River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1898-02-03
FOOD VALUE OF HONEY.
Why 1t Should Be Eaten.-H0ney-
Cooking Recipes. BY DR..
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c. c. Mile

Is Annually Consumed by every man,
uo; woman and child in
the United States.
Wholesome Food.Of course. MANY
use less than the average, but TO make
up for IL some consume several times
as m UGH 1t is only within the last
few centuries that sugar has become
known, and only within the last gen
erati.n that refined sugars have be-
come So low in price that they may be
commonly used in the poorest fam
lilies. Formerly honey was the prin-
cipdl sweet, and it was one of the
items sent as prOpitiatory Offering
by Jacob TO his unrecognized son, the
chief ruler Of Egypt, three thousand
years before the first sugar-retinery
was built.
1t would be greatly for the health
OF the present generation if honey
could be at least partially restored to
its former place as common article
Of diet. The almost universal crav-
ing for sweets of some kind shows a
real need of the system in that di-
rection, but the excessive use of sugar
brings in its train long list of ills.
Besides the various disorders of the
alimentary canal, that dread scourge,
Bright's disease of the kidneys, is
credited with being one of the results
Of sugar-eating. When cane sugar is
taken into the stomach, it can not be
assimilated until first changed by di-
gestion into grape sugar. Only too
often the overtaXed stomach fails to
properly perform this digestion, then
comes sour stomach and various dyS-
pnptic phases. Prof. A. j. Cook SAYS:
IF cane sugar is absorbed without
change, it will be removed by the kid
neys, and may result in their break
down; and physicians may be correct
in asserting that the large consump-
tion of cane sugar by the l9th-century
man is harmful to the great elimin-
ators-the kidneys-and so a menace
to health and long life"
Now, in the wonderful laboratory
of the hive there is found a sweet
that needs no further digestion, hav-
ing been prepared fully by those
wonderful chemists, the bees, for
prompt assimilation without taxing
he stomach or kidneys As Prof.
Cock says: "There can be no doubt
but that in eating honey our digest
i've machinery is saved work that it
would have to perform if we eat cane
sugar: and in case it is Overworked
and feeble. this may be Just the re-
spite that will save from break
down" A |. Root says: "Many peu-
pie who can not eat sugar without
having unpleasant symptoms follow
will find by careful test that they can
eat good well-ripened honey without
difficulty at all.
Not only is honey the most whole
some of all sweets, but lit is the most
Honey The most delicious. No pre-
paratiOn of man
DELICIOUS oduoe' can equal the deli
cately Favored product Of the hive.
Millions Of flowers are brought under
tribute, presenting their tiny cups OF
dainty nectar to be gathered by the
busy rifers; and when they have
brought it TO the proper consistency,
and stored it in the wondrouSly
wrought waXeu cells, and sealed il
| with coverings of suuwy wnitenesS, no
more tempting dish can grace the
/ table 1T The most lavish banquet and
yet its cost is so moderate that it may
well find its place on the tables OF the
common people every day in the week.
| Indeed. in many eases il may be q
matter Of real economy TO lessen The
~ Eco,omv butter-bill by letting
LII H., honey in part take
10 use money its place. A pound
| Of honey viii 90 as far as pound Of
| butter: and il both articles he Of the
best quality the honey will cost the
less of the two. Often a prime arti-
| Gle of extracted honey, equal TO com
honey in every respect except appear
| ance, can he obtained for half the
i price of butter, or less. Butter is at
| its best only when fresh" while
honey properly kept remains indeh-
nitely good no need TO hurry it out
Of the way for fear it may become
| rancid.
Prof. Cook says 1--WE all know how
childrel long for candy. This long
Give Children ing voices need and
isanuther evidence of
Honey. tho necessitv Of supar
IN our diet. Children should
be given all the honey at each meal
time that they will eat. 1t is safer;
y i'll largely do away with the inordin-
ate longing for candy and other
sweets; and in leSSening the desire
Will d ubl less diminish the amount
~ zane sugar eaten Then II cane
,ugar doe, work misnhi with health.
The harm may be prevented"
ASK the average Guild WheUher ne
will have honey alone on his bread, or
butter alone, and almost invariably
he will promptly answer Honey"
Yet seldom are the needs or the tastes
Of the child properly consulted. The
old man Graves fat meat; the child
loathes it, He wants sweet, not fat.
He delights to eat honey; it is a whole
some food for him, and is not expen,
sive. Why should he not have it9
A. d SHEPARD & Co,
Producers Of Comb and Extracted
Honey, River Falls. Wis.
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