The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17
GETTING STOUT
Or Lean by ReguIeting Amount of ..--. Food.
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or beAn ey HeEulstinE Ampunt "t Washington Special to Chicago Record.
 Dr. Harvey W. Wiley. Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the Depart ment of Agriculture: Is authority for than A certain amount of dry foods he will lose in weight and if he eats more he will gain. This will be good news for the fat who want to get thin, and the thin who want to get fat Dr. Wiley says every individual should con sune four and half pounds of solids Sng aSads syerS day g S1ns ss !tiis aniourtt Is above the average. ' TO the House Comnittse on ESpendt- lures of the Department of Agriculture Dr. Wiley said he had never made an investigation to determine the best foods for mental labor, but believed the general opinion. that. particular kinds Of foods nourish particular parts of tho body to he quite erroneous
 Nerve and brain foods are adver- tised. but they are all nonsense. Nor on the contrary, most of them have d degrading effect Arsenic up to n cers taiu. point. bus q fattenlpg effect A raan gains Tn weight for. time and then dies. but that is a poison.
 Germs Always Present.
 Man may drink glass or typhoid germs if he is in vigorous health and may not get typhoid fever. because his system IQaN throw 0U ifc BOlSOUt DuI | he is broken down, one of the germs will get hold of his intestines and pro, duce alteration ard typhoid. Not a man but has pneumonia germ In his' mouth, It will not affect the healtay being, but lot man got q cold and 1t will take it's seat in his lungs"
 What do you consider the best food Tor a man to esiy' asked Mir. Little
 T think a man ought to choose his own. ration. replied Dr. Wiley. q For tue stu .tensnce of physical exef lion. If you have hard work to do. there is nothing better than starch or sugar. The cers9l-eoting nations can meat eating nations. That Is not the accepted view, but It is true. You can. not tire opt Japanese. wlIo eats rice {" He win draw you around the town cn a pound of rice. and be As fresh at the close of tho day as when ho startod You could not do that on pound Of meat to save yoar life. .a--
 Work oF "POison Squad"
 pr. Wiley told the committee ot tha 'boys" in lis "poisoh squad" This Is the. fifth year" he said. that we have been testing the effeci unon euiors and other substances that have been commonly used in our foods
 '"rhe young men arc first allowed to buy the best in the market. 1t Is carefully inspected by myself and analysed. They have preliminary period during which We vary the ra- lion so they do not either gain or lose In weight. Then We add a small quau- tity of one of the preservativeF. like borax adding half a grain q day to their food. They eat that for ten days. Then we increase 1t to grain and they eat that for another ten days.
 Every Point Watched.
 "Nothlnc is wasted. If they trim their finger nails they have to bring the trimnlings 10 us. or if their hair s cut they bring us t.eir hair, so we ,an keep track oC the income and out go, just as you seer bank account. Tn that way we can determine whether these things disturb the natural prog. grPss of affairs.
 "we keep that mp HntIl we make them i'll; until 70 produce some effect a disturbance of some k:nd. Then we ,ut them on the old ration and observe that for ten or fifteen days until they