The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-19
unless very thoroughly washed. Rye

unless very thoroughly washed. Rye
starch is next to rice in digestibility.
A few years ago made test OF
starch, cooked and uncooked, using
corn starch, because it was easiest to
get that pure. There is, however, a
great difference in starches. Cooked
rye starch Is almost as easily digest
ed as rice. The accepted theory is
that cereals must be cooked because
the starch granules are encased in
tibrous sacs. which prevents access of
the digestive fluids. This indicates the
Importance Of thorough mastication.
The wheat should be chewed to a fine,
smooth paste.
The cooking Of the albumen and
germ in the cereals materially changes
the digestive problem. The germ of
wheat which is thrown out in making
wheat flour, contains an engine
which enables the germ to digest the
starch until the grain is capable of
taking nourishment from the soil.
cooking destroys the germ and this
delicate engine, thus changing COM
oletely the digestive quality of the en-
Ire grain. The most powerful digestor
OF starch yet discovered is diastase,
developed from the bran of wheat.
This is thrown away in making white
flour, and in the whole wheat is de-
stroyed by cooking.
Wheat is nearer the ideal food than
any other except milk (for infants)
and SOME nuts, but it contains almost
no fat
r. Y, zone Mans Meat" Etc.-Is it
true that zone mans meat Is another
mans poison?" Some say that this
rule excludes the possibility of pre-
scribing set diet for anyone and that
the natural rule is, Eat anything you
like and that agrees with you?"
Ans.-lt is true, to certain extent,
necessarily, because temperaments diff.
fer and temporary conditions require at
times, the eating of particular food
adapted to the requirements of the
case, just as dog will sometimes eat |
a little grass, or coarse grain refuse. |
But the desire to eat some unusual |
food at times is nearly always abnor-
NAL. It has been found that when
person is living on one or two sub
stantial foods containing all the ele-
ments of nutrition, and eats moderate
ly and regularly, that this desire en-
tirely disappears. See answers to l.
H. A. and w. H. s.
w. S., Roasted Peanuts.-After read.
ing your explanation of the difference
hQtWnQn tho vo1IIo 0f
roasted peanuts, / ate a handful of the
twice and each time they
acted like common cathartic. Why?
Ans.-The digestion of nuts is differ
ent from the digestion of the mixture
If ordinary food stuffs. If the system
adapts itself to the digestion of nuts,
t will not be fully adapted to the di-
5estion of other foods and in a COM
healthy person, with the di.
sestlve system in abnormal condition,
IS result of eating unnatural food
he result you obtained is to be ex-
oected. Nuts are better not mixed
With other foods, except perhaps
coarse whole wheat bread Wheat re.
'embles nuts more closely than any
'ther food. Roasted peanuts are
more like cooked meat and cooked
cereals than are the natural nuts and
While they are not natural food they,
n many cases, do not cause the dis
urbances that the natural food does
or while until the system becomes
dapted. Changes in food for the bet
er should always be made gradually,
or the same reason that the use Of to-
acco, coffee, and alcohol should be
roken off slowly, not suddenly.
Copyright, 1909, by Joseph B. Bowles.)