Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-20
TEST OF PEANUT DIET.
Rev. T. ]. Allen Gaining Weight
 After Thirty Days Trial.
VERY WELL SATISFIED so FAR

Aurora (lII.) Clergyman Declares Goo.
 bers Can Be Made Our National
 Staple, Taking the Place of Meat.
 Contends Cooking Spells Peanuts. At the end of thirty days dieting on peanuts Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Allen of Aurora, H., declares he is gaining ill ,, weight and will continue the goober feasting until period of sixty days or more has been covered. He undertook this diet to disprove, a board of health statement that peanuts were injurious, says an Aurora Qll.) correspondent of the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 T am now doing the best mental work of my career" says Dr. Allen. "As for physical exertion, I walk ev- cry day and have turned off ten miles on the road without exhaustion. feel capable of more sustained exertion than have ever performed before, and on the thirtieth day of my peanut diet I am positive that have demon strated the soundness of my theory.
 But there is one thing that should be understood. drink between two and three quarts of lemonade day. I do not think I could keep this up if I did not. The first week of my expert ment I lost ten pounds, and since that time have been slowly gaining. I not only believe I will keep this up to the sixty day limit, but I think I shall continue it after the sixty days, but I shall supplement it with a diet of fruits of some kind.
 T am firmly convinced that an ideal diet can be produced by combining the nutritive qualities of the peanut with wheat. If we could eliminate the starch entirely from our foods we should have an ideal combination. Starch is foreign to the human sys- tem. Peanuts to constitute the chief article of a mans diet should not be cooked. If they are cooked it coagu- lates the albumen, and they are prac- tically poisonous, as albumen when it ID tVuS Suld lCu HcCOllIcS luoOluDlC III wa. ter and is indigestible. ..
 "The greatest mistake we Americans make is in mixing up our various arti- cles of food as we do. For instance, awberries and cream are bad com bination, as is any kind of fruit with milk or cream. The experience of ages has proved that a monodiet is the best thing. For instance, the gladiators were fed exclusively on barley and wheat, while the Scotch, who in some respects are the greatest people on earth, live almost entirely on oatmeal. Oatmeal is very hard to digest, but the Scotch have gradually become accus- toned to it.
 "One of the reasons that the Japa- nese defeated the Russians is because they are monodietsts. In fact, unless we change our system of diet the Mol- golians are going to overwhelm us eventually.
 "It is a very simple proposition to grow enough staple foods to supply the United States. Texas alone could grow enough staple foods to supply this country. They can grow peanuts in Illinois. have a friend in one of the southern counties who grows them, and his children have become so ac- customed to living on them that they sometimes do not come in for their meals.
 hn -nt11l -hn 6ntfn,s fry my experiment than the winter, be- cause it is necessary to keep up more bodily heat than can be done with small amount of peanuts, and the tend ency is to overheat. I eat probably about three-fourths of a pound of shelled peanuts day.
 The analysis of the peanut in con- parison with eggs, meat and milk shows it by far the most valuable arti- cle of diet, and it can be made our na- tional staple. taking the place of meat. There is nothing in meat that we can not get in better form in the peanut.
 "The importance of avoiding wrong combinations of food which cause fer mentation and injurious chemical com- pounds is not generally recognized. So great is the benefit from eating only one food or one class of foods at one time that those men who have lived even on inferior articles of diet have been able to do their daily work well and have even improved in health.
 Food is the vital question. Every farmer knows how to feed his stock to get the best results. but he doesn't know much about how to feed his chl- dren. The study of human feeding has been sadly neglected"
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