The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-10-23
THE DIET QUESTION.

Inquiries received prove that large
numbers of persons grasp only with
great difficulty the fundamental princi
Piles of nutrition and do not readily
discriminate between pure food anc
wholesome food The demand Is foI
some specific guide or chart as tc
what to eat. This is not the road tc
good health and happiness, but quite
the contrary; because until self
knowledge and selrreliance are at
tanned the individual is subject to all
kinds OF vague and unreasoning fears
and fancies and is, therefore, continu
ously in danger Of exploitation by any
plausible faddist, with all the attend
ant dangers.
Next to rice, wheat is the most uni
versally used cereal and in this coun-
try 1t leads; therefore. more than any
other plant, wheat becomes a constitu.
ent part Of our bodies.
Wheat begins to grow at Al degrees
Fahrenheit and when the aggregate
temperature as represented by the
sum Of the daily average equals 1856
degrees the germ begins to hatch" or
escape from the husks If not too deep
ly buried. II too deeply buried, a
greater amount of heat is required pro
portionate to the depth, and if the seed
lies at depth lower than one foot
1t rarely terminates. Seedlings cease
to grow If the average temperature
for the day remains below AZ degrees
Fahrenheit. When young plants have
been subjected to an aggregate tenn
perature Of 1896 degrees Fahrenheit
from the time when sown, or of IT'S
degrees from the time Of termination,
branching goes on freely and the
young ears form. Bnder the stimulus
OF an average temperature OF b5 de
grees Fahrenheit or little above
the flowers are produced. But a still
higher daily average temperature is
required for the full development and
| ripening of the grain. An average Of
| rs degrees is most favorable to ma
turity, with abundance OF sunlight ant
rain.
| Given a matured wheat berry, what
has happened is that under the vitaliz
ing stimulus OF sunlight the engines
| and bacteria in the soil and the
plant have taken these elements, and
many others not here mentioned, Out
OF the soil and the air and bound
them together with the kinetic energy
OF the sun into molecules Of protein
carbohydrate, fat, ETC., the wheat berrS
serving as a reservoir of potential en-
ergy until a suitable machine agar
converts it into kinetic energy. AS
Stunning that the wheat plant had the
power to modify its environment by
eliminating from its diet in the sci
one or more of the elements on which
It's growth and vitality depend, We
should call 1t stupid and think 1t Justly
deserving Of the smut disease and th'
blight that would inevitably attack Il
because of the weakness resulting
from the ensuing starvation.
BY reason Of ancestral adjustments
our digestive organs are able easily
to digest, transform and utilize thii
wheat energy. The wheat berry II
food for us because 1t is develope,
practically in the same scale that WI
are. But for some strange reason WI
insist on radically changing our en-
vironment by eliminating from GU
diet the most important and vital par
of the berry, thereby throwing GU
ancestral habits out OF gear and Great
ing trouble.
produces nine varieties of our flou
and three brans from the wheat berry
the original wheat showing 2.09 pc
cent ash, the flour showing .55 pc
cent ash, fine bran showing 6.55 pc
cent ash, medium bran showing 6.8
per cent ash. coarse bran showing so
per cent ash. This ash consists OF: