The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-26
SUGAR THE souacE or STRENGTHS
Sweet stuffs Are All Right According to
German Doctors.


sweet stuas Are All Right According to
German Doctors.
How often has 1t been found that
womans intuitions were simply q short
cut to the result of mans laborious in
vestigations-that she was right when
everybody thought her wrong! Again
the girls have scored a triumph. Long
have they been criticised for their de-
votion to sweets. And now tardy SCI
ence comes forward to. announce that
sugar-plums are the source of strength;
that sweets are OF all foods the most
nourishing and easily assimilated--
putting the beloved chocolate at the
head of the list.
Inc question of the value of sugar as
food has just been carefully investiga-
ted in Germany, a paper covering the
experiments being written by DR..
Schumburg, staff physician at Emperor
Williams academy. He says:
Great attention has always been de-
voted to the study of the origin of
muscular power and the foods which
most contribute to this. Formerly al
bumen was considered the necessary
element but later Investigations have
pointed to the carbon hydrates, fat and
sugar. The question what food would
most promptly supply the muscles with
new ylgor Is an important one. The
absorption of albumen and fat Is q slow
process; and some authorities hold that
II is not the fat itself, but only fat
chemically altered into sugar that is
useful to the muscles. If this be true,
to bring about continued muscular
activity carbon hydrates are necessary.
But not all carbon hydrates are assimi-
lated equally well. Starch is most large
ly consumed, but it's assimilation is
brought about by fermentation in sugar
and water and the gastric juices; then
only Is 1t soluble. Sugar, however, goes
into solution Immediately, and is alb
sorbed without the aid of anything else.
The fact that in Germany but 10 kilo-
grams of sugar are consumed on an
average, while in Great Britain S9.25
kilograms are used, has been cited as
explaining the greater endurance and
power for work among the English. The
cab drivers of Java give their hard
worked horses molasses.
Experiments have been made by
Ugolino Mosso with the Mosso ergo
graph (register of force). using the mid
die finger and its muscles as test; but
his experiments are more or less unsat-
isfactory. | have experimental with
the same instrument in the laboratory
of the Royal Agricultural High school
at Berlin. and have reached some valu-
able conclusions. / did not try the ex-
pertinent on myself, but on person
who knew nothing of the purpose of the
experiment. Each day he was given 200
CUBIC C6HllfIl6lTGS OIL Sweet llQuid u
drink. One day this contained 30 grams
of sugar; the next it was just as sweet,
but contained 25 grams of dulcin,
preparation of RiedePs lacking the es-
sential elements of sugar but having the
same taste. Thus the person expert
mented on thought he got nothing but
sugar, and in this way the effect of the
will, so evident in Mosso's experiments
upon himself, was obviated. Mosso's
ergograpn, however, was used. The
forearm, generally the right, was en-
circled by four restraining bands, fast
ened to heavy table, binding the arm
firmly but comfortably in horizontal
position. The second and fourth fin
gers were stuck into fixed sheaths
reaching to the hand, so that the mid
die finger alone could bend up and
down. over its third joint leather
ring was placed attached to the end
of a piece of catgut, the other end of
which passed over the small pulley. To
it was fastened a weight of four kilo-
grams To this string was attached a
registering apparatus. The suding
piece at the top has a marking lever
beneath IL, which indicates on SCOT COL
ored paper below the distance through
which the bending Of the middle finger
moves the upper piece, thus showing
the height of which the weight is lifted.
The plate on which the paper lies has
a toothed edge, and 1t is pushed over
the space OIL Two COSS Hlcll thC GACSiio-
magnet comes in contact with the
shoe over it. In my experiments this
took place once every two seconds; at
intervals of this length the electric
clock closed the current, in the circuit
of which was the condenser magnetic
ing the electro magnet. Every two
seconds ii attracted it's shoe with a
loud clap-which was the signal to the
person who was the subject OF the eX-
pertinent to contract his finger. The
key with handle below the clock
served to break the current in the in
terval.
with this apparatus the person ex-
perimented on raised a weight of four
Kilograms every two seconds by bend
ing his finger, until he became fatigued.
Although a very healthy person, he
required rest in addition to the inter-
walls already mentioned. Pauses of from
seven to ten minutes between expert
ments sufficed for the fiexor muscle OF
this finger to recover fully.
THE exact method of procedure was
as follows: Two hours and a half be-
fore the beginning of the experiment
my subject took breakfast, this con-
sisting of 200 cubic centimetres of milk
and coffee and so grams of white bread.
At $3.50 o'clock the work with the ergo
graph began as described above, lasting
for "a periods of work with five minutes
between. A day of rest followed each
day of labor. In the midst of the ex-
perments, after the twelfth labor
period, he received 200 cubic centime-
tres of sweet liquid to drink, which on
one day contained 80 grams of sugar.
and on the next, mixture made equal
ly sweet by % grams of dulcin. The
Altogether. the man on whom l ex-
perimented made from 667 to go turns
of the pulley in so minutes, showing
that he raised at least $4,000 Kilograms.
The maximum labor of a Woodworking
stone carrier in a day is 100000 kilo-
grams.
THE conclusion from the experiment
was that 80 grams of sugar after one
half or three quarters of an hour
restored the body to muscular vigor. 1t
is evident from these tests that even
after great strain of the muscles their
geographic power may be noticeably
increased even by 30 grams of sugar.
THE practical outcome is that, for the
accomplishment of extraordinary mus
cular labor. the eating of sugar, even
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