The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-04-12
FLAWS GOVT EXPERT
A Food Eatine Interview Win Expert
c. W. Post.

1T would be pufN if 1t were not /
ridiculous, the spectacle of some pro- /
fcssional men when they let out great /
chunks Of wisdom about food, said c. w /
Post the we'll known food maker, now m !
Los Angles.
Some States have so-cdled expert T,
.lont stations whore the wise men in the
erlploy of The state make some expert I
ments and then give the results TO the
reporters and the 1msuspccting public |
believe they are reading great masses of
truth, whereas to the practical food man
the mistakes these eXperimonters make, /
and the blundering conclusions, are FREE
Guenuy most laughablc. Thoy become I
/ tangled ana mixed up with their pro-
found technical phraseoiogy and seem
Unable TO reach practical conclusions.
For instance. DR. Wiley, Chief OF the
1 bureau " chemistry Of the United
States Department OF Agriculture. In a
lecture says: When you buy beefsteak
or milk you arc paying Tor water Mix
IS so per cent water. beefsteak 90 per
! cent Erso-oon eat beeisteak or
drink milk He apparently forgot to
state that the human body Is also abous
! 50 per cent water anu needs quite "a lit
| ne of that peculiar liquid each day TO
Keen it intact. and nature provides fooc
wisely blended.
rhcn be proceeds to say that Amen-
cams eat too much meat That Is one Of
the few practical things he does say.
EUt observe his peculiar process of in-
Juction when he cites the Japanese as "a
r,asou for not eating meat, saying
Their diet OF iice makes them shorter
sud harder 10 hit in the war, and they
uon't have SO much TO carry around with
utym." Remarkable conclusion, Don't
eat amy meat. You may have TO go 10
war sometime and it win not DE so easy
tc lit you if you are simply rice eater
1nut nope should compensate "a man for
goiag through life "a dwarf
"rhon follows another glorious tribute
t. science. Hay fever is no more nor
Tess ,h,n tho result Of over-eating lie
docs not explain whether DE means over
eating OF meat or hay. Huh!
u would be very glad indeed 70 deposit
len thousand dollars. or twice that um-
cunt against "a like sum put mp by Or.
WHEY on any Of his associates, and we
VIII procfed TO feed individuals ON the
, raw starch food. the old-mshioned mush,
wlieh he 80 glibly announces as the
coum of modern breakfast foods, and u
We do nor obtain better results by my
8 method than ne does uy his, the total
8 son, WIN be paid over 10 him or 70 any
charity that he may designate.
"The good doctors opportunities for
b experiments and resultant conclusions
, rave been narrow ana confined TO few
II,rsous. We have been supplying food
for literally millions OF people. al over
th, world for good many years past
and we receive each month reports from
,ople. reaching up to thous2lds iu
number. giviug the details of condition
ana tEe result OF various foods iucludine
p conee, which is not % food. 10 is entirely
u safe TO Say ihm for every one case tha'
Lr Wiley has Experimental upon and
therefore drawn h.s conclusions from
C our experience has been with from 0n,
e go dve thoutaud.
'lt is an old story. this tnglo OF thoor-
ISIS. as compared with tht hard practica
d experience and certain conclusions of abb
- solute practice.
- "As Ccrcal-food maker. 90 might seen
r. that n.y interests would oppose meat, Don
common every day experience teacrei
most plainly TO amy real food expert thai
Il some meat oncr "a day IS OF great import
q auce. Then lct the sfarchy food be skill
y folly prepared ana tine combination o
easily y-iigested food clements VIII pu
ti.a user On good vigorous physical con.
di;ion. strongly ln contrast with some o
thc scmi-skolet0ns among these state ant
government theoretical experiments.
Iust one other illustration. Il IS COM
iuonly heard 30 the circles Of these the
oisis that Ilcc is digested in one hour.
This conclusion is reached Iom expert
ueuts where n was shown that th'
h human stomach delivered rive on dow
INTO the duodenum On about sixty min
mes, therefore the conclusion that n wa
q digested The truth is. that the stomach
d Goes not digest rice. but simply throws q
.s cut 70 be digested on down below th'
4. stomach.
. "Iiice fIcQucnNt requires ten to mteei
Hours for digestion. and then 90 rs no
u perfectly deested in thousands Of cases
a l.ut partially denyed and causes an sort
% Of intestinal troubles
n "a little less theory by the theorst
]. and good deal more eo.nmon sense "a
dcvcioped Dy prictlcai. eyts-t-day ex
.e prience wll AID 20 ule longevity ~ on
Ie9ple. Angles rimes