The Green Forest tribune., 1909-02-05
ECONOMICS OF EATING

NaHuS- AHu SD tOLs dS lHe ueSIlt -s gratified naturally there is harmony, health and growth. But when the de- sire becomes deprayed and it's satis- faction abnormal, there is inharmony uHhappiness, disease and death. Eat what you like" is. therefore, as we have already concluded, the best rule, in spite of pure-food law, food reform CT and prohibitionist-so long. that is as you like what is good for rou.
 Certainly the average man eats what he likes, without considering whether il is good for him or whether he is getting the most for his money. Now is this wise? Would it not be very much better to have d system of eating-foT at present we have none, especially in America. where We eat aEythlng, any time. any way, almost.
 1"was trying to show the members pf1a Woman's club awhile ago that the &kipest ~ t-5iem, living on rice fentire ,rice)s ;tim63t exclusively. is better sthan ours, because t furnishes better .IOurishRent, avoids sickness and isaTes dish-washiEg. To which one awoman replied when the time came for questions and criticism: T sup. pose they live in that poyerty-stricken way in that pOvertystricken country because they have to. For my part, I'm glad l don't have to live on rice all the time And if ii is true that man is what his food makes him, l think China is a good warning to the rest Of the world
 l have Iot advised living on rice, not even e unbolted rice which eff feEs from the rice We use. as whole wheat diffefc from fine white four Rice is a ore-sided diet The system of the Japanese, who eat also fresh fish and beans, is much better, be- cause it supplies, besides heat and en- ergy, an adequate proportion of flesh and nerve food. But the point is. the Chinese, like the Japanese, and most other nations, have a system, and any system is better than none, especially in eating. The Chinese is the opposite of our extreme but l hesitate not to say that the average Chinaman is better fed than the av- craze American, so far at least as the laborer, who needs the least brain food, is concerned.
 ! "But why" I am asked. " if the Chinese monodiet, is so good. has China been for centuries a by-word for unprogressiveness? ?"
 ! The resources of the Chinese are not yet understood by the rest of the world. Food, moreover, is but the material factor in life; the mind is the fundamental factor. as I have en- deayored constantly to show. The Chinese have had from time immem- orial, mind-dwarfing system of edu cation that has effectually retarded their progress, but all that is being changed. which with the gradual abolition of the death-dealing opium habit will bring in new China, an other light of Asia
 A Scotehman and an Englishman were arguing the relative merits of their respective countries In litera- 5ture Scott and Burns were pitted - HSoihSt IiShShS anu OudheSp pedfe. Anyway" said the Englishman, at , last exhausted by the resources of ! Sandy, the masses of the people in England are better off than in your country. In Scotland you feed your people on the stuff we give to our horses in England Yes" replied the Scotchman. where will you find such men and where will you find such horses?"
 , In the course of an investigation into the relation between food and health, a few years ago, l discovered two interesting general facts, from the statistics of the state boards of health: Death from cancer which, according to the late Dr. Nicholas Senn and other good authority is disease caused by indulgence in eating tespecially, l think, in neat, in creases rapidly among Germans and Irish immigrants and their descend ants, the two races who most quickly adopt our habits of eating, while there is little increase among Italian, Greeks, Bohemians and others who continue, in the second generation, to live largely on their native simple diet. The average foreigner naturally thinks that the chief benefit of high CT wages is not better schooling but greater variety of food, including meat every day, thing possible only for the rich in his own country Surely good is not always gnmiXed with evil, : Herbert Spencer says ttat tLe most valuable knowledge IS that needed for self-preservation which surely includes knowledge of food, it's first essential We have already con sidered the constituents Of various foods and the uses of each Let us now consider some of the leading e. ticles Of food not already dealt With and their comparative values.
 Apples contain but a small amount Of solid matter, chiefly sugar, but their minerals, being perfectly assimil- able, and their malic acid being bene- ficial in most cases, they are to be regarded as a most valuable food. In a few peculiar conditions of the liver and in excessive acidity they may be { injurious. but they are especially i beneficial in torpidity of the liver and excessive alkaline conditions (the op- posite of acid). The peach differs lit tie from the apple, but it spells easily while the apple keeps good for { months There is more or less danger . in spoiled or unripe fruit, and a bad speck indicates that the entire fruit , is spelling. Boiling of course coun- teracts fermentation. but if perfectly sound an apple is best uncooked. Ap- pies are best eaten in the morning, with other fruits, not with cereals, vegetables or meat