Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-09
SLERIZES"
DIR. WILEY, FOOD EXPERT, LEG
TUREs AT WoMAN,s COLLEGE.
Mistakes in Diet-Old- Fashioned Mush
and Hominy More Wholesome
and Cheaper.

and Cheaper.
when you go to a grocery and buy beef
steak o: milk you're paying for water, for
the elements of water are predominant in
all our foods. Milk is 80 per cent water
and beefsteak Is 60 per cent water
DIR. w. H. Wiley. chief Of the bureau of
chemistry of the United States Department
Of Agriculture, whose experiments with
poison squad have attracted wide atten-
ton. made this statement in a lecture at
the Woman's College in Baltimore. Md,
Monday afternoon, on "Foods-Their Com
position and Function
And speaking Of milk, he wasn't referring
to the overridden joke on its experiences
under the pump. Milk is so per cent water
when it's milk: what is 1t when 1t has been
water only those who have drunk cam
brio tea as children can know.
Americans Eat Too Much Meat.
DR.. Wiley told his hearers a great many
things which do not agree with the aver
age Americans idea of eating. He said:
Americans eat too much meat. When
you've got great deal of work to do don't
eat lot Of meat Eat fatty and starchy
foods, plenty of potatoes, corn and bread.
Iney DullQ up tissues ana OOn OVeTWOrk
the kidneys Beefsteak and other nitrogen
our foods overwork the body in expelling
them.
When I was a boy I was taught, too,
that the way to make man so that he
wanted to fight was to feed him lot Of
meat. The present war between Russia and
Japan Is showing that the man who eats
least meat-for the Japanese live largely
upon rice-can do the best fighting. They
are not overworking their bodies in the d.
gestion of food.
Their diet makes the Japanese shorter
and harder to hit and they don't have so
much to carry around with them. If had
charge of the foot ball squad of my uni
versity-Harvard-I would see that they
ate very little meat during their training
period. and I'd see If we couldn't win
game from Yale
Americans Eat Too Fast.
DR.. Wiley says that eating too fast is
another evil of American life. and (what
sounds more strange) that the reason for
this Is not much that we fail to prop
erly masticate our food under such condi-
tions because when we eat fast we eat
more than we should An average man
requires 5000 calorics of food a day If
we could measure the amount of food we
ate before each meal we would be more
healthy than we are, but nature, taking
care of this. has placed our appetite as the
register of what is good for us. When we
eat fast the balance the appetite should
strike is lost, and We eat more than we
want.
when spring comes on" said DR.. Wiley,
remember that your body does not re-
quire as much food as 1t did during the
winter and moderate your appetite accord
ingly.
Hay fever is nothing more or less than
the result OF overeating."
There was a general laugh and DR.. Wiley
corrected himself
Should Eat Less Food in Spring.
Spring fever, I should have said he
laughed. at is a languor which comes
from overlooking the stomach during the
time when the body doesn't have to fight
the rigors Of winter, when there is too
much waste matter in it.
And don't drink distilled water. Drink
water as it comes out of the earth, with
all its mineral foods, magnesia; etc
Don't eat great deal while you are
working; eat after the work has been
DONE" said DIR. Wiley. You are always
drawing your strength from the food you
the laboring man should make supper his
heartiest meal. so that he would not be
bothered by the labor of throwing off the
waste from a heavy meal while he is work.
ing"
DR.. Wiley was asked by a Baltimore Sun
reporter after the lecture for diet for the
different meals Of the day.
The Doctors Sample Diet.
After what have said there Is little to
add" he replied. For myself, 1 usually eat
a couple of eggs, potato perhaps and
bread and coffee for breakfast. Luncheon
seldom take more than a bowl of soup,
roll and a glass of milk. 1 eat hearty
meal at dinner time and seldom do night
work"
In reply to question. DR.. Wiley said that
the popular idea that the stomach is not in
condition to receive hearty meal atbreak-
fast after its ten or twelve hour fast Is er-
roneous. 1T should then be In condition to
do its best work." he said, but one should
not eat a hearty breakfast, because work
usually follows breakfast.
Should woman's diet be different from
that of a man? Well, l shouldn't say so.
professors eyes twinkled), and 1 don't see
why she. shouldn't eat what man does"
Old-Time Dishes Wholesome.
do you believe in the modern breakfast
foods which are being eaten SO extensive
ly2" the chemist was asked.
His eyes twinkled.
Whats the use of paying so much for
fancy Manner he asked. Whats the
matter with old-fashioned mush, hominy
and all the other old-faShioned things, all of
which are extremely wholesome and much
cheaper? 1 don't eat the modern breakfast
food myself
But they are predigested."
You don't want that. Often the food
which requires the greatest amount Of time
to digest does you the greatest amount Of
good"
How to Keep Young.
AS for the man who is eating some of the
breakfast foods and beans and peas In all
the varieties Of the family, eschewing meat,
with the idea that meat contains poisons
which do him harm, he might as well call
a halt upon himself at once and limit him
self to potatoes, hominy, rice, corn and
bread for so long as he eats the first-named
he is eating chemical matters which, mar
rowed down to the fine point to which DIR.
Wiley takes them, are the real inwardness
of meat" they contain the nitrogen which
Is corroding the innumerable passages
through which his food must pass and
which will make him old before his time
which will "Oslerize" him, as DR.. Wiley
said.
I'm not a crank on dieting said DIR.
Wiley. Il believe in man eating what
he likes, but / believe in a man keeping
young, and he can do this best by avoiding
an excess of nitrogen in his food, and this
nitrogen is contained In meat"
Results of Experiments.
The chemists experiments with the twelve