The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-12-10
WHAT SHALL WE EAT?

thorlties say. that health. happiness,
beauty and efficiency depend upon
eating more than on anything else, Il
Is worth while to know what 20 eat.
Henry Ward Beecher said that
man with poor liver cant be a good
Christian. Certainly It is easier to
exercise the Christian graces when
one is free from biliousness.
When Bishop Fallows says that
you can make a man good or bad
according to the way you feed him."
he is not denying the Importance OF
the condition Of the heart, but EN-
pnasizing the Importance OF the state
of the stomach. Daniel prepared him.
self and his companions for the won
derful ordeals through which they
passed by dieting as well as by prayer,
and the Master himself by fasting 40
days.
AS we watch the amoeba, the typ
ical unlcellular organism, which
closely resembles blood CELL under
the microscope. we find It changing
its form. gradually, continually. II is
all stomach, enwrapping its food and
digesting II as single organ; and
as a single organ It adapts means to
ends in securing meal, 'as perfect
ly," says Cope the eminent biologist
"as statesman adapts means to ends
in organizing a government"
The body, therefore, is made up OF
myriad of cells, each seeking its
own nutrition, its primary, funda-
mental function. yet possessing the
power OF socialistic. harmonious ac-
ton, organized as lungs. liver. heart,
etc, subject to the influence Of the
sympathetic nervous system, which
binds all the bodily organs together,
so that II one suffers all must suffer
in sympathy; carrying on the vital
processes into which the nutritional
function is organized increasingly,
while life lasts, yet ever amenable to
suggestion through the sovereign, con
scious WILL
From these considerations OF the
constitution of the body II appears
that we think in a sense with the en-
! tire body, although there is a special
organ of thought. and that we digest
with the entire body, although there
are special organs of digestion-that
indeed. life is, in the last analysis, Q
mental-physical nutritional process
at least in its manifestation on this
plane of existence.
Digestion is not a purely physica
process, performed independently b,
a set of digestive organs. The entire
organism is engaged In the process
controlled by the sub-conscious mind
subject to the influence Of the con
scious mind, the sovereign will. And
conversely, the influence of feeding 4
not confined to the special digestive
organs, nor to certain effects which w
denominate physical" The infiuenc'
of feeding is all-pervadlng II is tn
handspring of the mental-physica
life. In its essence spiritual, It mani
tests the life through the use of ma
terial substance, food. And upon tn
quality of the food and the degree o
expenditure of vitality in the process
of nutrition, depends largely the quail
ty Of the life, mental moral and phys
zeal. The question: What Shall w
Eat?" becomes in this light doubl
important.
The essential substance of which a.
animal tissue is made. from III
amoeba to the brain OF man, is abb
men. This albumen Is found in tn
food OF all animals The white of eg
is almost pure albumen; and in mill
the food of the young of all the man
malta, albumen is large constituent
Experiments have been made to d.
termine what foods will alone suppoi
life. determining that wheat clutter
which Is almost pure albumen, SUI
ports life indefinitely longer than an
other single element Flesh, of whic
the lean is principally albumen, wi
support life indefinitely, as will mill
eggs. nuts, beans, wheat, corn, oat
dates, which contain large percentag
OF albumen with other food element
+ M1Ik has been cII1GT Gh6 DGfTGCr Too
because II contains, in addition to a
: bumen, all the other elements nece
! sary TO build brain, muscle and bone
and the same is true OF wheat and (
, some nuts and fruits. The milk OF q
r he mammalia contains the same foo
=, clements, differing chiefly IN Il
: amount and kind OF the albumei
; Cows milk Is not perfect infant
food because Il contains a larger pc
centage of albumen than its natur
food and Of somewhat different cha
acter. This important subject viii
treated In a subsequent article.
Albumen is found in large pc
centage in all nuts, in beans, peas al
entire wheat bread Peanuts conta
! about 80 per cent of albumen, Wi
80 per cent fat not inferior TO OH
: oil, and four per cent mineral
Recent experiments have show
. that the percentage Of albumen I
: quired for perfect nutrition is mu'
a less than was formerly supposed III
r growing child requires probably thr'
r times as much as the mature man
/. cause It must build new tissue besid
repairing waste. An insufficient su
ply OF albumen for the child, II lol
continued, leads to serious results.
S case was recently brought TO our I
(. tention in which an infant had be-
e fed for several weeks on fresh creal
>. because It was found that the stoma
4 retained that while the entire mi
d was persistently rejected. At III
Is there was an apparently satisfacto
q gain in flesh, but this gave place
= extreme weakness and wasting. T
2 cream was mixed with a part Of I