The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-18
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER MONDAY NOVEMBER 9O

III the CHdT3cLer or ll0 ADoN ' +- practice of thorough masti1at.on lea the men unconsciously to adopt sim pier diet and one with a less amount of msat and eggs. This result has been found usually to 1oi:oT py those who have adopted thorough mastieG- ton.
 While there is serious question whe- ther man was originally or ought now toa be absolutely vegetarlaan mod4rh science has made it clear th1t e ts far too much nitrogenous feo1 such as meat and eggs Prof. Ch.ttendeA's work has put the science Of d'etetics on an entirely new basis It has, how ever, nothing in common with the vegetarian cult except that it advo- cates g reduction in the u7e of fl sh foods. We have all le9n tau-h at
 meat gives strength, and trairers, for athletic events hays alNa 5 given a great deal of beef to ter c In order to test the corEoctless 0 this
 opinion, and to test the comparative endurance of those who used meat and eggs in abundance and tho. c who us
 them spapingly or net at . !, al eg-
 pertinent was mace wtta 10 wi n
 subjects, about half of whom We're Y 'le
 students, and half, other persons in
 various parts cf the country. Those tests were gyinlas ic te ts var O. 8
 kinds, the most stIlk ng bling perhaps
 what is called de p knse lend ng,
 which consists in top ng and "a sinS
 ones stil asain TlAout n ng as
 often as pcs 54ble. Il was foa { tlat
 those who us d mat and cggs re T.
 could in fsw cases do t e ,o p re-
 boaains r. ere than zoo tire, Tn tae;
 some of them fainted p-Iole Il UT
 could be reached and oth gs Souaa
 themselves physically un1lle to ri 0 to
 ho standing p9stIc Se ra2caing
 much smaller. asu'e So iatigled " re
 they that they had to be aided in das- ccndlnG the gymnas nm stars after tho
 test, for on the first step when their
 knee was tont, tie s.eel th left was
 insufficient to prevent ,her failing
 down
 But though the heavy meat and egg
 enters, exco9t in two or three clses,
 were usua.ly una4le tc co the d2ep l2rea bending noEe than 50j times, the case was altogether Ifforent with the
 other group who ate these f5ods spar
 ingly None of these believed th2m-
 selves injured by the test and most of
 them were not only able to excged inc
 zoo mark but a. large number accom-
 plshed the feat 1000 times or noge
 One Yale student who had eaten TO meat at all for two years did the deep
 knee bending 1,S0O times, after which instead of having to be assisted down
 staire as did his meat eating competi1
 tors, he ran several times around the
 gymnasium track ana walked up East
 Rock ard Heck
 Few persons realize whether their en-
 durance is great or small until 1t is ac- tually tested We are far more oonsc- ious of our strength than of our en- durance, and strength and endurance must not be confounded. The subjects in the experiments. which have been mentioned were not in general any stronger by reason of the thorough mastication or the lowering of the con- sumption of meat and eggs; 1t was l their endurance that was conspicuous ly greater To distinguish strength ard endurance, we may say that thu : strength of muscle is measured by . the utmost force 1t can exert once, It's endurance Is measured by the number of times it can repeat given exer- tion involving a certain fraction of lts . strength.
 . Most of us are, fir more interested in e improving our ehdhranoe than improy- = ing our strength.S
 T The benefits which working men . might obtain from the practice of ra- q tional dietetics as well as of other hy- C gene in rldding Themselves of fatigue . and sickness lis incalculable.
 = A limited number of special invita- . tions have been issued for the local ad. 0 visory committee of the committee of n one hundred Under the auspices oi
 the local advisory committee, a large . membership will be enrolled for the e American Health league, a national or - ganzation, less than two Asenths old :, and now numbering 5000 members 7. Among acceptances already received u for membership on the local advisory - committee are Lewis H. English, j. c y schwab, Samuel p, Dibble, Mrs. Fred 5 erick J, Kingsbury, jr, Burton Mans. l. field, Lee McClung, C. W. Pickett, Mrs
 Frank c. Porter, HerbertS E. Smith n Thomas Hooker, John W.bAlling Vii y liam H. Farnam, George D. Watrous e Russell H. Chittenden, Artemus li Haynes, Rev. Isaiah W. sheath, Rev Y Anson Phelps Stokes, .jr, Frederick M n Burgess, Charles s. Bodwell, Rev 1t Francis Brown, Rev. Charles Ray Pal It mer, N. G, Osborn.