The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-07-05
SALADS AND "GREENS."
Their Dietary Value But Little Comp''e-
hended by the American People.

hended by the American People.
It is an unfortunate fact that the dl-
etarv value of salads is but little COM
pretended by the majority of the Amerl-
can people. Leaving out OF consider
alton those thorough barbarians-sadly
numerous. particularly in the rural dis
tricts-who look upon ''grass-eatln
with uncOnceaed contempt, we still
have multitude among us OF persons
deeming themselves intelligent who
either care nothing for salads or. at
best, look upon them as mere gratifica-
lions of the palate, knowing nothing OF
their Importance for the preservation OF
health. TO these it is we'll to offer the
assurance that if they will make :salad
of escarole. barbe de capuchina chicory,
dandelion, lettuce, celery, or even OF
the humble cabbage-bett in this
way than any other-a portion OF their
daily dinners they will soon realize that
their digestive and assimilative organs
are in better condition than they ever
were before. The fresh vegetable ma
terial of the salads is in itself highly
beneficial, especially when there is a
paucity of this element in our ordinary
food supply; the oil is highly valu-
able Ingredient for it's effect upon
the stomach and bowels; and the garlic
well, some folks do not like garlic,
but right minded man will want
little flavor of it in his salad, and you
can hardly get so little of it that it will
not do you some good, so potent are its
virtues. The dandelion salad is worthy
of special mention and commendation,
from our present point Of view, not be-
cause it tastes better than either of the
others, but for its medicinal effect. 1t
must be a sadly wOrn-Out liver that will
not take new lease of vigorous life
from course of dandelion salads in the
spring-time.
Eminent physicians have affirmed re-.
peatedly that the requirement for their
profession would be reduced to a mini
mum if people would only regulate
properly their diet; and some have
gone so far as to proclaim that nearly
all diseases could be prevented and
many of them actually cured by en-
ployment of the remedial agencies to
be found in food. They are undoubted-
ly right. Proper feeding is the most
important requisite for the preserva-
ton of such healthful condition in the
organs of digestion and assimilation as
will afford pure blood, without which
rapid deterioration and disease of the
whole animal economy is inevitable.
The attainment of that condition is the
main end in view in the highest med
ical science. "An ounce of proven
ton is better than pound of cure. !"
That is why, if we have not eaten
plenty OF salads and otherwise lived
exactly as we should through the win
ter, it becomes so imperatively neees-
sary for us to take an efficacious
Alternative medicine upon the ap-
proach of spring. Cause and effect,
in the preservation of health or
inducing of disease, move in constant
ly widening circle. If our vital organs
are in such torpid and weakened con-
ditiOn that they do not make good blood
and cleanse it from the effete matter
that has a tendency to constant accu-
mutation in it, through the never ceas.
ing waste of tissue, the consequently
impure blood fails to properly nourish
the organs, and their weakness steadily
increases, until they stop working alto
gether. On the other hand, little ra,
tiOnal care to keep the bowels egular,
the kidneys operating freely, and the
liver active in the discharge of it's func
tions, results in pure blood, higher vi
tality and immunity from disease. Tha
rational care may be applied either
through proper food or simple altera
tive medicines An important element
of the former is that upon which we
have insisted-fresh vegetable salads
OF the latter there is nothing better
than a thoroughly reliable preparation
of sarsaparilla, yellow-dock, podophil
lin and stillingia with the addition o
the alternative iodides in very small pro
portions. Analyst.
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