The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-02
WILL EAT SALTPE7[l
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS tn -.
TIE MooTED QUESTIONS '''
Years Experiments In int,n..
Beef-Eating Publlc-one.p.n Az ~
Be Fed on Meat Cured
with Solution,

New York.--For a period NJ ..
six to twelve months a SQUAD n,
orous and healthy men will he ~
subjects upon whom small cor,
,f savants, working in the jntars",
of humanity in general and beet
ers in particular, will test the eso.,
of meat that has been cured v,
saltpeter and other supposedly ip,n.
Gus preservatlves.
This was settled the other A..
when what will be known as tbo :.
tional commission for the invests,
ton of nutrition problems was form
in New York at the Fifth Avenue !.
tel.
This organization will act under n
auspices of the University of mo0,
and it is composed of Prof II \
Grindley of that institution. Prof
H. Chittenden of Yale uniyersi,
Prof. J. j. Abel of Johns Hopkins N,
versity and Prof. A. p. Mathews
Chicago university.
The movement was inaugurated n
Prof. Edmund ]. James of the Univs,
sity of Illinois, who will also take
active part in Its progress. The o,
periments will be carried on al IN
University of Illinois, and it is sal
that they will be the most thorou,
of the kind ever undertaken in m
United States.
There has been great difference
opinion among experts" said Pm
Grindley, "as to the effect of certa
preservatives used in the curing
meat and the commission will dire
its attention first to the determinatIo
Of some of these important question
'rhe first experiments will be to di
cover the effects upon the huma
body of the saltpeter used in curiu
meats.
1T is a we!l-known fact that sal
peter taken in considerable uuantitle
is a poison, but whether the sma
amount consumed by the eating |
cured meats is in any way injurio|
has long been a mooted question.
The data obtained will be OF priu
Importance in aiding the enforcemer
of the present pure food laws and |
the utmost Importance in aiding !
the formulation of further just reg
lations as to the use of this and othe
preservatives in food products"
The "saltpeter squad" as it migi
be called. will be boarded in a specs
ly equipped house In such way ths
the weight Of all foods eaten by eac
man can be accurately determine
and the food completely analyzed.
physician will keep daily record !
the physical condition and health !
each member of the squad.
The diet of half the men will
clude cured meat products now on ID
market containing saltpeter and hI
other half will be fed on a diet eXac
ly similar except that the cured mea
will contain none of the preservj
tives.
Another interesting feature OF Ii
experiments will be that efforts vi
be made to have the men house
pleasantly and their meals so II
sented to them as to eliminate II po
sible the influence of the mental co
dition of the squad on the process
of digestion and nutrition.
1t is the purpose of the comm
sion also to make experiments Of I
similar kind upon the lower animal
so that at the end of the work the d
imals may be killed and thorous
examination made by the most
proved methods to determine the |
1ect of the saltpeter upon the intern
organs connected with the process
OF digestion and assimilation