The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-08-12
FOOD HELD RESPONSIBLE
FOR MANS LOSS or HAIR.

Clothing has had little to do with
mans loss of the hairy covering, as
appears from a comparison of clothed
and unclOthed men in the same Iati-
tude.
Hair is a horny growth, just like
feathers, nails, hoofs, claws, wool and
horns, requiring silicious earth for it's
formation. All animals with great
horn development feed upon food rich
in silicates, especially grass-for ex-
ample, horned cattle, deer, elephants,
who have not only great tusks, but
horny hides. Birds, which require a
large amount of silicilates for their
dietary by eating sand and gravel. The
wonderful digestive power of the
fowls gizzard is well known. Italian
Investigators have found massive
glass balls crushed to powder in the
gizZards of fowls. Spallanzani expert
mented with a turkey cock, feeding
him twelve sharp steel points in an
electuary, or cake, and he found, af-
ter eighteen hours, when he opened
the gizzard, that the little blades were
broken up and not even one had
scraped the interior of the gizzard.
Since it is plain that food rich in
silicates produces heavy growth of all
kinds, whether feathers or hair, it is
plain that food which is poor in sill
Gates tends to reduce the formation
of horny substances in animal or man,
thus reducing the strength Of the
bones, causing them ricketts,, and in
hens, causing them to lay eggs with
leather shells. That in sheep a change
in diet produces less in growth of
wool has been proved by taking sheep
from Tripoli to Fessan, where, after
two years, they almost altogether lost
their wool. In Fessan they did not find
the luXuriant grass to which they had
been accustomed, for in Fessan every
one lives on dates-camels, horses,
dogs, even, and man.
That our domestic swine which are
descended from the hairy-bristled wild
hhOgs, becomes almost hairless can be
attributed to nothing else than the
lack of silicate in their food. The
change of the color of the skin from
the dark color of the wild hog to the
almost white skin of the domestic
swine may also be attributed to the
change from the natural food, consist
! ing of fruits, nuts and roots, to the
| food we gave our domestic swine
which consists largely of milk, and
has salt added thereto, the great
/ bleacher.
| 1t is therefore, more than suggested
! that man became naked and lost more
of his hairy covering because his food
! lacks silicates. In prehistoric ages,
when fruits had not developed their
! fine taste or been cultivated by man
| to that end, prehistoric man, like the
anthropoid apes of our day, ate largely
of vegetables, buds and young twigs,
! but as fruits developed their finer fla
vOr man ate more of these and less
of the more tasteleSS herbs and tWigs,
thus diminishing the supply of silicates
and at the same time diminishing his
hairy covering. When they ate only
the inside of the bananas and threw
away the skins they threw away their
own skin-covering at the same time
/ They began to supply something of the
silicate to the human system again
when man began to eat wheat and
grains of other kinds, and for this
reason the white races of Europe have
more Of hairy covering than negroes,
Malays and Indians.
ceasing to eat whole-wheat bread,
making their bread chiefly of the in
side of the grains and emitting the
rich outside, so full of silicates, the
hairy covering is being affected, even
so far as to increase the tendency to
| badness and thinness of the hair on
the head. The thinning of the hair
| i'll prehistoric man began first in the
stomach side, which was less exposed
! to irritation by sun and rain than the
back, as it was natural to protect the
face from the play of the elements.
Among many savage nations it is
the practice to pull out the hair on
the face by the roots, and especially
| is this the case with the women. The
persistence of this practice throughout
generations resulted in the weakening
! and final destruction of these organs
in the skin which tend to produce
hair, thus accounting for the general
! beardleSsneSS of woman.