The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-10
PLAYS GOVERNMENT EXPERT
4 FOoD-EATING INTERVIEW
 WITHExPERT, c. IT. POST.
He PoIishes Of pr. Wiley, the Govern ment Chemist, With Reference to Beefsteak and Milk.

chunks of wisdom about food" said c. W. Post the well-knoWn food maker,
 now in Los Angeles. B.
 "Some States have sso-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 unsuspecting | public believe they are reading great
 masses of truth, whereas, to the practi- cal food man the mistakes these experi- | mentors make, and the laundering con- clusions, are frequently most Imaginable. They become tangled and mixed up with their profound technical phraseol- ogy and seem unable to reach practical ! conclusions. s8 ..... .s''For instance, Dr. Wiley, Chief of the I Bureau of Chemistry of the United
 States Department of Agriculture, in a
 lecture says: When you buy beefsteak | or milk. you are paying for water.
 Milk is 80 per cent water, beef steak 60 per cent" Ergo-don't eat beefsteak | or drink milk! He apparently forgot l to state that the human body is also | GU DSI Cetll HcilCl s1iCCuSt
 a little of that peculiar liquid each day
 to keep it intact. and nature provides l food wisely blended. ,ss.., ... .
 'Then he proceeds to say that Ameri- cans eat too much meat, That is one ! of the few practical things he does say But observe his peculiar process of in- duction when ile cites the Japanese as
 a reason for not eating meat, saying: | ''Their diet of rice makes them shorter | and harder to hit in the war, and they I don't have So much to carry around
 with them Remarkable conclusion! | 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 compen-
 sate man for going through life a | dwarf!
 'FThen. follows another glorious tri- kbute to science: Hay fever is no more nor less than the result of over eat 1 ing He does not explain whether he
 means over-eating of meat or hay. 1. Huh! &5.. t-s.. . .... "A short time ago the doctor an nounced to some reporters that in 1 his experiments he had discovered | that almost all of the tomato catsups
 were charged with sallicylic acid, which | is detrimental to the human system, but he would be easy on the catsups, for the astonishing reason that they
 needed preservative or they would
 spoil" ..s' 1. a.The good doctor says some sensible things, fortunately. He advises the people to eat less meat and not qSite
 so much food altogether.
 Tt is a Well-established fact that
 Americans, as a rule, are inclined to I oyereat rather than 'under-eat.
 l '.He advises against the use of nitrog- l enous foods, and then contradicts him.
 self by giving his own diet, his break
 fast being made largely of eggs, heavy l with nitrogen, and he includes a glass
 of milk, which he had previously warned people against because it is 80 | per cent water.
 Then he says in reply to a question | about modern breakfast foods, that the
 old-fashioned mush is just as good and
 costs less
 Tt seems humiliating for a man in | his position to make so many conflict l ing statements and expose himself to the criticism of even an office boy con-
 nected with some of the practical food concerns of the country, inasmuch as
 any one of our office boys could tell him
 things he has yet to learn about food, | particularly this 'old-fashioned mush, 1 made from corn meal or wheat or oats, which consists of 8 heavy percentage
 of raw starch, and the way 1t is ordi- | narily prepared requires somewhat unusual strength of digestive or gans to transform that starch into
 a kind of sugar, that it absolutely
 must be turned into by the body before it can be assimilated, and if the
 body is deficient in power, part of
 that starch remains undisgested, pass ing down through the intestines, where, 1 in the moisture and warmth of the body it rots, creating gases and caus- l ing various forms of intestinal disease; 1 very certainly the cause, in many cases, 1 of peritonitis or appendicitis: therefore | it is entirely plain, even to the layman, 1 that if the eater does not perfectly l uISSSL dli u lllio IdWt StetlClly lOOuJ ilS I cannot extract from the food the ne- 1 cessary calories and the strength and
 nourishment that the food really con I tains; whereas when wheat and barley are prepared by skillful cooking, so that | the starches are transformed into sugar, and thus presented to the stomach in a predigested condition, l practically all of the nourishment of | the food is made use of by the body, l greatly to it's benefit.
 q would be very glad indeed to de lposit ten thousand dollars, or twice
 that amount against a like sum put up
 yb Dr. Wiley or any of his associates,
 and we will proceed to feed individuals
 on the raw starch food, the 'old-fash-
 toned mush,' which he so glibfy an-
 nounces as the equal of modern break fast foods, and if we do not obtain
 better results by my method than he
 does by his, the total sum will be paid lover to him or to any charity that he
 may designate.
 'The good doctors opportunities for
 departments and resultant conclusions
 have been narrow and confined to a | few persons. We have been supplying food for literally millions of people, all over the world, for a good many years past, and we receive each month re- ports from people, reaching up to thou | L1..