Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-01-04
TEST OF CACTUS DIET
California Project to Prove the
Plants Nutritiousness.
HARD WORK is DONE ON RI.

| VT G' K Eanoone Thinks Eighteen
Hours a Day Can Be Put In With
Proper piet-Thornless Variety Soon
to Be Common Article Of Food, He
Says, Like Banana, Celery, Etc.
Cactus for breakfast, cactus and eel
cry for lunch and cactus with a few
nuts and little celery for dinner.
To the uninitiated this diet appears
uninviting enough, but to DIR. Leon FL
bert Landone Of Los Angeles, Cal, who
is determined to prove the nutritiye
properties OF the cactus, the menu pre-
sents no unpleasant aspect, says a Los
Angeles (Cal) special dispatch to the
New York Times.
DR.. Landone, stenographer and a
secretary recently began a two weeks
endurance test" on cactus. They have
eaten nothing but the fruit and leaves
OF this plant with a little celery, let
tuce and few nuts. The leaves are
eaten as green's or fried much In the
same manner as eggplant, while the
fruit is eaten either raw or cooked.
DIR. Landone declares the diet con-
tains everything which is needed to
enable man to work eighteen hours a
day. He disclaims being food fad
dist and says he has no sympathy with
those who declare that this or that
kind of food should never be eaten.
He frankly admits that he would not
care to confine himself to cactus the
Of HoV hYxA 4.
little doubt he would be no worse or
were he compelled to do SO.
II am attempting to prove" he said,
shat the body and brain can do more
than the usual amount of work If
enough Of the organic salts are taken
into the system. These foods prevent
the destruction of the tissues and neu-
ralize the fatigue polsons produced
by activity
Take cactus, lettuce, celery, spinach
and asparagus If you do not wish to
become tired out by an ordinary days
work. Meats, nuts, cereals, beans and /
peas help to repair wasted tissues and
are Of value as foods, but the scientific
man and woman learns that the best /
way is to preserve the body as far as
possible, so that as little repair as
possible becomes necessary. It is the
simple application Of the old axiom,
An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure"
DR.. Landone and his assistants ex-
pect to have several others Join them.
DR. r, M. Doud, who is interested with
DR.. Landone in exploiting Professor
Burbank's thornless cactus, purposes
to go on a strict diet of this plant
eliminating even the celery, lettuce
and nuts.
DIR. Landone took his last ordinary
meal on a Friday at noon. He worked
all afternoon and dined in the evening
on cactus leaves and lettuce and work
ed on till 2 o'clock the next Saturday
morning. He was up again at GAO and
at work till II, when he breakfasted
on little cactus, half Of cassava and
a few stalks Of celery. He worked till
9 In the evening and then ate a dinner
or fried cactus leaves and a dozen
pecan nuts. Work was promptly re-
sumed and continued till 1:80, when
four hours rest was taken. Then be-
gan another strenuous day, with writ
Ing, dictation and appointments and
only cactus and pecans for the Sunday
dinner. He is using the ordinary cac-
tus.
If we could afford to eat thornless
cactus altogether during the next two
weeks we should not want any celery
or lettuce" said the doctor with a
smile, 1.-THE Burbank production is SO
much more nutritive as to leaf and de-
lAcious as to fruit that it would be sat
Isfying In itself, but the present COM
msrcial value of one leaf of the thorn
less cactus at this time is $500; hence
It u plainly to be seen the diet Ia a
attls rich for the blood of anybody
except an octopus. In a year or 30
thornless cactus will have come into
10 own and viii be quite as common
an article Of food as the banana, tho
sgSplant or celery is today"