Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-12-09
DIR. RYDER on "BEST FOOD EOR
TIE BEST BODIES"
She magnifies the Kitchen-Hints on
Cooking Eating and Drinking
Not n Thcosophist.

best bodies" AT the outset she |
demonstrated the physiology of
the human system by means of
charts. This was accompanied by
a statement of general principles.
Where there is law and order
there is no disease. The relations
between the spinal column and
the brain, in health and disease,
were described, also the muscular
and nervous systems. Once the
seat of the soul, or spiritual
headquarters, was held to be cx
clusively i'll the brain. Then a
school arose that located the soul
in the heart. Yet another had it
seated in the stomsch, which was
not bad idea. A divine power
puts life into US, and again takes it
from us, but nobody can tell what
the life really is.
Food is the building material of
the body, but four tifths of what
we eat is to supply the heat of the
body, and the remainder TO build
and strengthen it. The kitchen
is, therefore, the most important
room in the house. 1t should be
! called the laboratory. Cooking
schools are essential to a complete
education, and all girls in Homo
lulu should have a course of train.
ing therein. She did not know
whether any such were in exis-
tence here. All woman physi-
clans had to pass through the
cooking department before the
medical in their curriculum.
DR.. Ryder spoke Of the pre-
valence of headache, neuralgia,
constipation, etc, saying that they
were all referable to impro-
per dieting. Their prevention and
cure lay of course in proper diet.
DIR. Ryder gave an interesting
description of the process Of
digestion, as witnessed by her in
Vienna clinics, from day to day,
in the singular case of woman
born with an aperture in her body
showing the operations of the
stomach.
Many people in Honolulu eat
more meat than is good for
them in this warm climate.
Meat is not essential for giving
strength to the body. Millions Of
people in the world thrive without
ever eating meat. 1t should not |
be eaten more than once a day in !
this climate. Beef, mutton and |
poultry are the best of flesh food. |
DIR. Ryder has no use for pork.
Fish is wholesome and strength
ening. No meat should be eaten
until "a to AZ hours after being |
killed. Children should not eat |
meat until after they get their
second teeth-or when five years
OF age. Their first teeth are ap
propriately named the milk"
teeth, and are not adapted to pro.
perly chewing meat. Vegetable
food is essential to strong BODIES.
Vegetables should be cooked by |
steam and dried in a heated oven
before being seasoned and served. |
Whole cereals are more potent |
food than tie white flour bread |
stulfs of commerce. There is no
nOurishment III white bread, as
experiments on guinea pigs had
proved. Those fed on white
breed alone pinned to death, while
those fed On whole wheat bread |
thrived. catmeal's value as q
food was highly recommended,
the strength Of the Scottish race
being in evidence. 1t ought to
be we'll boiled, however, and DR..
Ryder advised having mush made
over night, requiring only heating
in the morning for breakfast.
Eggs were approved of, but, if
liked hard boiled, they should be
put in the water whilo it is cold
and boiled for an hour. She also
gave directions for making salads
and other articles of diet.
Children needing physic had
better be dosed with cream than
oil. Cheese is good building
material for the body. There is
no food value in cakes and pies.
Fruit desserts are fit for royal
tables and should be in the hum
blest bills of fare. She had said
before that diet one. third
fruit tells wonderfully on the
liver and bowels. Some peo-
pie do not drink enough,
particularly dim r..I.',. -