The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-16

similation and absorption OF the body
is plunged into more and more distress
ing conditions OF disorder and break
down. Constructed on the principle Of
furnace, the body in order to trans
form its nourishment into heat and en-
ergy requires for a proper combustion
an adequate access to oxygen. And as
in the case of a furnace an oyercharge
of fuel shuts off the supply of oxygen
and thereby causes the fire to shoulder,
SO in similar way the flow and ex-
change Of vital energy in the body is
suppressed to minimum when the in
diVidual oTerloads his digestive appa-
ratus with food. II. We are DESTROYS of
keeping our bodies at the highest mark
Of perfection and power We must re-
frain from choking the fires of life
by pouring into our physiological fur
mace an excess of all kinds of combus-
tiDle or incombustible material. In
place Of burning with the clear, lam
bent flame of perfect health and vigor,
the fires" under such management
will turn into smoking, smouldering
ash heaps, productive of neither heat
nor energy. IT,
chen there is another danger which
the individual in hts present exposure
must guard against. Enslaved by his
tyrannous appetite, he has, weakened
his power of diseernment, and as a con-
sequence commits the fatal mistake OF
separating in halves and fragments
what nature has prepared and turned
out as whole and integral compounds.
Not satisfied with the perfect eombus-
ton of proteids, starch and sat which
the grain in its natural integrity pre-
sents, man in his unreason, by sitting
the flour, ruptures this integrity and
thus distrubs the balance of natures
constructive processes.
NEED OF EATING RIGHTLY.
The maintenance of life and health
requires of the individual not only to
eat, but to eat rightly. In the meta0o-
'lism of our body is found a condition
known as the nitrogen equilibrium !,
which means that within a given peri
cd Of time the system has taken up an
amount of heterogeneous food equal to
the same amount of nitrogen used up
and eliminated during similar length
of time. Hence, a shortage in the as
sets of this vital economy WiIlif proc
tracted-unavoidabIy lead ct bodily
decline and ruin.
Starch and fat generate heat and EN-
ergy, while protefds heterogeneous food
stuffs) supply material for the upbuild-
ing and repair Of the tissue. Hence it
becomes at once apparent that a pro-
tracted deficiency in the nitrogen sup
ply means breaking up Of structural
tissues-the muscles and bones of the
body. AS long as We heed natures in
structions and use the foodstuffs In
their simple. natural combination, the
problem Of striking the physiological
balance is easily solved; but the flour
sitting process separates the nitrogen
.eous elements from the starchy, leav-
ing us the latter Wherewith to carry on
the repair of our bones and lmusces.
The same abnormal conditions are IN
troduced in extracting and condensillg
sugar and salts. Fl we limited our use
of these condiments to the extent they
prevail in the fruit, grain and vegetar
bile, the balance Of physiological waste
and repair would be easily maintained.
But by extracting the sugar from the.
vegetable and the salt from the mineral
kingdom. and introducing them as fun
damental ingredients in our diet, we in
augurate abnormal processes of pl1ysio-.
logical activity, which means that we
suppIant the unity and integrity ot ma
ture's foodstuffs with the diversity and
imposition Of an artificial and unwar-
ranted separation.
The effect Of this interruption OF ma
lures methods Is manifest in host Oh
metabolic disorders of which the most
formidable are those that come within
the group Of liver and kidney derange-
naents. n
DR.. Paul Bert the famous French
Ephysiologist, has experimentaIly denon-
strated that dog fed exclusively on
water will sustain life longer than d.
dog fed on bread Of sifted flour. And
the reason is evident, for water, which
in itself contains a large percentage of
life supporting elements, has the power
to maintain the metabolic balance of
the dog, and enable him successfully to
defy dissolution for quite a number of
days. On the other hand, the dog put
on the white bread diet, by his exclli-
sive feeding on starch, subjects his liv-
er to formidable strain, with no ac-
cess to proteids for the repair of. its
used up tissue. Hence in this case dis
solution Is actually fastened
HUNGER A NERVOUS ACT.
Hunger is a nervous act. When the
stomach has run empty its motion
ceases, and the nerve Examinations in
the gastric walls, stimulated by the
accumulated seeretions of the gastric
glands, send irritations to spinal cord
and brain per pneumo- gastric nerve
This irritation is interpreted by the i'm
dividual self-consciousnes in terms of
hunger, the latter varying In degree
and intensity according to the intensity
with which consciousness responds to-
the gastric stimulation. Hence the diff
ference in strength of appetite and.
hunger in individuals of normal health
is to be found in the nervous. rather
than in the digestive, system; in the
state of consciousness, rather than in
the state of physiology Persons whose
minds are engaged in schemes and pro-
jects of general interest ignore the
pleasures of the table; while others,
again whose minds are constantly abb