Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1911-08-05
HOT DAYS AHEAD.
Be Careful What You Bat and BE.
member There is Another Meal.

Again Old Sol has resumed his "roast'
of human flesh, and again DR.. Wiley,
Chief OF the Bureau of Chemistry, De.
partment of Agriculture, comes forth to
do battle against the heat darts. DR..
Wiley champions an army of SO, ,402, ,l5l
persons, according to an official an
nouncement by the Census Bureau.
DR.. Wiley says: "In these days Of
battle for mere existence It is, of course,
silly to lay down rules of diet. Most Of
the people of this country are obliged to
eat whatever they can get. Those who
have any choice however, first of all
should be moderate in everything at
the table.
The human system was built for a
mixed diet. The ages have proved that
moderation in food is best for mankind,
so why should we pay any attention to
the faddists that occasionally arise to
claim attention.
If you have been In the habit of eat
ing steak now and then or chop or a
piece of roast meat in cold weather,
there is no reason for eliminating them
from your menu simply because the
weather has turned warm. Merely cut
down the quantity. When the weather
Is hot there is no necessity for supplying
so much heat to the system. We do not
need so much coal to keep the human
engine going.
1t is really dangerous to drink ice
water. Water too cold and drunk in
large quantities chills and congests the
coating of the stomach. Many people
distill or filter their water to free it from
pathogenic germs and afterward add ice
to it, not knowing that the ice is just as
liable to be filled with germs as is the
water. The habit is found to result
from the ignorant belief of some people
that so-called microbes cannot live in
ice; that by bringing the water to a
freezing point these germs are killed.
But freezing produces only suspended
animation in the pathogenic germs
causing of common diseases. They
merely hibernate in ice.
Less food is needed in the summer be-
cause the body's radiation of heat is
greatly reduced. With a normal body
temperature of 9S degrees We 60 out into
the winters cold, often when the air is
zero or below. During such weather
the heat of the body is constantly being
radiated off into the cold air, which is
another way of defining the process by
which we get chilled in the winter. Bat
in the summer the air about US is so
hot-often hotter than our bodies--that
We radiate little or none of our heat
into it.
There is about as much nourishment
in pound of wheat as in pound OF
beef. Wheat is the bette food for the
working man because it is balanced
ration, containing all three of the prin-
cipal nutrient constituents Of food, which
are protein, carbohy ydrates and fats, re-
quired to produce heat and energy in
adult, and furthermore to build up tissue
in the young, while they are growing.
When a pound of meat is eaten it sup
plies only protein, which is the element
which builds tissue. Adults need cer-
tain amount of protein to build up the
waste tissues, but they do not need
nearly so much as the growing boy or
girl.
The average full-grown American daily
consumes II grams of protein. The
leading Psychologists believe that IL
grams would be entirely sufficient. In
other words, we should eat about two
thirds as much as We do.
In the summer we should eat more
of the succulent foods of the vegetable
class and less of the concentrated foods
of the animal category. While we
should eat less in hot weather we must
never keep the stomach empty. The
stomach and intestines need to be dis
tended. Should the nutrient constitu-
ents be extracted from hay and fed to a
horse in concentrated form the animal
would die. The human stomach as we'll
as that of horse needs large amount
of indigestibls material to keep the ali
mentary canal open.
Potatoes and fat meat are the best
foods for the laboring man, also sugar
syrup. A lump of sugar will restore
elasticity to the muscles Of tired man
as promptly as will alcohol. and the ad-
vantage of the sugar is the absence Of a
harmful reaction"