Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-28
FOODS, EATING AND NUTRITION |


l
OF lectures in the Brigham Young
| Academy, a desire has been widely ex-
| pressed for their publication in more
| unabridged form than was given in
the brief synopsis during the institute
| week. Commencing with today, there
fore.the News will present one In each
Saturday evenings issue until the
| series has all been published
| THE FIRST LECTURE.
| II will perhaps strike my hearers
| unpieasantiy that my first lecture
bears the prosaic title: Foods. Eat
ing and Nutrition. II is necessary,
however. TO dwell upon 1t us a back
| ground to the lectures which follow.
| This subject Is the new link or newly
| understood link, between the school
| and the home.
| PHYSICAL POINT OF VIEW.
| One of the most attracting II not at
| tractive sights In the Kenslngton mu-
| scum, London, IL n series Of vessels
| graduating from n large Jar To q small
| phlal. They are marked respectively
oxygen % lbs. carbon 81 lbs. hydrogen
| II lbs. nitrogen lbs, calcium 1 10.
| phosphorus IA fbs-and eight other
| minerals In fractions of an ounce. all
| of which make up John Doe who
died In the hospital; not "A grain OF his
| original weight being lost. Such IL
| man-minus something which physi-
| cal science cannot touch.
The analysis might have been made
by another series OF chemicals. as
| proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and
various minerals, but suffice to draw
| the conclusion that man IL of the
| earth earthly Six lbs of food and
drink daily are required to compen-
safe the waste during active life. The
work OF dgesting and assimilating
| means merely that so many pounds
| of lower compound are torn apart
and recombined In n higher. This re-
quires the expenditure of much en-
ergy.
| CHILDREN OF THE SUN.
| 1t is easily demonstrate that every
element of our bodies is directly or
| Indirectly truccable to solar forces.
Scientifically therefore, we are. from
physical point of view at least, chill
dren OF the sun.
| BODIES WONDERFULLY MADE.
Consider the living body from an
other point OF view. Fourteen thousand
| billion cells make up the body and
| 1000 million cells the brain Each cell
presents under the microscope l6 well
defined parts; each Of these parts con-
| tains millions OF molecules. and each
| molecule n myriad of Hypothetical
atoms Man is wonderfully made.
Two million seven hundred thousand
heat units--a heat unit is the amount
OF heat necessary to raise pound OF
| water one degree Fareuheit-nre re-
| uulred daily to keep up the chemical
action which we call life; enough neat
to cook the flesh off our bones, were
we covered for thirty hours with gold
foil. One-flfth Of this energy goes to
l tnngpIIl4r urfinn- the rest is
used In digestion, keeping in mind that
digestion includes every process or the
body not expended In muscular ac-
tivity. our bodies are machines for
distributing energy. We live mainly
| To digest, and digestion Is life. IL IS
the kind of digestion that determines
the kind of life.
Diraatiun on low plane produces
| dull eyes doughty features, coarse tls
sues, and stupid brain. Higher ana
more elaborate digestion produces an
| that contrasts with this coarseness-
| the flashing eye. the beautiful coun
tenance. the silkcu hair. the elastic
carriage the marvellous powers Oh
body and mind The old anag
at IL not what we eat thH'
gives us power nut WAT we WI
should have this qualification, "Wha'
we digest on a high plane Food lies
| therefore ut the bottom of all humhl
achievement. Much attention MAJ
been given to different KINDS OF roo
and their effects In muscle producing
bone producing and BRAIN pFouuclis
md diets based on the kinds OF worf
To he done are common In medica
, doctrine Students often 20 to ridicu
lous extremes on a fish diet, owing u
| the notion as the German proven
puts it:,"without prosperous there
can be no thought e.
If excessive phosphorus We're th'
cure for dullness, ! should often Zee
, | like prescribing whale for certain
, | students in my classes
/ THE PRIMAL LAW OF LIFE.
: The will to live, the desire to pusi
: | INWARD is the primal or fundamen
tnl force in nature. II is movement
| which the child illustrates by moutl
2 and arms almost at It's hrst prea'h
, | n IL the necessary law of existence.
$ The law OF the cell Is divide or die
2 that ia. when the cell has grown to
, | certain size II loses the power OF get
) ting nutrition for further growth
l without becoming two cells. out o
| this necessity has grown the multi
! | plIcity of animated forms.
j The law of existence Is, Eat or b
} eaten" You shall be my food, other
: | wise l cannot escape becoming yours
7 All wings, legs, fms. tails, or othe
! means OF locomutiun have been evolve
In obedience to ms iaW-eVolNS'
| ettnol 10 EtA lhOl Us '@''.f - 'N'''S
: food. All teeth, bills claws, or othe
! means of attack or defense are ais
the result OF This law. The reasoi
they differ is that animals have sin
| gled out, under necessary uinefeh
, | kinds of food. The following OF ex
elusive lines OF living is sufficient I
, explain the difference In the bili OF IN
duck and the woodpecker or the Jaw
OF the wolf and the hare.
Certain animals have developed tn
power to hibernate, which Is likewis
: connected with the law of food. o
rather the absence OF 1000; other
: haestivate, or sink into the mud whe
! the season OF food scarcity come
around.
The area Of animate life fiuctuate
according IN this same law. Wher
: food Is plentiful and danger to III
/, small. animals swarm, as the cas-
: | with rabbits In Australia The coun
! ter check which nature furnishes is al
ways some other form OF life whic
begins to prey upon the dominant rae
, THE FIRST FORM OF PROPERTY
/ Food, even from the point of view o
. political economy. ia the first form o
y proper ty with every race, II maj
9 has nothing else, he seeks 10 pro
4 | Vide himself with the immediate mean
! Of prolonging life. II Is likewise
e striking fact that almost everything
e in the world serves somebody o
something for food. The scale o
u | nutrition In no wide even with hu
G man beings. that one Is astonished "A
/ | natures power Of accommodation
3 | Claws ~ yarious kinds even serve thi