Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

cles, as the case may be. RI tbi. !.
not done the digestive system min
weakened, whereas by the otbo.
course 1t will be strengthened Tboro
Is no danger in the normal case .,
entirely relieving the digestive az
eflmlnat1ve system for hours or -.
Gays. thorough UNDERSTANDING ~
the philosophy of this conservatism 80
vitality with the increased coredor1
and self-reliance that such undars+ar,,
ing brings, is of great value. Esna
cially important is it to the nro
fessional man who must often be snb
Jected to great mental strain for loro11
er or shorter periods, and to the atS
Iete, who must drop weight steadi-
In any endurance test. You canro,
work brain or muscle to their fu,lest
capacity, and at the same time wort
the digestive and eliminative svstan
to its limit.
have found, by experiments q,
myself and others, that there is a ,os,
In weight of about pound a dav drr
ing the first few days of a fast. wbar
little work is done. Now the dA.
mands of the system are supplied bv
consumption of the tissues, and analv.
sis of the excreta and secretion,
shows the proportions of the food clio.
ments required to sustain life. ADA.
ing for the work of digestion and
elimination and increased work wa
get the estimate above given.
When intense mental work is beino
done, there is an extraordinary waste
of phosphorus and albumen especially
These can be supplied quickly without
great draft on vitality for digestion
and elimination, by eating flesh fsb
eggs and milk. These are quickly con.
verted into force. But they are as
quickly expended, and thus produce
results equivalent to stimulation
This is especially true of meat. Meat
contains the waste of the animal sva
tenn from which it was taken, particu.
larly uric acid; and it has been fully
proved that the chief cause of fatigue
is the accumulation in the tissues NJ
waste, particularly uric acid. In all
the recent great tests of endurance
non-fesh eaters have excelled flesh
eating competitors. To the physolo-
glst familiar with the principles Of
nutrition involved, it is as clear that
it should be so as that an engine
should run better on clean coal than
on coal and slate, of the same weight
Sugar, especially fruit sugar. as in
prunes, dates, figs, dried currants
and oil (oliye oil or peanut) are the
most economical sources of heat and
muscular energy In athletic work
these will supply the extraordinary
waste of carbon with the least ex-
penditure of vitality for digestion and
elimination The articles of diet to
be most surely avoided in athletic
work, where long sustained effort is
required, are meat, white bread
(fresh), fried potatoes, pies, boiled
cabbage, pickles, beans, coffee, tea al
cohol, cooked oysters, fish. If meat
must" be eaten, let it be little NUT
ton or fresh white fish.
These suggestions apply equally to
the invalid, but each case requires
special consideration. Sugar for in
stance, should be altogether omitted
in certain cases.
A food may show, on analysis,
a high nutritive value, yet may
require so much energy to digest
it to appropriate It's nutritive sub
stance and to eliminate its waste, that
the net profit may be little or moth
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in preferring, for instance, olive oil
to cod liver OIL Meat digests more
easily in the stomach than does wheat
gluten, but digestion Is not completed
in the stomach, and the elimination or
meat is much more expensive than
the elimination of entire wheat bread,
and-most important consideration
examination of the excreta from
meat shows a much greater number
of germs depending much on the
kind Of meat than the excreta from
bread, thus clearly indicating mat
meat is a much more active cause OF
auto-intoxication than bread.
Boiled cabbage, again. is an expen-
sive article of diet because 1t (bolleo)
contains little or no nutritive elements
that the system can use, and 1t re-
quires more energy to digest than
bread
Now to arrange a satisfactory, eco
nomic dietary one must consider all
the facts in a given case. Tables oil
food value, including digestibillty' are
useful or not according as one under
stands them properly
Following is a comparison OF inc
values of ~ principal foods reduced
10 units of nutrition" published oy
our government, department OF agFf
culture, bulletin No. %;
Nutritlve Cost per
units 1000 units
per pound. in cents,
Skim milk ............ N2 "a
Skim milk cheese. 500 49,.
Full milk.............. l4o,0 TX