Arizona republican., 1905-04-10
PLAYS GOVERNMENT EXPERT.
A Food Eating Interview With Expert
 c. w. Post.
He PoIishes of pr. Wiley the Govern ment Chemist, With Reference
 To Beefsteak and Milk.

Ut would be pitiful if it were not ridiculous, the spectacle of some pro- fessional men when they let out great chunks of wisdow about food,'' said c. w. Post, the well known food maker. now in Los Angeles.
 Some states have so-called experi- ment stations where the wise men in the employ of the state make some ex- periments and then give the results to the reporters and the unsuspectfng public believe that they are reading great masses of truth, whereas, to the practical food man the mistakes these experimenters make, and the blunder- ing conclusions, are frequently most laughable. They become tangled ana mixed up with their profound tech nicaI phraseology and seem unable to reach practical conclusions.
 "For instance. Dr. Wiley chief of the bureau of chemistry of the United States department of agriculture. in | lecture says: When you buy beef steak or milk you are paying for wa ter. Milk is so per cent water, beef steak 50 per cent" Ergo-don't eat beef steak or drink milk He appar- ently forgot to state that the human body is also about so per cent water and needs quite a little of that peculiar
 
 nature provides food wisely blended
 Then he proceeds to say that Amer l jeans eat too much meat. That Is one of the few practical things he does say. But observe his peculiar process of induction when he cites the Japan csc as a. reason for not eating meat, saying: Their diet of rice makes them shorter and harder to hit in the war, and they don't have so much to carry around with them Remarkable con clusion Don't eat any meat. You may have to go to war sometime and it will not be so easy to hit you if you are simply a rice eater. That hope should compensate a man for going through life a dwarf!
 "Then follows another glorious trib- ute to science: Hay fever IS no more nor TO less than result of over eating He does not explain whether he means overeating of meat or hay-Huh. "A short time ago the doctor an nounced to some reporters that iTl his experiments he had discovered that al- most all of the tomato catsups were charged with salicylic acid, which ii detrimental to the human system, but he "owuld be easy on the catsups,' fo the astonishing reason that they need [ ed preservative or they would spoil. "The good doctor says some sensi- bIe things, fortunately. He aovies the pople to eat less meat and not quite so much food altogether.
 'It is a we'll established fact tha Americans, as rule are inclined t' over eat rather than under eat.
 "He advises against the use of nitro
 genous foods, and then contradict
 himself by giving his own dict, hi D breakfast being made largely of eggs
 heavy with nitrogen, and he includes
 glass of milk, which he had preYIousl.
 warned people against because it is $ per cent water.
 , ''Then he says, in reply to question f about modern breakfast foods. that tn , cd d-fashioned mush Is just as good ant :, costs less
 ''It seems hUmiliating for nan il n his position to make so many coniiicC D ing statements and expose himself [ a tEc criticism of even an office boy con
 nected with some of the practical roo Q concerns of the country, inasmucn a : any one of our office boys could te : him things he has yet to learn abou a food, particularlyy this 'old-fashione !, mush.' made from corn meal or whea V or oats. which consists of q hea W Der h centage of raw starch and the way
 is ordinalily prepared requires some v what unusual strength of digestive oI d gans to transform that starc1 into l. kind of sugar, that it absolutely mu. n be turned into by the body before it ca g be assimilated, and if the body is de