The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-22
greater consciousness of strength four,
five or six hours after a meal.
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five or six hours after meal.
FOOD COMPARED.
Chemistry settles the question of
real value of foods beyond doubt 1t
has been proven conclusively that
meat is less nutritious to it's weight
than many vegeta bles and fruits. To
show how people may be mistaken in
the value of certain fruits, however,
it should be told that raspberries,
blackberries, strawberries, currants,
pears, grapes, plums and gooseberries
contain less than one per cent of
albumen, or muscle producing food,
while dates contain nine per cent, or
about as much as whole wheat. OF
these fruits the richest in sugar are
grapes and cherries, which contain
about thirteen per cent, while dates
contain fifty-eight per cent. Apples
have seven per cent, pears seven per
cent, peaches one per cent, goose
berries eight per cent. and strawber-
rieS seven per cent. While a great
many people would not stop to think
that there was much difference be-
tween dates and gooseberries as food,
the latter would, as a matter of fact,
starve them to death, while the former
would be almost a perfect food.
CEREALS AS FOOD.
'eThere is a great tendency in GER
tain quarters toward abolishing cereals
as food 1t is absurd. Cereals, prop
erly cooked, are splendid foods. 1t is,
of course, necessary to know how to
prepare them and how to eat them.
Most people make the mistake of
washing down cereal foods with var
ious drinks, which interfere with the
action of the saliva. The saliva is in
tended to perform a chemical change
on the starch in such foods, and its
10 in
complaints for which Americans are
famous. If we saw a cow take a
mouthful of grass and then run down
to the creek to take a swallow of
water, afterward returning for another
mouthful of grass, and so on, we
would think that she was a very silly
cow; but that is exactly what great
many of us do. We also bolt our food
and we pay the penalty.
''Pure, soft water is the best drink,
and unless one is very thirsty, it
should be taken one-half hour before
meals. The difficulty about yeast
bread is that an injurious gas is gen
Grated in the raising, which ought to
be allowed to evaporate. Americans
eat their yeast bread fresh, however.
Dat meal is another dangerous food.
1t should be masticated most carefully
If eaten in the form of mush 1t should
! be cooked many hours. The best way
to learn to eat is to watch a horse eat
six ears of corn. If you have patience
to wait until the meal is finished you
will have learned that which will be
of value to you. The most nourishins
cereals are beans, corn, whole wheat,
peas and lentils. These contain from
10 to 80 per cent. of albumen. The
finest of lean beef only contains 10 per
cent. Eggs are mighty solid food.
There is 80 per cent. of fat in the yolk,
while the white contains only 20 per
cent. of albumen, and is otherwise en-
tirely made up of water. 1t will be
seen that such a diet is to be handled
carefully. Milk forms almost a perfect
food for those who can drink it at
all.
81 mention all these things in detail,
because. in my opinion, they are all
of vast Importance, and are facts which
should become widely known. The
knowledge of them has spread greatly
within the last ten years, and the i'm
provement which 1 think is visible in
our diet is, according to my belief, due
to it's spread. A rational diet would
do as much, if not more, than any
other one thing toward the develop
ment of the perfect man.
edward MARSHALL.'