Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
We NEED LESS FOOD
What and How We Should
Eat in Summer.
DIR. WILEY'S ADVICE
WHY AN EXCESS OF MEAT Is
HARMFUL.
Value of a Balanced Ration-Danger
in Ice Water-Tests With
Ptomaines.
DIR. WILEY'S ADVICE
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star
In behalf of both that considerable con-
stitutent of our society who live to eat
and that more numerous but less preten-
tious element who eat to live. scribe
called this week at the federal govern
Inent's free boarding house" to interview
it's boniface-in-chief the noted DIR. Har-
Ney Washington Wiley, who some months
ago was daily featured in the public
prints promoter of the governments
poison squad"
The eternal unftness of names has been
fuel for philosophical Outbursts since man
ceased to be designated by his handicraft
alone. We find the most INDECENT and
humble beggar of the gutter adorned by
the deceivng cognomen of King. while the
very blacklist Ethiop among us is very
often known as White. So it is with the
federal censor of menus There never
was a less wiley man than Wiley None
of the cunning of the mouchard enters
into the tactics which govern his official
pryings into the deceits of our pabulum
mongers. Before ne embarks upon a cru
sade for pure foods he publicly an
Hounces the methods with which he will
show the rascals up and before he feeds
poison-impregnated food to free
boarder" he forecasts the kind of fits
which the latter is liable to fly into when
the poison takes effect.
The Versatile Wiley.
A versatile and many-sded man, this
arch terror of all adulterators, for whom
INSCRIPTIONS food manufacturers and
nostrum makers look under their beds of
nights. He will pound the most profound
theorems into scientific audience NOV
ing all iearers to solemn and grave re-
Election; Will the same evening at a
hsl taf hnn rfJ ,,ttI 1T
contour until the welkin rings with peals
OF laughter. 1t is rumored that the slim
ulatlon of his presence at the tables of
his poison squad" compensated often for
me deIeterious effects of borax or Dor
aclc acid and that certain discrepancies
In favor of the adulterators thus crept
into his reports. Not only is he the
Chauncey Depew of the scientific set but
the poetlaureate of the academicians. His
songs OF Agricultural Chemists" are
but few of his published rhymes The
lutte of the unwary Ware is not half so
sweet as that OF the unwily Wiley.
Nhen the writer sought the S;nrtum
81 DIR. Wiley he was rafting off French
to visitor from Paris. The foreigner
being dismissed. the scribe was intro
uuced. The chemists desk was adorned
ny a bottle of cocktail cherries upon
which had been pasted a fresh label: Ar
t'hcially Colored."
1 have come seeking some guidance
Tor the summer stomach which I under
stand to be a law unto itself" ventured
the man with the note book BY way of
assurance the chemist was promised that
The interview would be put to no extraya
gantly facetous use
i do not object to the Factions arti
''eS winch have been published concern
lhs me. replied the food expert. I'm
iact; ENJOY them hugely These thou
sands OF clippings in this drawer stand
lor as many thousands of hearty chuckles
each OF which has removed me further
from the grave Here was one man of
hn Il a
nipuons or break out into goosefesh at
'he Sleht OF misplaced comma,
Meat Eating and Kidney Disease.
But speaking of the summer stomach"
quoth he, this packing house strike is the
greatest boon which could, perhaps, have
befallen 1t. The fact is that We eat too
much meat especially In hot weather An
excessive meat diet greatly overworks the
Kidneys. If such diet Is prolonged the d.
gestlve organs break down and the undi-
gested food becomes stagnant in the sys-
tenn There is d retention in the blood of
waste products that should normally he
eliminated by tie kidneys The result is
what the physicians call uraemic poisoning
whose symptoms are such as headache nau-
sea or often commissions. and even coma.
The result Is that the Incorporate meat
eater is too often cut off before his time
ISM"
w not Say tnat we should be
tarlans, entirely. For my own part | eat
meat but once a day-with my dinner Our
digestive organs are a combination of those
OF the herbivorous and carnivorous ami
malS. We were evidently intended to eat
both meats and vegetables. but to balance
the diet.
we are engines of which our stomachs
are the furnaces and our food the fuel
The more fuel you pile into the furnace
OF an engine of iron and steel such as
hauls our trains works our factories
the hotter will that furnace grow. But un
der normal conditions the furnaces insid,.
our bodies will produce only such heat as
Is needed In fact, the human body is an
almost perfect thermoStat thcrmostat
is an apparatus for automatically rep,ilat-
Ing temperature. 1t is governed bv a ,her-
mometer. and when the mercury risas nv
falls too much ii sets in motion machinery
which admits cold or warm currents NJ
air. mus a room governed by a thermo-
stat Is kept within certain limits of tenn
perature. Just so in the case of tn, normal
human body. Food is consumed until the
temperature rises to a certain point After
that Is reached the system refuses to digest
more food.
We need less food in summer because
the bodys radiation of heat is greatly re-
a9ced' with normal body temperature
ol ~ degrees we go out into the winters
Tolo. olteh when the air is zero or below
curing such weather the heat of the bodv
is constantly being radiated off into tho
coid ar which is another way of defining
lls6 in
winter hut In summer the air about no &.
20 hot-often hotter than our bodies-that
we radidte little or none of our heat into II
Wheat Better Ration.
There is as much nourishment in
pound OF wheat as in a pound of beef
Wheat is the better food for the working.
man. because II is a balanced ration CON
tanning all three of the principal nutrient
constituents of food. which are protein
carbohydrates and fats. required to pro-
duce heat and energy in the adult and
furthermore, TO build up tissue In the young.
while they are growing When a pound of
meat Is eaten 1t supplies only protein, which
Ia the element which builds tissue we
adults need a certain amount of protein 10
bulld up our waste tissues, but we do not
need nearly so much as does a growing
boy or girl
The average full-grown American daily
consumes seventeen grammes of protein
Inc leading Psychologists believe that
Twelve grammes would be entirely suffi-
Client In other words we should eat about
two-thirds as much as we do Prof. Chit
tenden of Yale University. who recently
reported his new researches to the Ameri-
can Academy. goes even so far as to say
mat seven grammes is sufficient and IL
tfaiS is tyyip