Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-10
SCORES GOVT EXPERT.
A Food-Eatins Interview with Expert
c. w. Post.

ut would be pitiful if it were not RI
diculOus. the spectacle of some pfofes-
sional men when they let out great
chunks of wisdom about food. said {.
w. Post. the well-knOwn food maker.
now in Los Angeles.
For instance. DR.. Wiley. Chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry of the United
States Department of Agriculture. in r
lecture says: when you buy beef
steak or milk. you are paying for Wa
ter. Milk is so per cent. water. beef
steak so per cent Ergo-don't eat
beefsteak or drink milk. He apparent
~ forgot to state that the human body
is also about so per cent. water and
reeds quite little of that peculiar Ii
quid each day to keep it intact. and
nature provides food wisely blended.
Then he proceeds to say that Amer
leans eat too much meat. That is one
of the few practical things he does say
But observe his peculiar process of in
duction when he 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
don't have SO much to carry around
with them Remarkable conclusion,
Cont eat any meat. You may have to
go to war sometime and it will not be
SO easy to hit You II you are simply
rice eater. That hope should COM
pensate a man for going through life
q dwarf!
"Then follows another glorious trib-
ute to science: Hay fever is no more
| nor less than the result of over-eating.'
He does not explain whether he means
cvereating of meat or hay. Huh.
The good doctor says some sensi-
Bile; things, fortunately. He advises
the people to eat less meat and not
quite so much food altogether.
at is a we'll established fact that
Americans, as Il rule, are inclined to
over-eat rather than under-eat.
He advises against the use of nj
| trogenous foods. and then cOntradicts
| himself by giving his own diet his
breakfast being made largely of eggs
heavy with nitrogen. and he includes
| Il glass of milk. which he had previous
| ly warned people against because it is
| SO 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
ut seems humilatrg for man in his
position to make so mlny conflicting
| statements and expose himself to the
| criticism of even an office boy connected
| with some of the practical food concerns
of the country, inasmuch as any nn"--of
| o,lr Office boys could tell HIM things he
has vet to learn about food particularly
/
| corn meal or wheat or oats. which con
| SiSts of Il heavy percentage of raw starch.
| and the way it is ordinarily prepared re-
| u,lircs somewhat unusual strength Of
| digestive organs to transform that starch
| into Il kind of sugar. that il absolutely
| must be turned into by the body before
it can he assirilated, and il the body is
| deficient in power Il part of that starch
! remains undigeSted. passing down
| through the :ntestines. where. in the
moisture and warmth of the body. il rntS
| creating gases ana causing various forms
of intestinal disease; very cert,iinly tn.
cause, in MANY cases. or pcritonitiS or APP
p@ndicitis. therefore it is entirely plain
even in tho layman. that if the eater does
not perfectly digest all of this raw
starchy food he cannot extract from IT.,
| food the necessary Galleries and tn.
strength AMI nourishment that the food
| really contains: whereas. whcn whe:,,
and barley are prepared by skillful cook.
irg, so that the Starches are transformed
into sugar. and thus presented to til,
stomach in a predigested condition prtc
tically all of tn" nouriShment of the fooc
is made use of by the body. greatly to its
benefit.
Il would he very glad indeed to dcposi,
ten Thousand dollars. or twice thai
amount against a lik. sum put up by Or
Wiley or any of his associates. AMI W.
will proceed to feed individuals on tn.
raw starch food. the old fashioned
nush, which he SO elibly announces a.
he equal Of modern breakfast foods, and
II We do not obtain better results by my
method than he does by his, the total
sum will be paid over to HIM or to any
CHARITY that he may designate
me good doctors opportunities for
experiments and resultant conclusions
have been narrow and confined to a few
| persons We have been supplying food
for literally millions of people. all ovey
me world. for good Many years past
an" we receive each month reports from
people. reaching up to thousands in
number, giving the details of condition
and the result of various foods. including
coffee. which is not n food. 1t is entirely
SAFE 70 say that for every one cas-. that
Irr. Wiley has experimental uron and
therefore drawn his conclusions from,
our experience has been with s6rom one to
FIVE thousand
1T is an old story. this tanglr of theor-
lists. as compared with the hard practical
| Solute practice.
AS cereal food maker it might seem
that my interests would oppose meat; hut
| common. every day experience teaches
most plainly to any real food expert that
| some meat once a day is of great imDArt-
ance. then let the starchy food be skill
! fully prepared and the combination of
| easily digested food elements will put
the user in good. vigorous physical con-
| dition, strongly in contrast with some of
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