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


| nishes an abundant supply Of easily
assimilable albumen together with fat.
which vies In nutritive value with
olive oil. This. with n small amount
OF graham bread. gives the ideal pro-
teld and fat ration. The state OF
Texas alone can furnish the staple
food. of our people. Tho rapidly In
creasing consumption Of the peanut
with the corresponding rise In price
should induce the planting Of q still
larger crop the coming season. The
incoming crop is the largest ever pro
duced In this counts.
Not less than so per cent. Of the
solid part OF our food should be that
which supports combustion. maintain
ing heat and muscular energy. This
Is taken rs fat or oil, starch or sugar.
A certain percentage OF fat is neces-
sary for the best nutrition. II II be
true. as many careful students Of diet
believe. that nuts and fruits are the
most natural food OF man, this per.
centage Of fat should be large. Animal
fats, even milk fat when separated.
are assimilated with difficulty and
they, particularly lard. are open to 9th.
er objections. The consumption OF
olive oil has increased rapidly during
the past few years. II is not general
ly known that peanut fat, as In the I'M
cooked nut or in peanut butter In
which fatty acid has not been de-
veloped by excessive dry roasting. Is
equal, II not superior. In nutritive quail
tiles to olive oil. being assimilated
with wonderful facility, as the ex.
IRENE degree Of Its solubility in water
would indicate.
There are serious objections to
cereal starch as the major element of
food, which II now Is in the dietary OF
the American people. The potato, es'
pecially II baked, is much to be pre-
ferred to fine white bread. Rice Is
far superior to the ordinary cereals as
a source Of carbon, as the example OF
the Japanese would indicate.
Sugars are the most easily assimilat.
ed of foods (including honey, and
fruit sugar should be substituted for
large part of our cereal food, cane
sugar being inferior. And the best
sources OF fruit sugar are the ripe
banana (almost unknown in this coun.
try) figs, dates and prunes.
Fruits are better eaten separately
from other foods. Nuts and meat
digest in the stomach, chiefly, requir.
ing about three hours there; fruits
digest in about one hour, in the In.
testine chiefly. There Is as much OBJ
lection to mixing them as there Is to
eating and drinking at the same mo-
ment.
Now without here considering fur.
Their the requirements Of an ideal diet.
does 1t not seem evident that we have
already a knowledge of facts that
would enable us to make wonderful
gain in good feeling and efficiency by
improving the nutritive supply and
saving large part Of the vital energy
daily wasted in digesting and eliminat.
ing improper and unnecessary food, II
not for the average person who Is
slow to realize the benefit to be OBJ.
tanned, at least for the athlete who can
quickly demonstrate a gain In efficien'
cy by right diet, for the invalid who
needs to conserve his vitality and for
the aged whose stock is low (but who
has, alas, lost to q great degree the
power of adaptation)? Hundreds OF
invalids who have gradually changed
their diet have found new life. Many
who have had only the desire for
greater efficiency and immunity from
disease have made the change. A
well-known merchant Of Aurora, ILL.,,
for example, who has for nearly year
followed an exclusive diet OF juicy
fruits in the morning, peanuts with
slice of Graham bread at noon and
prunes only in the evening, drinking
only water between meals. declares
that nothing could tempt him to 60
back to the old way. He says, and
his clerks corroborate the statement,
that he is worth three times as much
in his business; he can write a bet
ter advertisement, better letter; his
mind is clear, his conception brilliant,
his Judgment prompt, his execution
sharp, decisive. He rises two hours
earlier than formerly and enjoys his
work as never before.
Here, surely, is food for thought.