The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-04-25
The SCAE...A FOOD GUIDE |
Mans Ration One Per Cent
of His Weight Daily.
GETTING FAT A SECRET
How TO Grow Thin Also Revealed In
This simple Rule for Regulating
Diet--Starch and Sugar Declared
the best Food for the Sustenanco
Of Physical Exertions.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, Chief OF
the Bureau of Chemistry OF the Do
partment of Agriculture, is author
fly for the statement that every man
eats every day "one per cent. OF
his weight In dry foods. and 1t re-
outres one hundred days for him
To eat his head on" II man eats
less he will lose weight. DR.. Wiley
asserts, and II he eats more he Will
eain, which will be good news to
the thin who want to get fat, DR..
Wiley adds that every person should
consume four and a half pounds OF
solids and liquids every day, but In
doing the ordinary work OF govern
ment clerk this amounts Is above the
average.
Or. Wiley said he had never made
nm investigation to determine the
hest foods for mental labor, but no
believed the general opinion that
particular kinds of foods nourished
particular parts Of the body was
quite erroneous.
Nerve and brain foods are ad-
vertised. but they are all nonsense"
said DR.. Wiley. Nor do drugs have
8 tattening effect. On the contrary.
most of them have a degrading
effect. Arsenic up to a certain point
has tattening effect. A man gains
in weight for the time and then dies,
but that is poison.
"A man may drink glass of ty-
phoid germs II he Is In vigorous
health and may not get typhoid
fever, because his system may throw
OF the poison, but II he Is broken
down one OF the germs will produce
typhoid. Not a man but has pneu-
uiania germ In his mouth. 1t will
not effect the healthy being. but let
q man get cold and It will take its
seat in his lungs"
What do you consider the best
food for a man to eat?" he was
asked.
II think a man ought to choose
his own ration" replied DR.. Wiley
Lots Of people are vegeterians.
think we eat too much meat Tor
health. For the sustenance OF ply
stcal exertion II you have hard work
tn do there is nothing better than
starch or sugar. The cereal eating
nations can endure more physical
toll than the meat eating nations.
That ID not the accepted view.but
n in true. You cannot tire out a
Jruanese, who eats rice. He
Win draw you around the town on
pound Of rice. and be as fresh ut
tho close Of the day as when no
started. You could not do that ON
n pound Of meat to save your life."
Or. Wiley spoke OF his boys" In
his poison squad" This Is the
nfsh year" he said. that we have
been testing the effect upon health
and digestion Of preservatives. colors
and other substances that have been
commonly used in our foods.
The young men are first allowed
b sat wholesome food" he went on.
I'VE buy the best in the market. 1t
In carefully inspected by myself and
anapyzsd. They have preliminary
period. during which we vary the
rstfon. 80 that they do not either
gain or lose weight. Then we add
q small quantity Of one OF the pre-
suvatfves. like borax. adding half
q grain q day to their food. They
eat that for ten days. Then we in
rraase It to grain. and they eat
that for another ten days.
,'Nothing Is wasted. II they trim
thesr finger nails they have to bring
tho trimmings to US, or II their
hair Is cut they bring us their hair.
no We can keep track Of the income
and outgo. Just as you keep bank
account. In that way we can deter
ratns whether these things disturb
the natural progress of affairs.
We keep that up until we make
them III, until we produce some
eject, a disturbance of some kind.
Then we put them on the old ration
and observe that for ten OIL fifteen
days, until they are restored to their
normal condition. This requires
an enormous amount of analytical
work, and yet 1t is the only way In
wafch these great questions can be
answered. You can theorize about
Il rs much as you like. but the facts
mast be ascertained before final
eaaclusion.
One of the interesting things we
hoand was the effect of fumes of
bsrning sulphur, SO commonly used
In the preservation of foods. We
examined microsopically the blood of
each of our young men We counted
the blood corpuscles, white and red.
and the amount of coloring matter,
and we found that the moment they
began to take sulphurous acid their
hood corpuscles began to fade and
became diminished In number, the
Oxygen carrying capacity OF the
blood being diminished"