The Jasper news., 1908-01-07


able reason for the shortness OF hu.
man life. And If this be the cause, we
must find all the noted cases of lon
gevityf among those people whose diet
is the simplest. Metchnikoff has
found the largest percentage of CEN
tenarians among the Hungarian peas.
ants, living largely on black bread.
Among the Irish peasantry, living
chiefly on potatoes, centenarians are
numerous. The noted cases of lon
gevity in England were all among the
peasantry, living on very simple diet.
The most noted of centenarians, Cor
naro, the Venetian, prolonged life go
years by restricting his diet to a uni
form quantity of eggs and unterment-
ed wine, almost exclusively. =
Several monodiet tests recently
made under the writer's direction
showed, as would naturally be expect
ed, If the principles above stated are
true, remarkable results. Edgar Bro5st,
foundryman, eating only beans for
go days, gained eight pounds in
weight, working Sundays, two nights
and several evenings extra during the
period On a 40 days diet of oatmeal
there was gain of three pounds and
better general conditions of health.
DR.. Landone of Los Angeles, Cal, re-
ported gain in weight living on cae4
tus( for ten days. On returning to
his former mixed diet Brobst lost four
pounds in ten days. Can exclusive diet
of beans would be injurious, and in no
case Is a one-sided diet of beans, pea
nuts, meat or graham bread advis-
able.)
The question naturally arises: Are
selves, including milk and that near
est the perfect food. wheat?
Necessarily the infants food must
contain all the elements essential to
life and growth; but these are harmo-
niously combined as are all the ele-
ments of nutrition, except fat, in
| wheat. Yet skinned milk (from
which the animal fat, not easily assim-
Hated, has been eXtracted) is smore
easily digested than entire milk.
White bread, from which the proteid
has been largely removed, digests
more easily than entire wheat -four
bread, toasted white bread (without
| butter) being a common diet for in
valds; yet cornmeal bread, which is
almost pure proteid, is easily di-
gested.
1t is admitted that, from the scien-
tific viewpoint, the Chinese are the
best fed people in the world. Only
tion has prevented their dominating
the world. The Japanese, living large.
| ly on monodiet of rice, with better
mental conditions, bid fair to become
ruling race. The Scotch, living
largely on oatmeal, have won distinc.
tion in science invention and philos-
ophy for centuries. The worlds mas
terpieces originate never in the ban
quet hall, but often in the garret, fed
by dry crusts
During the past 12 months / have
eaten almost exclusively but one ar
ticle at a meal-rice, whole-wheat
bread, peanuts, bananas, beans, pota.
| 'SOo NpdhCuJ, upDiSSb anu, uo a
nuts at noon and fruit in the evening
my regular diet-and l have enjoyed
perfect health and increased eff.
| cheney
The human system has developed a
wonderful power of adaptation to en-
vironment, food included Evolution
has produced in man an inhabitant of
all climates. capable of subsisting on q
great variety of foods. The diet of the
average American is not a uniform
one, but a continually changing diet
This is true not of the traveller only
who may lunch in Chicago and dine in
Kalamazoo, but equally of the society
woman who may dine at home to-day
and tomorrow at the church, and oil
the business man or woman who eats
at restaurant or hotel. The only
system the average person has in eat
ing is that Of having no system, com
paratively speaking.
If, however, one has long been In
the habit of drinking a cup or two oi
coffee in the morning, for instance
the dropping of that stimulant will
cause, for awhile, the same incon
! venience that the habitual user of in
WETT