The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-27
DIET REFORMS LATEST PHASE.
Bread, Meat and Vegetables Discarded Il
Favor Of Nuts akd Sweet Fruits.

| Bread, Meat and Vegetables Discarded in
/ Favor of Nuts akd Sweet Fruits.
| Modern science yields an iconoclastic
| club against all our pet theories and
traditions. Bread that has been from
time immemorial regarded as the staff
of life is according to the new gospel OF
beauty expounded by Dr.. Helen Dins-
more, responsible for much OF the nerv-
Gus irritation and prostration of this
age, and leads to intempe-ance- The
little child cries for banana and is
persuaded to eat large quantities of
| bread under promise of the fruit as a
reward. According to DR.. Helen and
| ner theory the child's desire for the
fruit is natural and reasonable one,
which should be INDUCED to the fullest
extent. Bread and all cereals, accord
ing to the new philosophy of dietetics,
are not digested by the stomach but
rather in the intestines, where the 81
gestive power is less vigorous and is
overtaycd in assimiiating them. The
strain upon the nervous system involved
calls for a piclz-me-up first jim the form
of tea and coffee or tobacco. and finally
wine Or alcohol. Vegetable foods, from
their excessive potash, demand large
quantities of salt, which in turn paves
the way by depressing the nervous sys-
tenn for the use of narcotics and slim
ulants.
Fruits and nuts, on the contrary. are
adapted to the tastes and appetites of
man without the addition of salt or IT.
ritating spices, are more easily digested
and:assimilated than cereals and vegeta-
bles and furnish the same supply to tho
waste of the body that bread la boriously
digested less naturally furnishes. The
system is too intricate for presentation
in full, but the treatment recommended
by both DIR. Helen and her husband,
DR.. Dinsmore, consists primarily OF
fruit and nuts, but sweet fruits supple
mented by milk and eggs or mild cheese
are recommended during the transition
OF diets, especially for vegetarians.
One invalid was brought out of a
dangerous illness by eating two figs
with teacup of milk three times day,
increasing the amount gradually until
now she eats four ounces of Tunis dates,
half a pint of milk three times a day,
two eggs. little fresh butter, and q
few ground pine kernels every day.
Another woman is thriving and work.
ing on eight ounces of Halloni dates,
one-half pint of milk, and one ounce Of
pine kernels for breakfast, and figs,
dates, milk and nuts for the other
meals, which are taken at intervals OF
six hours three times day.
An elderly woman who is taking the
diet has corrected the tendency to
obesity from which she suffered, her
hair has not lost It's color, her eyes re-
quire no spectacles, and everywhere
she is taken for her own sons wife's
sister. According to DR.. Dinsmore,
when the diet becomes universal beauty
will come to be recognized as no more
the property of youth than of age. The
athletic form of age, with its open and
unwrinkled brow. will have no gray
deformity, no deadly germs of languor
and disease, no wrinkles, but perfect
bearing, clear eyesight, sound teeth,
elastic step, physical vigor, and spirit
uaI contentment.-N. Y. Sun.