Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
amount OF indgestible material to keep
the alimentary canal open.
Lump Sugar Will Danish Fatigue

amount OF indigestible material to keep
the alimentary canal open.
Lump Sugar Will Danish Fatigue.
Potatoes and fat meat are the best
food for the laboring man-also sugar and
strip. A lump of sugar will restore elas-
ITCHY to the muscles of a tired man as
promptly as will alcohol. but the advantage
of the sugar is the absence Of a harmful
reaction. Men on forced marches, athletes
and those who make heroic physical efforts
OF any kind. should carry Jumps of sugar
and eat them from time to time. For emer-
gency rations the French and German
armies are now provided with Jumped
sugar.
when greatly prolonged physical exer-
ent in meat. but found in sugars and
starches-should form the preponderate
part of the diet. When the body is in exer-
cise carbohydrates do not produce obesity.
from sugars and starches. The Japanese
on diet mostly of rice. but with a mod
crate proportion of dried fish, can tire out
the American with his preponderate flesh
diet Also the Frenchman. with his excess
OF wheat bread. can endure more physical
fatigue and exertiOn than the meat eater
The old idea that an excessive meat diet is
conducive to physical strength is err
roneous."
One-Sixth Less Sugars and Starches.
But to what extent should we cut down
our diet In summer"
In winter an ordinary man in sedentary
employment needs food producing 5000 cal
cries of heat per day. That same man in
hot weather should get along on 1900 call
cries A calory is the unit Of heat ordi-
narily employed by modern physicists. 1t
is the quantity OF heat necessary to raise
the temperature of a kilogram of water
from zero to degree centigrade. Thus you
see in summer we need about five-sixths
of the heat-producing foods-principally
carbohydrates and fats-which we eat in
winter. OF course, the sedentary man
needs much less than the labOring
man. Whereas, the man taking no ex-
ercise needs 1900 calories in winter the
man at manual labor needs 500 to 500
more"
rs it really dangerous to drink ice wa
ter?"
Water too cold and drunk in large guam
titles chills and congests the coating of the
stomach. Many people disftu or filter their
water to free it from pathogenic germs and
afterward add ice to 1t. not knowing that
the Ice Is just liable to be filled with
germs as is the water. This habit find to
result from the ignorant belief of some
people that so-called microbes cannot live
in Ice; that by bringing water to the freez-
ing point these germs are killed But
freezing produces only suspended anima-
ton in the pathOgenic germs causing our
common diseases. They merely hibernate
In Ice We find some of these organisms
living in the tops of the highest mountains
where the temperature. the year round. is
never below freezing. The best water
cooler on the market has a separate ice
compartment surrounding the water res
ervolr and the ice never touches the water
All drinking water should be distilled or at
least filtered The longer it takes the
water to trickle through "a porcelain filter
the more thoroughly 1t is freed from germs,
as rule.
Are you planning any new experiments
here in the food laboratory?'
New Study of Ptomaines.
Yes. some very important ones. 1t will
De principally directed to the question Of
uhwholesomness resulting from long
periods OF storage and from the consequent
moids which produce ptomaines. Ptomaines
are alkaloid bodies formed from animal or
vegetable tissues during putrefaction or
pS pathogenic bacteria They are toxins
Que to the activity of these Organisms and
belong to the family of serums
we will conduct these experiments in
our htchen and dining room downstairs
Meats, vegetables and fruits are being kept
IN cold storage for periods of from one to
nVe or SIX years. or even longer. My opin-
lon Is that under no circumsta noes shouId
loou be preserved over one year. 1 can
distinguish a cold storage article the min
ule taste 1t, If 1t has gone beyond the
IL.
some varieties of meat are greatly i'm
proved by being kept in cold storage for
some weeks after being killed 1t is not 50.
however with fish and vegetables Fish
sEouid be eaten Just as soon as possible
a1ter being caught. and think that yege-
eaoles ana most fruits should be eaten just
as fresh as possible
congress has given us authority to as
certain the storage limit for each food
article A A0oo
viii you employ another poison SQUAD,
tc eat ptomaines?"
~. VIII feed some people in order to study
=. me lavor or the cold storage foods But
In no case will experiments with ptomaines
De made upon human subjects
Inc newspapers had a great deal of fun
out of your former tests?'
Yes, they did. One journal circulated
ihe Notion that certain chemicals used az
Ileservatives caused beautiful pink cheeks
" 10 date l have received fully 1000 let
tiers from women begging me for the form
ula." JOHN Ell FIR Eth WA TET rC,n