The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-24
NO BREAD FOR Her
Hrs. T. S. Lyon Startles Topeka
Club Women.
Puts "StatF Of Life on a Plane
With Beer.
TAKES NOVEL POSITION
Food Should Not Be Cooked, She
Says.
Traces Domestic Unhappiness to
Preparation Of heals.
TAKES NOVEL POSITION

Cooked eggs are poisonous ashes"
Ordinary bread has all the bad eff
! fects of beer"
1.-THE dbrous portions OF uncooked
food are Intended to pass through the
4 alimentary canal and sweep 1T clean
These are a few Of the new ideas
which were advanced by Mrs. Thomas
/ S. Lyon, ia a paper before the Nautilus
club Jew days ago. paper which
has set ali the women on College nil
/ to talking, and may sVart soma inter
esting reforms in the culinary depart
ment Of west side families.
Mrs T. S. Lyon Is not only an ad-
/ vocate Of the uncookad food idea. but
she practices what she breaches. And
4 it seems to agree with her. She is "a
remarkably well preserved and hne-
4 looking woman. And she has been
eating uncooked foods exclusively for
a comparatively short time.
Some of Mrs. Lyons cheor!es, q s. pre-
scented in the paper before she Nautilus
club-a club COMPOSED of some of the
/ leading women Of the Washburn col
/ le~e iEhborh ood-were so decidedly
unique that the staid and dignifled club
women were taken OF their feet. They
laughed. And Mrs. Lyon herself Is
said to have Joined in. But she be-
lieves she is on the right track to health
and long life. She is an advocate of
+ the simple life" in all its modern
I grandeur.
/ Bread" said Mrs. Lyon, ''ereates in
4 the human organization the same set
Of conditions that is created in the pro-
/ duction of nearly all Intoxicating bev-
I erages; therefore what seems to be the
natural appetite for intOxicants Is a
false cry Of perverted nature first Gre
/ nd in
/ bread"
Mrs. Lyon presented some sample
menus, showing exactly what people
would have to eat in case they should
/ adopt the uncOoked food idea. Her
/ paper was as follows:
Human bodies, like all other living
bodies, are composed of a multitude
of tiny living cells.
When we use the body these cells
wear out. and need replenishing.
/ We do this by eating foods which
/ contain cells. 1t Is better to take these
4 living cells in their natural condition
than to take them after they have been
destroyed by cooking.
i In the one case, they fill the con-
( sumner with new vitality, in the other
with disease and sooner or later cause
1 death.
If high degrees OF heat are applied
[ to these food cells they are coRgulated,
/ just the same as the white of an egg is
/ when boiled.
No one would try to exist upon thor
oughly cooked eggs. as an exclusive
diet.
The value of the cells is DESTROYED
and the ash which remains is poison
Gus.
The hbrous or woody element Of food
is changed from its natural condition
by cooking. The 11brous portion cor
responds to the tough portion Of steak.
It gives definite shape to the complete
"a fr1a tat
Of this and is not intended by nature to
be absorbed In the human alimentary
canal.
1t is intended to pass through and
act as a broom to sweep the canal
clean.
If this matter is cooked. it loses its
i broomlike quality and becomes easily
soluble by the liquids of the human or
ganizatiOn. The inorganic elements en-
ter the blood, circulate through the
system. settle IN the arteries and veins,
deaden the nerves producing exactly
the same stiffening that they produce
4 cooked. The body loses its feasibility,
the arteries lose their plia ability, the
+ nerves lose their power of carrying i'm
pressions, the spinal cord becomes
hardened, the tissues throughout the
body contract and the human being
become prematurely old.
+ In other cases it accumulated as
81 concrettOns in one or more of the in
I around the valves of the heart
The next and last element of food
is the inorganic or chemical portion
It does not occur in food in a free con
dillon, but always in conjunction with
one of the preceding elements.
Be- applying heat to the living calls
Of food they are destroyed, causing
i the starchy matter to be more solu-
Bile, the fatty matter becomes a local
iritant the hbrous matter is changed
from its natural state to a poison: the
inorganic elements of food are red1c-
ed from an organic combination to an
/ inorganic condition.
1t is better to take food as nature
created it because there is an organ
/ in the body to handle every element
! found in food. This IS not true wnen
/ 1t is cooked Raw food can be found
in uniform condition all over the
world
The cooked product varied in Zach
house you enter. The raw food can
be procured easily and Is cheap. Tho
cooked element Is hard to procure, ex-
pensive and without nutrimenf.
/ The most learned and advanced
thinkers OF every civilized country are
gradually turning their attention each
/ year to the food question to ascertain
/ the cause Of disease and its cure; it
/ will be but a few years until the ugut
of the worlds greatest minds win be
/ turned full and fair upon the material
/ out of which neen and women are
! made, and the immutabie laws of Ma
ture VIII be their star by day and
pillar Of fire by night"
The food question will then become
a science.
Men Should Live 200 Years.
Why is disease so common and per-
feet health so rare2
Animals who live upon natural food,
live from FIVE to seven times as long as
It takes them to develop. Man who is
fed upon cooked food does eKceed dinghy
well If he lives three times as long as
It takes him to develop. He natures
at about 4 years-he ought to live to
be zoo years old. but he drops into
his grave at s, while in his youth.
The reason must be in consideration
of the material from which his body is
constructed He must be what his
/ food has made him.