Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-01-21

wheat gluten. A large percentage Of
the gluten with the indigestible mat
ter In whole wheat bread is sxcreted.
starch is one element OF food that is
improved by cooking; when thorough
ly cooked II 10 more fully assimilated
than any other food element. except
sugar. II is natural to suppose. then.
that q larger percentage OF waste
should be excreted from whole wheat
than from white bread. But II does
not follow that the white bread Ia bet
ter than the brown.
A certain amount Of waste matter
in the food is beneficial, stimulating
naturally the action OF the intestines.
No one familiar with the physiology OF
digestion advocates predigested or
highly concentrated foods.
Well cooked starch is more com
pletely assimilated than any other
cooked food, II there is a demand In
the system for a supply Of carbon at
the time the food is taken, and no alb
normal conditions exist to prevent It's
assimilation. Therefore. we should e.
pect q more complete use OF the
cooked starch bread. A vigorous
man on a long tramp would utilize
practically all of half pound OF sugar
daily, with other food, especially II ne
were below normal weight; but sugar
Ia not a good staple diet; half a pound
n day would soon cause serious trou-
BILE for a bookkeeper. Let book
keeper eat a pound day Of coarse
bread and no serious trouble may
follow for months or years; yet II he
eat a pound a day Of white bread
trouble will certainly follow In a short
time. serious trouble. ultimately.
OF all the indirect causes OF disease
the most prolific is constipation; and
there IL no more general contributing
cause of constipation than fine white
bread.
Fear God and keep your bowels
open" was the whole gospel preached
by a Quaker who believed in speaking
the simple truth in simple way. Per-
haps he had taken his cue from an
other member OF that society who
said: ~ shall pass this way but once,
therefore IL there is any good thing
I can do while I am In the way, let me
not fail to do It." The young physi-
clan. full of strange notions about
"pathogenic bacteria" and indications
of the opsonic index" may forget IN
his inquiry into the causes OF our COM
mon ailments to ask whether we are
living according to the gospel OF the
old Quaker; but our good old family
doctor. who learns and forgets most
of the brilliant theories OF the profes-
sion. never forgets to ascertain the
condition of elimination. Many OF
our able thinkers in the healing pro-
fession say there Is but one cause OF
disease-the retention Of waste mat
ter in the system.
Our grandmothers knew Of several
kinds OF physic, some OF them not
very agreeable, but there was one that
was intended to serve as cure-aii IN
all cases in which 1t was not deemed
necessary to send for the doctor; It
was called by way of pre.eminence,
"a physic." Now there are people VINO
seem to think that God made every
thing that might possibly be eaten
without causing severe distress to
be used for food, and for hundreds OF
years doctors have been proving
Lspecific remedies good for real and
imaginary ills. ! am glad to nave
this opportunity to say to large num-
her of our American people that am
satisfied tina. Nature did make one
good physic which man has learned
to improve 60 by making 1t into
coarse bread; but shall deal with the
curative values Of foods In forthcom'
| ing chapters on 1.-THE Diet Cure.