The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-25
WHAT CAUSED THE
LOSS OF MANS HAIR
When Mankind Stopped
Eating Nuts Era of
Badness Began
From the New York American.

From the New York American
Clothing has had little to do with mans
loss of the hairy covering, as appears
from a comparison of clothed and un-
clothed men in the same latitude
Hair is a horny growth, just like feath-
ers, wood, nails hoofs, claws and horns,
requiring slicious earth for it's forma-
ton. All animals with great horn de-.
Aeiopment feed upon food rich in silicates,
especially grass-for example. horned cat
tie, deer, elephants, who have not only
great tusks, but horny hides. Birds. which
require large amount of slicates for
their dietary by eating sand and gravel
The wonderful digestive power of the
fowls gizzard is well known. Italian in
Vestisators have found massive grass
balls crushed to powder in the gizzards
of fowls. Spalianzani experimental with
turkey cock, feeding him u sharp steel
points in an electuary or cake and he
found, after Is hours, when he opened the
eizzard that the little blades were broken
up and not one had even scraped the in
terror 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 silicates
TENDS to reduce the formation of horny
substances in animal or man, thus re-
ducing the strength of the bones, causing
them to lay eggs with leather shells. That
III sdeep a cnange in diet produces less
in growth of wool has been proved by
taking sheep from Tripoli to Fessan
where, after two years, they almost al
together lost their wool. In Fessan they
did not find the luxuriant grass to which
they had been accustomed, for in F'essan
everyone lives on dates-camels, horses
dogs. even, and man.
That our domestic swine. which are
descended from the lairy-ristled wild
hogs, became almost hairless can be at
tributed to nothing else than the lack of
slicate in their food. The change of
the color of thk skin from the dark color
of the wild hog to the almost white skin
,of the domestic swine may also be at
tributed to- the change from the natural
food, consisting of fruits. nuts and roots,
to the food we give our domestic swine,
which consists SO largely of milk and
has salt added thereto, the great bleacher
1t is. therefore, more than suggested
that man became naked and lost most
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 .tyigs, but as fruit de-
Igveloped their finer flavor man ate more
Of these and less of the more tasteless
herbs and twigs, thus diminishing the
supply of slicates and at the same tnie
decrea sing 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
covering than negroes. Malays and In
dians. =
But as of late the Europeans are ceas-
ing to eat whole wheat bread, making
their bread chiefly of the inside of the
grains and omitting the rich outside so
full of silicates, the hairy covering is be-
ing affected, even so far as to increase
the tendency to badness and thrinness
of the hair on the head. The thinning of
the hair in prehistoric man began first in
the stomach side, which was less exposed
to irritation by sun and rain than the
back, as II 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 in ,ths caae
with the women. The persistence of this
practice throughout generations resulted
in the weakening and final destruction
of these organs in the skin which lend to
Fproduce hair. thus accounting for the gen
eral ,beardlessness of women.
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