Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1908-12-17

animal tissue 10 made. from the
amoeba 10 the brain OF man. 10 albu'
men. This albumen Is found In the
food OF all animals. The white OF egg
Is almost pure albumen; and In milk.
the food OF the young OF all the man.
malta, albumen is q large constituent.
Experiments have been made to de-
termine what foods will alone support
life. determining that wheat gluten.
which is almost pure albumen, sup
ports life indefinitely longer than any
other single element. Flesh, OF which
the lean is principally albumen, Will
support life indefinitely. as will milk.
eggs, nuts. beans. wheat, corn, oats,
dates. which contain large percentage
OF albumen with other food elements.
Milk has been called the perfect food
because Il contains. In addition to al
bumen, all the other elements neces.
sary TO build brain. muscle and bone;
and the same Is true Of wheat and OF
some nuts and fruits. The milk OF all
the mammalia contains the same food
clements, differing chiefly In the
amount and kind OF the albumen.
Cows milk is not q perfect infants
food because II contains larger per
centage OF albumen than Its natural
food and OF somewhat different char
acter. This important subject will be
treated In q subsequent article.
Albumen is found in large per-
centage In all nuts, in beans, peas and
entire wheat bread. Peanuts contain
about 30 per cent. Of albumen, with
so per cent. fat not inferior to olive
oil, and four per cent. mineral.
Recent experiments have shown
that the percentage Of albumen re-
CURED for perfect nutrition is much
less than was formerly supposed. The
growing child requires probably three
times as much as the mature man be-
cause II must build new tissue besides
repairing waste. An insufficient sup.
ply OF albumen for the child, II long
continued, leads to serious results. A
case was recently brought to our at
tention in which an infant had been
fed for several weeks on fresh cream,
because It was found that the stomach
retained that while the entire milk
was persistently rejected. At first
there was an apparently satisfactory
gain in flesh, but this gave place to
extreme weakness and wasting. The
cream was mixed with a part OF the
balance of the milk, gradually increas-
ing the amount OF albumen and other
necessary elements Of nutrition, and
normal conditions soon returned. And
here 1t may be remarked that excess
Of fatty tissue Is an indication OF dis
ease, not OF health.
The necessary albumen can be OBJ
tanned from flesh because 1t Is q nee
essary constituent of the flesh OF all
animals, including fish. But flesh con-
tains small percentage Of waste mat
ter of the animals system. 1t has been
repeatedly shown that flesh foods may
communicate disease, despite the in
spection; and the human alimentary
canal is not as well adapted to the
digestion OF flesh as Is the organism
of the carnivora, in which the stomach
and liver are relatively much larger
and the intestines much shorter than
in man. The well-knowR- tests OF en-
durance recently made at Yale uni
versity proved that non-fesh eaters
had much greater sustaining power.
In all the great walking contests In
Germany and America the winners
have been abstainers from flesh meat.
The best sources of albumen, aside
from meat, are nuts, beans. eggs and
whole wheat or graham bread.
But the character Of the albumen is
important. Albumen coagulates at q
temperature Of 100 F., and is then
assimilated with difficulty. 1t is for
this reason, partly, that the egg Is
found to be more nutritious uncooked
than cooked. And it is for this reason,
chiefly, that such apparently wonderful
results have been obtained from the
use of raw cereal foods, despite the
indigestibility Of raw cereal starch.
Understanding, then, that the essen
tial element of food is albumen, In Its
natural state, the question arises:
What is its best and most economical
source? Considering economic con-
ditions, which exclude the pecan, wal
nut, ana other expensive nuts, the
answer is: The peanut, which fur