The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-02
THE NUTRITIvE VALUE OF AL
CoHoL AND ORDINARY FOODS.

| In recent issue of the New York
Sunday journal, there appeared an in
terestinS article, under the above cap
ton, by that celebrated scientist, Prof
w. o. Atwater. whose exhaustive re-
search-in behalf of the government
into the food value of alcohol. has
startled the world. In it Prof. Atwatel
makes the following statements:
"A large amount of experimental in
quiry has been devoted to the subject
of alcohol and its nutritive food value
during the last few years in the Uni
| ted States and Europe. The final con-
clusion is that while alcohol cannot
build up the bodily machine and repair
| it as it is worn out, it can and does
serve as fuel for the body. Taken in
! excess, however, it's well-known action
| upon the nervous system is such as to
counteract its nutritlve effect. The
terrible results of long continued ex-
cess are too we'll known to require
comment.
MANY earnest people have opposed
the doctrine that alcohol has a nutrt-
i've value. In so doing they have laid
especial stress upon a view held by
some psychologists and based upon GER
tain experimental inquiries. This view
Is to the effect that alcohol does not
protect protein from consumption. The
protein or heterogeneous material, which
makes up the basis of the blood, mus
Gle and bone and other parts of the
body structure, contains nitrogen and
is made from the heterogeneous parts
of the food, like the lean of meat, the
casein of milk, the white of egg and
the gluten of wheat.
"Alcohol, like sugar, starch and fat,
contains no nitrogen, and hence, like
them, it cannot build tissue. Like
them it contains Il large amount of
latent or potential energy which be-
comes active when it is burned in the
body. These fuel ingredients of the
food, when they are burned-oxidized
in the body-supply it with heat and
muscular power, ana they also protect
other material, including body tissue
from being burned. The most import
ant material to be protected is the pro-
tein of the body. There is no question
that sugar, starch and fat protect the
fat of the body from consumption and
the protein also. 1t is believed by
practically all the eXperimenters who
speak with authority that alcohol pro-
tects body fat from consumption, but
some have questioned its power to pro-
tect protein"
These conclusions have been arrived
at after experiments with individuals
who have consented to practical i'm
prisonment, in heremetically sealed
cabinets for as long as 80 days. having
food, drink and air measured by the
most delicate recording devices.
After all that has been said on this
subject pro and con, it seems desirable
to emphasize "A point that has not been
previously dwelt upon, |. e., the purity
of the stimulants used,
There can be no doubt of the bene-
tit to be derived by any adult person,
who uses, in moderation, such pure
liquor as is offered by Green Valley
Rye, which Casey Brothers, of this
city, stand behind with positive guar
antee that it is free from fusil oil and
every other injurious ingredient, it be-
ing aged in the wood and bottled just
as 1t flows from the cask. This assur-
ance means much to Scrantonians, as
these gentlemen may be seen any day
at the Office of their sales department,
If the above promises are not fulfilled,
ADV.