The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-01-13
|Science and Health


| while they may be taken by the average
| person with impunity. Some substances,
| too. are generally regarded as being very
''nourishing,' while many foods harmless
| in health are thought to be most unde-
| sirable for an invalid
These notions too. as far as they go, are
quite useless In practice. as they are not
| founded on any scientific knowledge OF
| what they really mean. but are the relies
| OF a body of traditions handed down by our
great grandmothers, and many OF them
| arising from conceptions of the functions
| of the human body, founded upon physi-
| ology whose inspiration may have ranged
| from witchcraft to the Immoral pathol-
| ogy.
| seeking of cause of "a melancholy In a
| blackening of the bile, are lamiliar III
| stances of this.
At the risk of repeating what should be
| well known, for IL is now taught In pri-
| mary schools. II will be necessary to give
short resume of the way In which food
| stuifs are classified. and how and when
each class should be consumed.
| There are five of these classes name
ly:
First-water; this is the most essential
of ALL for without 1t the vital processes
| rapidly cease. IL Is well known that ship
| wrecked crews and explorers, when de-
prived of food, can live several weeks,
but when without water few days ter
| inmates their lives.
Second-Saline tsalty) substances. These
are as necessary as the former. for though
they are not generally taken deliberately
| and by themselves, they are contained in
| nearly all the materials of our ordinary
| food. The fact that their necessity Is
not sufficiently recognized Is fruitful
| source of many minor ailments; and their
| deprivation for a long time leads to the
diseases which chiefly people our spas and
water cure establishments.
| Without saline substances, water itself
is powerless to take Its part in the vital
processes and the interdependence be-
tween the income and output OF water
and beautiful of the interesting methods
shown by the chemical laboratory of the
| body.
These salines are present in large
amounts in juicy fruits, the more succu-
lent vegetables. the extract OF meat: while
they are present in smaller amounts In
practically every substance eaten by man,
the most notable exception being certain
artihcially prepared starches. where their
proportion Is so small as to be useless.
A class by themselves may be formed
by the phosphates. soluble and insolubie
The chief source of these Is the cereals
and In them they occur chiefly In the
germ or the seed and just within the outer
hus 1on Tns OF brean
whole meal bread there Ii secured. besides
the nutritious elements OF the germ. an
indigestible residue consisting of the in
soluble Of the brand. These are necessary
for all animals except those carnivorous
and man is so constituted to be unable
to maintain good health without a GER
tain proportion OF indigestible substances
, to give bulk to the contents of his intes-
tine. He Is an omnivor, and his place
in the animal kingdom. with regard to
dietic habits, liz between that of ruminants
like the OK on the one hand and the
felidae on the other, His nearest allies
are. dieteticaily considered, the pig and
| the monkey.
The best means to obtain this bulkiness
Is by the consumption of whole cereals
especially Whend ,or tne reslaHe OF .nen'
position only with difficulty. 1t can ~eadily
be understood that the larger the amount
OF easily decomposible matter In the mites
tine, the more difficulty and the less likeli
hood of success will the natural juices
manufactured by the intestine find II
preventing the fermentation always Liable
to occur there unless so neutralized.
!. The best means to prevent salt .tarva'
ton Is to make point OF consuming, al
some sScculent fruit or veg Seabis. IN.
insures a saline food, so 10 speak. Gnt
! when this Is followed by water foo:
,, ny Of the body a publication similar
; though on smaller scale. to t1c ont
! effected by, course. of treatment at
. mineral well and analogous - the clean
, sing of the skin by water after the for
eign substances we wish 20 remove hsv'
. taken possession of the soap, we e.mpicye'
or on a par with the removal of dust on
floor after 1t has been taken up by thu
wetted tea leaves. The water should b.
/ taken not less than an hour after tn
salines, and no large meals should b
, | eaten either before or after the procedure
for at least four hours.
Third-NItrogenous or nroted sub
5 stances These are familiar as the chic
3 constituent of flesh and eggs. They &c
, | cur also in large amounts ir the seeds o
: legumnous plants, such as peas, beans
' | lentils. Cereals contain protai1s In fai
g amount. The glutinous part OF wheat 4
e of this nature.
t About one-quarter of our total foo
/ should be of this kind. Most people o
{ | the Weather classes exceed this. Tn
Y results of this excess are well known.
Neglecting water, which is present II
| more or less amount in all foodstuffs ar
= individual should consume for each por
= tion of lean meat, which consists practi
$ cally entirely of proteids. three times IL
Y quantity of other food stuffs such as veg
: etables. cereals, etc. The proted presen
r In these has TO be allowed for in add
5 | ton, so that the amount of flesh and eR
. food consumed daily should always b
4 considerably less than one-quarter of tn
. total solid food taken. When the safet
{ point is exceeded. the system" goes on
$ on strike. as 1t were; instinct comes t
I the rescue and all food Is refused until tn
I bodily processes in course of time adius
themselves. This is signalized by return
: Of appetite and disappearance of the feel
. ings of tiredness, disnclination for exer
t ton either bodily or mental and genera
D disgust with life, which invariably &C
D company the condition.
S The liability to suffer in this way varie
2 much in different individuals and In tn
iuenced very considerably by physical eX
7 ertion, which may prevent or at least de
: lay the condition for long periods of tim
: by powerfully stimulating the circulatio
I OF the blood and lymph. This was full
e explained in previous article. A predis
e posing factor Is the breathing of bad all
, deprivation OF oxygen, combined with tn
, rebreathing of poisonous products fror
: the lungs, having n most pre1udicial effeC
J. on the changes which take place in tn
I food which has entered our blood and thu
q has become a part of ourselves. Tn
e means OF obviating this was fully ex
| planned previously.
I Fourth-The starches and sugars 9TH
carbo- hydrates). These are the heat-giv
$ ers and energy producers The body ha
n often been compared to an engine, an
Q these are It's fuel Excess Is felt onl
Y when so great as to choke the fires an
z this is hard to attain, because digestio
e generally fails before that point
r reached. But habtual daily consumr
Q tion of these substances In slight exces
e leads to the flabbiness and excessive col
: pulence seen conspicuously In so man
G women when their first youth has passed
e This tendency is greatly aggravated b
the lack of Oxygen which want OF phys
i ical exercise OF an active nature entail
: 1t IL well known that a horse In full har
= work can consume an amount OF foo,
u and. indeed cannot do good work withor
y II, which would inture him materially
!, standing In the stable all day or even dc
:, ing light work.