New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-23

+ the soil consuming a pound and q half OF
/ food every twcntv-four hours, just an
| ounce an hour. \ horse fed a. proportion
| aIlv would unless ho were working In the
! Park Department. very soon be- removed
either by the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty 10 Animals or a mcrciful ProN-
denCe.
Then. experiments have been tried Of
putting dogs on low proteid diet. but
| with an abundance Of CARBOHYDRATES ana
! fat Tho invarlable result was loss OF
| body weight. strength and vigOr. and. when
the experiment was prolonged. H. always
ended IN tho death ~ the animal
For tho last ffty years scientists hav"
been trying 10 discover tho exact proper
! tiona 81 tho different food elements which
arc required daily hy the average man
, They have failed for tho simple reason
! that the average man does not eNist-there
! IL no average man. Every ono rs different.
and each requires yario's amounts and
, kinds ~ foods every day. II IS my firm
opinion that n tho so-callcd average man
consumes regularly tho kind and amount
1 ~ food he desire. that is n he follows h''
natural appe'it"-ho would not he nearly so
| Tar ont IS me- N'IIl l' Nf.|f lIf t' ''i' '.'
a table Of food values Nature takes car"
Of a reasonable excess of food Of any kind.
! I'm Tact. 4 certain amount % excess is need
| m FOR good digestion, because or tho
/ stimulating mechanical action which und'-
/ gcsted particles exert on the stomach and
! intestinal walls.
| Were the theory. which. unfortunately.
| has been too widely accepted. that even
the moderate eater consumes twice too
much. true IN practice. then not the class
| ~ the we'll 10 do. but that or tho wretch
I eddy poor. would be our paragons of health.
/ as the latter habitualy get about hair as
: much nourlshment as the former. But IL is
generally known that the half-nourished
are stuntcd and often deficient. and that
| tho goodly nourshcd constitute the lead
/ ing class.
The report. in March. 1905. of the Royal
| Commission on Physical Training I'm Scot
land stated that there existed In Scotland
an undenable degeneration Of individuals
! ~ the class where food and environment
were defective.
Moreover, Dr. William Hall. an English
| man found after an examination 81 all
/ the school children In different districts OF
Leeds. that al every age from seven To
/ twelve years. inclusive. the average weight
and height Of those in the schools which
served poor district were considerably be-
/ low tho weight and height OF those I'm the
J schools serving a wealthy district.
! And 4. Watt Smyth has remarked in
his Physical Deterioration that II was a
| curious sight to notice how the lower the
scale Of poverty Chat is. the less good food
/ IS supplied the duller the children looked.
some of them seeming little better than
tmbeciles-thelr brains starved for want OF
! blood"
But" / put in. docs Professor Chltteh-
den advise that children also be fed eco
Inomically'?'
"He does distinctly" replied DR.. Hunt
| Gle advises us TO begin by instillinS N
/ the minds ~ our girls and BOYS a more
rational mode OF living, meaning that we
teach them % curb their abnormal cray
/ ings for an excess OF nutrimont.
! At this point Or. Hunt arose went 10