Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-01-20
TEST OF PEANUT DIET.
Rev. T. J. Allen Gaining Weight
After Thirty Days Trial.
VERY WELL SATISFIED so FAR
Aurora any Clergyman Declares Goo
bers Can Be Made Our National
Staple, Taking the Place of Meat
Contends Cooking Spolis Peanuts,

bers Can Be Made Our Ng4ona
Staple, Taking the Place of Meat.
Contends Cooking Spells Peanuts,
At the end of thirty days dieting on
peanuts Rev. Dr. Thomas J. Allen of
Aurora, H., declares he is gaining in
weight and will continue the goober
feasting until a period of sixty days or
more has been covered He undertook
this diet to disprove board Of health
statement that peanuts We're injurious,
says an Aurora Qll) correspondent of
the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
II am now doing the best mental
work of my career" says DR.. Allen.
"As for physical exertion, l walk ev-
cry day and have turned off ten miles
on the road without exhaustion. feel
capable of more sustained eXertion
than | have ever performed before,
and on the thirtieth day Of my peanut
diet am positive that l have demon
strated the soundness of my theory.
But there is one thing that should
be understood. l drink between two
and three quarts of lemonade n day.
do not think could keep this up If
did not. The first week of my expert
ment lost ten pounds, and since that
time l have been slowly gaining. | moi
only believe l will keep this up to the
sixty day limit, but l think l shall
continue it after the sixty days, but
| -. yr-ifh ~
| fruits Of some kind.
II am firmly convinced that an idea
diet can be produced by combining the
nutritive qualities of the peanut witt
wheat II we could eliminate the
starch entirely from our foods We
should have an ideal combination
Starch Is foreign to the human sys
tenn. Peanuts to constitute the chic
article OF a mans diet should not b.
cooked. If they are cooked 1t coagu
lates the albumen, and they are praC
tically poisonous, as albumen when !
Is coagulated becomes insoluble in wa
ter and is indigestible.
"The greatest mistake we American
make Is In mixing up our various art
cles Of food as we do For instance
Strawberries and cream are bad CON
bination, as is any kind of fruit wit
milk or cream The experience of age
has proved that monodiet Is the bes
thing. For instance, the gladiator
were fed exclusively on barley an
wheat, while the Scotch, who in som
respects are the greatest people 0
earth, live almost entirely on oatmea
Oatmeal Is very hard to digest, but Il
Scotch have gradually become accu
toned to It.
zone Of the reasons that the Jap
nese defeated the Russians is becaus
they are monodietsts. In fact unlei
we change our system Of diet the Mo-
| golians are going 30 overwhelm I
eventually. .}"
''It Ia very simple proposition
! grow enough staple foods to suppl
, the United States. Texas alone cou
, grow enough staple foods to supp
! this country. They can grow peanu
|, In Illinois, / have a friend in one
!. the southern counties who grows theI
, and his children have become 50 a
customed to living on them that thu
sometimes do not come In for the
meals.
! The summer would be better
my experiment than the winter, b
, cause 1t IL necessary to keep up mo
bodily heat than can be done with
a small amount of peanuts, and the ten
!, ency Is to overhead. eat probab
! about three-fourths Of a pound
shelled peanuts day.
1.-THE analysis of the peanut In COZ
parison with eggs, meat and mi
q shows 1t by far the most valuable ar
r Gle OF diet, and It can be made our I
Il tional staple, taking the place of me-
a There is nothing in meat that we ca
Y not get in better form in the peanut.
d THE Importance Of avoiding wro
Il combinations of food which cause Z
q mentation and injurious chemical CO
II pounds is not generally recognized.
" great is the benefit from eating OF
a one food or one class of foods at @
n time that those men who have liy
~ even on inferior articles of diet ha
s. been able to do their daily work W
and have even improved in health.
FOOD Is the vital question. Eve
farmer knows how to feed his stock
70 get the best results, but he does
III know much about how to feed his cl
=, dren. The study of human feeding
ne been sadly neglected"