The Worcester spy., 1899-07-25
A MAN is WHAT HE EATS,
Good Cooking is Safeguard Against In
Temperance, AduIteration and Excess.

DR.. Hall spoke on Food and nutri-
ton" and said in substances: In the
Kensington museum in London, there
is always a crowd standing about col
lection of walls containing the elements
Of the human body, in the proportion
in which they exist in the body.
Our body is in a condition of constant
change. Some of the things which go
into it, come out as lower compounds
ana others become higher. All the ener-
Sy IN US originally came from the sun,
The work done in the body has been
estimated to be thousands of heat units
DAY. One-fifth of the energy of the
body goes out in mechanical work. All
work means the fall of all chemical
substance to lower and more stable
forms. Nutrition is always working
against this and it is well to have
food broken up enough to make 1t cas-
Ter to build UP into complex forms
Cooking does outside what 9th
erwise the body would have to do in
SIDE The body In all it's work follows
the law of conservation of energy.
Every organ is a digestive organ, and
1t is true that a man is what he eats.
1t isn't so much what we eat, but what
we do with what we eat. 1t has been
a long research to try to discover what
foods are best at each period of life
and for each occupation. We know that
phosphorus is necessary for thought,
and that people in cold countries need
the carbohydrates, the fats, to give
| fuel.
The basis of psychology is appetite.
| The first desire of new born child or
animal is to eat. The first form of the
| viii to live is the will to eat Nearly
| three-fourths of all the energy in an
| imal life goes to digestion. Half the
| struggle for existence is to get food
| The first movements of the primitive
| animals is to get food. Every fin or leg
| in the world has been developed either
| to escape being eaten or to eat some
| thing. All the legs, the wings, the teeth
| the claws, the beaks were developed to
| get food. Where the food Is, determines
| whether creatures are going to mi.
crate or hibernate. If you know what
an animal eats, you can tell how The
| animal lives
| In cases of starvation, the only or
gan which Is not affected Is the brain
| Starvation is a great stimulus to brain
! activity.
A great deal of study has been d.
verted to property. What is property
| 1t goes back to the instinct of hoard
| ing food. Almost everything is food fol-
something or other. Dry wood, earth
there are people who eat clay.
| The first movements of the child are
! hunger movements. Toward the end
] Of the first year the child wants to eat
| everything, The alimentary canal is Sc
| we'll designed in young children thai
the things they eat prove harmless.
The primitive god was a big eater
| the idols are all nav and teeth. Ami
| mails soon noTl1n IN kunxxY thaiy. faadare,
| When we come to reflect on what home
| Is, we see that it is the hearth, The
| cooking place.
| The pouch of the primitive animal
| evolves the alimentary canal and other
organs accessory to the process Of di-
/ gestion.
Taste is the special doorkeeper at the
| TOP end OF the allmentary canal Smell
IS q capitalization of taste, The
! muscles of denutrition are developed:
! the glands of the stomach the gastric
! juice is enormous. Physiological
| chemistry seems to know less and less
Of the process OF digestion the farther
down II gets. Then the anabolic pro.
| cess comes, the chime and chile are
taken into the lacteals and go to make
up the red corpuscles of the blood
which take all the foods to all the tis.
sues. Each tissue has the power to ex.
| tract from the blood Just exactly what
it needs.
Every kind of death is starvation. II
certain cells or tissue fail to get their
supply, they die.
/ In respiration we have the accessory
organs of digestion, giving oxygen tc
the blood and taking carbon dioxide
away from 1t. What we call hunger il
the net result Of all the cell hungers In
the body, 1t is an echo of them, Just as
the sound Of the mind in forest is the
aggregate echo Of each leaf strikina
against another.
! All sensation is a function of nutri.
tion. The muscles are essentially di.
gestive organs What amount of ener.
gy would be saved If the foods could be
digested in the laboratory and injected
into the body.
The brain is an organ Of digestion. II