Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1914-11-20
DR.. Marden's
Uplift Talks
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WI HEN the celebrated Doctor Aber-
w nethy visited his rich parents he
used to 60 into the kitchen and
shake hands with the cooks and talk
to them something after this fashion:
MY good friends, owe you much.
for you confer great favors upon me.
Your skin, your genius. your delightful
art, enables us medical men to ride In
finer coaches, to live in finer houses.
Without your existence we would go
on foot and starve."
Human beings have ever been great
sufferers from their own lack Of knowL
edge of food values and the chemistry
of foods. The bad selection of foods
and bad cooking lay the foundation
for all sorts of human ills; our cooks
are adopts in life shortening. In the
majority OF families the choice of
foods is largely left to the cooks,
who give us the things they happen
to like themselves, or which they have
been accustomed to prepare, and these
| foods may not be at all adapted to
our constitution, our temperament, our
mode of living, our habits or our vo-
cation. The diet OF multitudes Of peo-
pie is, accordingly, not only badly pre-
pared, but the articles of food them
selves do not have the proper food
values and have very little bearing
upon our real needs.
There is nothing which touches hui
man life SO closely as the foods which
make our blood, build up the physique,
constantly renew, and maintain all the
tissues in the body.
There are multitudes of people who
are not really i'll, but who do not feel
right habitually, and yet they do not
know why. Their brains are heavy, they
cannot think clearly, their minds are
cloudy, their thoughts dull, and they
go to physicians who tell them that
they have no organic disease, and yet
they do not have that masterful feel
ing, that thrill Of health which we al
feel is normal to us. These people
are often suffering from the incompat
Utility of different kinds of food
which may be all right when takeT
separately, but which develop chemi
cal antagonism when taken into this
body together Or the trouble MAJ
come from their food not being prop
erly prepared, which Is the case will
multitudes of people. They may ca
too much so that all the cells of thu
body are clogged with an excess o.
nutriment, which the digestive organi
cannot take care of, and which thu
/ tissues do not need, and when thu
, blood is overloaded with nutrition, al
the organs, especially the liver, rebe
at the excess, the brain Is heavy, tn
thought labored, and the whole system
, is not only overtaxed with extra load
but is poisoned with the undigested
unassimilated food, which decompose
In the alimentary canal.
Our food is the basis of our thinl
ing, our efficiency. Our achievement
: In life, our happiness, depend upo
the food we eat, the manner of 1t
preparation and the way in which W
partake of 1t.
believe the time will come whe
that which affects the health, and th
destiny of human beings, more tina
anything else, will be under govern
mental supervision. The time wi
D come when most of our foods will b
+ selected and prepared at scientif
government stations, and every COO
will have to have a license, a COVER
70 ment certificate, just as doctor he
to be licensed to practice medicin
We shall have municipal kitchen
where the best foods will be selecte
and prepared in the most scientif
. manner, by intelligent cooks, who wi
be experts in the chemistry of fooC
and in food values. These cooks wi
. know the affinity between the diffe
ent foods. and what kinds should ne
) er be eaten together because OF the
3 natural antagonism, because they ge
. crate chemical poisons which eau
! serious trouble in the system.