Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-05-16
WILL EAT SALTPETER.
.,.,,rRsITY STUDENTS TO SET
TIE MooTED QUESTIONS.
VARS Experiments in Interest of
eeef-Eatine PubIic-One-Haif to
Re Fed on Meat Cured
with Solution.

- 20 twelve months a squad OF Wig
nous and healthy men will be the
subjects upon whom small company
- eavants. working in the interests
~ humanity in general and beef-eat-
orc in particular, will test the effects
- meat that has been cured with
soltneter and other supposedly injuri-
ous preservatives.
This was. settled the other day.
zuhen what will be known as the ma
tional commission for the lnvest1ga-
tion of nutrition problems was formed
IN New York at the Fifth Avenue no.
tel
This organization will act under the
auspices of the University of Illinois
and it is composed of Prof. ii. 5.
Grindley of that institution, Prof. K.
Cbittenden of Yale university,
Prof. J. J. Abel of Johns Hopkins uni
versity and' Prof A. P. Mathews OF
Chicago university.
The movement was inaugurated by
Prof. Edmund j. James of the Univer-
sity of Illinois, who will also take an
active part in it's progress. The ex
periments will be carried on at the
University of Illinois, and it is said
that they will be the most thorough
of the kind ever undertaken in the
United States.
There has been great difference Of
opinion among experts" said Prof
Grindley, "as to the effect of certain
preservatives used in the curing o.
meat and the commission will direc
it's attention first to the determination
of some of these important questions
The first experiments will be to dis
cover the effects upon the human
body of the saltpeter used in curing
meats.
1T is a well-known fact that salt
peter taken in considerable quantitie
is a poison, but whether the small
amount consumed by the eating o
cured meats is in any way injurious
has long been a mooted question.
THE data obtained will be OF prim
Importance in aiding the enforcement
the utmost Importance in aiding i
the formulation of further just regr
lations as to the use of this and Othe
preservatives in food products"
The "saltpeter squad" as it Nigh
be called, will be boarded in specia
ly equipped house in such way tina
the weight of all foods eaten by eac
man can be accurately determine
and the food completely analysed.
physician will keep daily record {
the physical condition and health {
each member of the squad.
The diet of half the men will il
ciude cured meat products now on th
market containing saltpeter and til
otner half will be fed on a diet exac
similar except that the cured meat
VIII contain none of the preserv
tives.
another interesting feature of IL
experiments will be that efforts wi
NC made to have the men house
pleasantly and their meals so Or
oented to them as to eliminate If pc
s s.a the influence of the mental co
as''on OF the squad on the process
VI digestion and nutrition.
-" Is the purpose of the commi
s;On also to make experiments of
,idr Kind upon the lower animal
,s 'nat at the end of the work the a
e~o S may be killed and a thoroul
nro inatlon made by the most a
f foo. methods to determine the
ora.e VI the saltpeter upon the intern
Of ' S,i connected with the process
digestion and assimilation.