Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-12-30
.CUR||.|l)S|T|Es Or DIET,
How Nature Adapts Food to Man
and Man to Food.
GREAT VALUE OF CEREALS.

Why People Can Eat Bread at Every
Meal Without Getting Tired Of II.
The Fruits Of the Burning Tropics
and the Fats Of the Frozen Arctic.
Modern science has shown that ma
ture provides food for mankind with
marvellous care and foresight. The hu-
man system requires a certain amount
Of proteid 4daily to replace wornont
muscle and tissue. Fish and meat sup
ply this In large quantities. In hot
climates, however, these spoil SO quick
" that their use is limited Nature, I
as If to compensate for this, has given
to certain tropical fruits much larger
quantity Of proteid than northern fruits
contain Thus government analysis
shows that figs have Eve units or Gallo
ries to the ounce, dates two and five
tenths and bananas one and five-tenths.
Apples have five-tenths, peaches nine
tenths and pears seyen-tenths. Prob
ably the figs and dates tested had lost
part Of their moisture, and some allow
ance should be.made for this.
The Arab can, therefore, maintain his
/ ltvigor on diet chiefly plucked from
trees. Henry NJ. Stanley and his white
lcompanions subsisted almost entirely
Lon banana -four for two years in the
African jungle. Their freedom from
disease was in part attributed to the
wholesomeness of this diet. The dried
banana contains 20 per cent OF proteid,
I5about double that Of ordinary wheat
flour.
At the opening Of the mango season
in Jamaica many Of the natives prac-
tically live on this fruit for two or
l.three weeks. They fairly revel In 1t.
An Englishman who was familiar with
| the science Of diet could not under
stand how they could not only main
H tain their health on this fare, but
actually grow sleek and fat. He knew
that an effort to live on the fruits OF
|! his native country would result in
weakness, sickness and eventual death.
i Chemical analysis showed, however,
| that the mango contained enough pro-
| ted to supply the bodily needs.
q II nature has been thus kind in
4 adapting food to mans uses. she has
! been equally SO in adapting man to his
food. You may have wondered why
(, people can eat bread at every meal
4 without firing Of It. The difficulty Of
eating one quail a day for thirty days
/ is well known. Even such delicacies as
asparagus and Strawberries cause an
aversion when served too frequently.
Il Nature sends men never failing ap-
& petite for cereals because they are alto
6 gether the most valuable Of foods.
They contain q considerable amount Of
tproteid, their salts are of Importance
to the organism, they are readily di-
Igested when properly cooked, and they
furnish great deal Of nourishment in
small bulk.
Thus wheat -four, cornmeal, oatmeal
dry and rice dry have more than
100 units to the ounce. Baked potatoes
have 32.7 units, cabbage has 90, spin
: ach Z, asparagus 6.5, apples 1874, straw
berries 11.4, spring chicken 1876 and
i Etenderloin Of beef broiled SO. If a man
tried to get even half OF his nutrition
from the coarse vegetables, which have
la considerable indigestible residue, he
would have to eat pounds Of them
daily, and his stomach would be sadly
Ioverburdened Nature gives us the de
/. Esire for varied diet, and science
lshoWs that this Is altogether the best
for us.
i In the arctic regions there is little
vegetation. Man must live almost
Z wholly on animal foods. Fish and
lmeat would not suffice, because they
4 contain only proteids. These would re
i. place wornout muscle and tissue, but
r could not be burned in the body te
generate heat and energy. Fats, how.
8 ever, consist of carbon and hydrogen
which are the chief components Of the
J. foods Of vegetable origin and supply
\ the fuel needed by the body. The po
lar animals have fat In abundance, but
residents Of the temperate and torrid
/. zones can eat 1t only In limited guam
titles. To them the mere thought OF
fchewing chunks Of grease is nause
& iating.
a The children OF the frozen north
4 however, are endowed not only will
q the ability to eat and to digest large
q quantities of fat, but with keen ap
= petite for 1t. One who is sensitive K
q such impressions must turn away
Il when he sees the natives Of southern
i Alaska, the Thlinkits, swallowing sea
Il oil favored by salmon berries with thu
s. Egusto Of a boy over lee cream. Tht
4 Eskimos, farther north, will eat blub
s. Der, slightly cooked In the flames, Il
8 Ian indefinite number of pounds New
York Tribune.
Her Object Attained.
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& sip humbly. @but thoughtlessly men
4 toned to Mrs. Brown the things tina
e you told me In strict confidence" /"
There is nothing to forgive replie,
& the wise woman pleasantly. 1T wa
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