Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-09-02
Copyright. 1914. by A. S. Cray
ORGANIC FOOD.


practically all our illness is due to the
fact that we persist in seeing things
as we think they are, rather than as
they actually exist Either we are
unable to see or we refuse to recog-
nize existing conditions until we are
bend what we believed
We know that inorganic life pre-
coded the organic and it is quite def
nitely settled that the secret of or
ganic life is bound up in the action of
chlorophyl, the green coloring matter
OF plants 1t is exactly analogous to
the red coloring matter of our blood,
which is known as hemoglobin Chlor-
ophyl, under the action of sunlight,
condenses and converts inorganic
matter into food for organic life.
From the primitive inorganic matter
under the influence of sunlight the
green plants prepare starches, sugars,
oils and proteid materials which con-
stitute the substance of various plant
species, and man either directly or in
directly lives on this plant life. We
are absolutely without ability to live
directly on inorganic matter.
Admitting our dependence on plant
life, it is curious that we do not more
readily grasp and profit by the close
analogies to be drawn between plant
and animal. A vast amount of hu-
man poverty, disease, crime and agony
cil h1
only bring ourselves to see that plant
and man are but different parts of the
same life stream, just as red and vio-
let are but two separate parts of the
same white light.
sap; the vital fluid of man we call
blood, but blood and sap are the same
in function. Each circulates through
the body and acts as the common car
rier to convey food to the individual
cells and to carry away the refuse.
The problems of life itself can be
solved only by the study of what takes
place in the minute portions of the in
dividual cells.
We know that if soil is not rich
that is, if it does not contain food mat
ter-it will not produce much in the
way of a crop return. We have evil
dence of this in the fact that one soil
will produce 237 bushels of corn to
the acre and another only ten bushels,
and closer study will develop the sig
nificant fact that the seed from the
larger crop is the more hardy and the
plants grown therefrom do not so
readily become infected with plant
diseases. Analysis of the soils will
invariably show that the soil that pro-
duced the large crop is abundantly
supplied with at least sixteen mineral
elements, while the soil producing
small crops is very deficient in most
and totally lacking in some mineral
elements.
The application of these facts is
easily seen in the case of human NAL
nutrition If one is run down, weak
and anemic, it is found that the blood
is deficient in iron and perhaps in
other mineral salts-although up to
the present time but little attention
has been given to anything but iron
and an effort is made to supply the
deficiency by giving the patient some
form of inorganic iron.
Anemia is well known to be most
difficult disease to combat, and with
out doubt the reason for this is that
we have been trying to do the impos-
sible. We have been trying to force
our digestive organs to assimilate in
organic matter and our organization
was never constructed to achieve that
end. We have reached the present
stage of animal development by eat
ing vegetable matter containing iron
and other organized elements or by
eating other animals that have eaten
vegetable matter containing iron.
Socin fed two groups of mice to
prove this point. To one group ne
gave food free from iron but added
medicinal iron in the form OF the IN
organic iron chloride; to the other
group he gave the same iron-free diet
but added to it egg yolk containing
iron in highly organized form All
the mice on the artificial iron diet
died before the thirty-third day of the
experiment, while the other group OF
mice fed with iron as prepared by
nature lived and gained in weight.
The same principle applies In the
| matter of meat diet. Foster fed dogs
on ash-free fats and carbohydrates
and on meats from which the salts
had been extracted by soaking in dis
titled water, and the animals died IN
from twenty-six to thirty-six days. 1t
Is clear from this that it is just as I'M
portant that we have mineral matter
in our blood as it is that the plants
shall have 1t in their sap, and II Is que
to the fact that we are not receiving
these elements In normal amount that
we are having so much illness.
eI1ruJv starving ourselves