Of some Of
these notions, by tho authoritative utter.
ance Of a thorough scientist.
For example. he touches on tho old
wives fable that butter In liberal ouanti.
ties will cause childrens faces to break
out with "butter sores" Ho declares,
what Intelligent people have long known,
that good butter uncookcd Il perfectly
harmless food % Tar - the akin u con.
ccrned. and he might have gone much
farther, for the limitation was unneces.
sary. He says, however, that tho notion
alluded TO probably came from the fact
that the use OF impure butter In food
otherwise indigestible may have dis
turbed the stomach and produced Impure
blood In some cases. II is more likely TO
have come from the efforts Of parents Of
limited means to curb their chlldrens In.
dulgence In an expensive dainty II is
certain that much OF the prejudice against
candy came from this particular cause,
though with candy. a. with butter, tho
VValnAtao II Av.tl~>l~ A,.sklaubY- l.
once 70 sdulteratcd and Impure grades.
Nothing b more common than To hesr
parents tell their children that eating
candy will ruin their teeth. but Il is most
likely TO be an utterance dictated BY
economy. Az all events. no educated
dentist will lndorse the statement
Tho notion that buckwhcat cakes and
oatmeal arc productive OF skin diseases Is
also attacked and pretty thoroughly do
molished by Professor White. as we'll as
that absursiity about tomatoes which wns
started by Dio Lewis generation or so
ago He said that tomatoes were pro.
ductive Of cancer. and that they loosened
and destroyed the teeth. Dr. White do.
clares tomatoes and oatmeal TO DO harm.
less and valuable foods. and points at tho
simple fact that the only danger In eat
Ing buckwheat lies In the fact that
II is apt to DO served up hot in tho form
Of improperly cooked cakes These may,
and are very likely to. upset the diges.
tion. He declares. moreover, that good
digestion and healthy appetite will take
care Of the skin so far as the effects Of
food arc concerned. and that II matters
little what kind OF food Is used 40 long as
IL IL pure. Of good quality and properly
prepared. Tho healthy stomach will turn
1t into good blood This. It will be seen,
Is similar usterance TO that Of Dr.. Aus.
tin Flint. recently quoted, only that DR..
White, treating as he did on the skin only,
did not mako so sweeping statement as
Dr.. Flint, who said; EAT what you like,
when you like. and cat Is much as you
like. You may get gout that way, but
not dyspepsia New York Mail and Ex.
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