Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-26
ARE LIGHT EATERS
NOW FRENCH AUTHORITIES AD-
NIT THEY'RE RIGHT.
The Yankees of the East Have Scored
Another Victory-The Starva-
ton Cure.


onies In Paris, specialist OF nerves. govt,
uric acid alcohol and drug addctions and
nutrition.
Where does the news come from?'
asked
ut comes straight from the place Of the
school of medicine. from the fountain head
OF French physiology, from Armand Gau-
tier
81 beg your pardon" said. II thought
you spoke of a Japanese victory?
81 do" answered DR.. Jennings. Il speak
OF the great Japanese victory of the
hour"
"The war? Not at all. Armand Gautier.
professor of medical chemistry in the Paris
faculty of medicine, has just pronounced
in favor of the Japanese Psychologists in
their dispute with the Germans on the daily
ration of albuminoids and heterogeneous mat
ter needed by man to keep his body in re-
pair. Armand Gautier fixes 1t at 10
grams q ounces). DR.. Bardet OF the
Pasteur Institute asks only 60 grams.
Yet when in 1889 Kumagawa declared THAI
grams of albuminous matter per day what
a howl went up!'
II didn't hear it, said. what is all
this about? Who Is Kumagawa? What
have the Japanese to do with the question
or scientific alimentation?"
Quite as much as they have to do with
Ieplltu the physician or the English
speaking folks of Paris. Il suppose you
have heard that the Japs are remarkable
peopieI They will make you an elegant
appendicitis opera ton in Tokyo. The babies
OF Nagasaki. when they need it. receive
ant1-diphtheritic serum injections. Why,
kitasato. Japanese doctor, was with
Behring. one of the creators of serotherapy
The same kitasato disputes with Yersin.
the discovery of the pest bacillus And II
the bacillus of dysentery was discovered by
Chantemesse and Vidal. 1t nevertheless
pears the name of a Jap-the bacillus of
Shlga. You see those astonishing little
Yankees of the orient have learned no less
rapidly in western medicine than In western
artillery"
(which brings US to the latest Jananese
victory" l said
A Vegetarian People.
Certainly" said DR.. Jennings You
Know that the Japanese are vegetarian
people? They nourish themselves almost
exclusively with rice, with lots of fruit
when they can get it. nuts for dessert and
dried fish for gluttony, or, you might say,
to intensity nutrition! Now, here Is the
question. Rice is supposed to be far from
complete food. Among all the cereals it
Is one of the least rich in heterogeneous and
fatty matter"
We need three kinIs of fuel" 1 said.
, heterogeneous. substances. or albuminoids:
starchy substances and fatty substances"
Exactly" replied the modern Carnaro
fOho"iS iHc great HERMAN authOrltleS,
psychologists have demanded for mans
daily nutrition between no and 100 grams
or alouminoids, and at least four times
that amount OF fatty and starchy SUBJ
stances. Now observe. in race the pro-
portion Of these substances is such that
10 give himself 100 grams Of albumiroids
the Japanese soldier ought to cat almost
o. eight pounds OF cooked rice
He couldn't do it," 1 explained The
mere weight of ii in his stomach would
handicap the Japanese soldier"
or course he doesn't" replied DIR. Jen-
nipgs. Nevertheless time out of mind
countless generations of Japs, living on
their scientifically insufficient daily rations
of rice. have continued their race, robust
IT'S Japanese puzzle"
Cause and Effect.
How have those little Yankees of the
orient been able to free Themselves from
the laws fixed by western science? Only
two answers are possible" continued DR..
Jennings EITHER the Japs are built differ
entity from Europeans or else European
science has been In error on the question
OF nutrition. 1t is said that the laps have
longer intestines than we have. But here
Is another question Has nature given
them a long intestine for the special pur-
pose of enabling them to live on less than
eight pounds per day of cooked rice; or is
II the fact of their living on an insufficient
quantity of rice that has heightened their
intestine
And the late Japanese victory already
referred to?" l suggested
why, ii is the admission of the latter
alternative by the Psychologists of the
Parts faculty. Note that for a couple of
thousand years the Japs got on very well
without weighing their vegetarian diet
They did not know they were not eating
enough to satisfy Professor Pettenkofer
But as soon as they had absorbed western
physiology and chemistry. they set about
Justifying themselves-to prove that their
Insufficient VACata bile diet a vvo
sufficient. and that the European calcula-
lions must be erroneous"
Now l saw why DR.. Jennings was so
tubilant over the japanese victory. Every
English-speaking person In Paris knows
him as the apostle Of vegetarianism and
light feeding.
How did the Japs Justify themselves7,
1 asked.
By Experiment.
by scientific chemical-physiologica ex-
periments," he answered. TN 1880 the
researches OF kumagawa. made in part on
his own body. established that the daily
ration OF albuminoids of between no and
10 grams demanded by Volt and Petten-
kofer is enormously too much, and that
with between fifty and fifty-fve grams of
albuminoids per day an adult in good
health may not only repair his daily losses
but even store up little reserve / have
proved the same thing in my own body
know. L know" I replied; You eat
tatoes and milk for dessert"
With trtie of butter for dissipation"
he added with self-indulgent benevolent
smile. During the past twenty years I
have seen the thing coming" he continued
They have been obliged to diminish by a
half their estimated ration of nitrog enous
matter. And now. today. DR.. Armand eau
tier comes out frankly and fearlessly de-
claring his exhaustive experiments to prove
conciusively that man needs no more than
eighty grams per day of 1t. / have told
you that the Pasteur Institute, by the
mouth OF DIR. Bardet has proclaimed for
even less-sixty grams per day. While as
for that other physiological chemist, Dr.
Pascault. who leads the Paris crusade
against the present meat-eating horror. he
has proved that an adult-arthritic (rheu-
matic) ii is true-can very we'll get on with
twenty-four grams OF albumiuoids per
day
All of which comes to whaty' asked
1t proves that the proportion of album
inoids can be reduced to something pretty
Insignificant. so long the two other va
rteties OF food matter-fatty and starchy
substances-are furnished In sufficient
quantity. In word. 1t Is the triumph Of
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