The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-05

'.ngwn to every newspaper reader, l. s good example of the requirements of physical endurance. MT. Weston { ,!iet was far from ideal, but the ont great lesson, constantly taught was trat if "a man is to do his best worl ne must eat only enough to furnisl heat, energy and bodily waste. If ht is to win in a contest, he must ca proteids sparingly and lose in weight Digestion and elimination are work of the severest kind. and the fnoT' he saves in that department, the more he will have to spend in musculat ant mental work.
 A few months ago 1 published il one of the medical journals the re suit of some experiments made tn "A Tramp's Diet" showing that the bes walking was done when only enougf food was taken to prevent actua hunger and that a gradual elimination of meat was found to steadily increase the mileage walked. This correspond: exactly with the results of the endur ance tests made by Profs. Chittender and Fisher of Yale and with all the results in the great walking contests in Germany, England and America.
 No fallacy in regard to diet is more erroneous or more unfortunate thar the common argument that the work ing man needs meat The contrary is true. Dr. Wiley of our federal bu reau of chemistry, an acknowledged authority on food, says: "A Japan csc coolie will carry you around towr all day on pound of rice; you can not do that OIL pound of meat. MT William Jennings Bryan says that the Japanese riskishaw man will wheel man D miles in a day; and his food is rice (unmilled, of course, cor responding to our whole wheat), and possibly beans and fish. The Bedouin Arab, who will run all day by the side of magnificent Arab horse lives on dates and figs, never eating meat.
 1 have nothing to say of the ethical objections to meat-eating. l merely wish in dealing with the economic side of food, to impress. especially upon the working man, that the first step to economy in eating is to omit meat and fine white bread from the diet The man who eats rye or whole wheat and few nuts, needs no meat no eggs. BOT milk. though he will do well to dfink glass of buttermilll daily.
 Sugar is the cheapest food for one doing heavy physical work, because it furnishes energy directly with little waste. It's best source is prunes, figs or dates.
 A spoonful or. two of olive or pea nut oil should be taken daily. Butter is an expensive food compared with vegetable oils
 What the physical worker needs most is, just like the engine, ready, fuel and water. It's cheapest source is sugar and fat, rather than wheat, starch and meat, though rye is easily converted into glucose or cereal sugar. A tablespoonful or more of peanut oil may be taken with prunes, or separately. Fat interferes with the digestion of proteids in the stomach but not with sugar. A warm drink of weak cocoa or substitute coffee may follow a fruit meal, facilitating the passage to the intestine where such food is digested. The more liquid the sooner the stomach empties.
 The most economical of foods is sugar, and yet much harm is done by cane sugar, as itais eaten. in candies, especially by young women who have little exercise, and in tea and coffee by men and women of sedentary oc- cupation. The evil effects of cane sugar, including ordinary candies as compared with the natural sugar foods. dates, figs, prunes, entrants and raisins (and perfectly ripe banan- as), might be compared to the diff ference between fine white and coarse bread.
 march showed that quarter to three quarters of a pound daily of cane sugar was utilized readily and caused no distress, but it is well-xnown fact that such an amount of sugar eaten in the way it is ordinarily taken by one not making the fullest use of lungs and muscles. requiring the con- sumption of a large amount of avail able carbon-that sugar not quickly burned in the system for heat and energy causes catarrh of the stomach and bowels, unfitting them for natural digestion and at the same time over loading the liver and straining the kidneys. Similar results follow the excessive use of starch foods, espe- cially in concentrated form.
 As we have already seen, the es- sential food is albumen, a definite amount of which is necessary, under all circumstances, to support life, as well as. to build new tissue in the growing child. But carbon, as sugar, starch or fat can be much more quick energy If sufficient amount of car bon in these forms is not furnished, heat and energy will be sustained by the consumption of albumen, and as the waste products from the consump tion of albumen, require many times more energy for elimination from the system through the kidneys, the con sumption of more albumen than is necessary, is a serious error in vital economy. Rheumatism, Bright's dis ease, and other diseases result from the inability of the system to eliminate the excessive waste of albuminous foods.
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