The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-10-17
DR.. Marden's
Uplift Talks
BY oRIsoN SWEET MARDEN.

Copyright by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
NHT HEN the celebrated Doctor Aber-
w nethy visited his rich parents he
used to go into the kitchen and
shake hands with the cooks and talk
to them something after this fashion:
MY good friends, l owe you much,
for you confer great favors upon me.
Your skill, 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 all
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 taken
separately, but which develop chemi-
cal ~antagonism when taken into the
body together. Or the trouble may
come from their food not being prop
erly prepared, which is the case with
m~ultitudes of people. They may eat
too much so that all the cells of the
body are clogged with an excess of
nutriment, which the digestive organs
cannot take care of, and which the
tissues do not need, and when the
blood is overloaded with nutrition, all
the organs, especially the liver. rebel
at the excess, the brain is heavy, the
thsught labored, and the whole system
is not only overtaXed with extra load
but is poisoned with the u~ndigested
unassimilated food, which decompose!
in the alimentary canal.
Our food is the basis of our think
ing, our efficiency. Our achievements
in life, our happiness, depend upon
the food we eat, the manner of its
preparation and the way in which We
partake of it.
l believe the time will come when
that which affects the health, and the
destiny of human beings, more than
anything else, will be under govern
mental supervision. The time will
come when most of our foods will be
selected and prepared at scientific
government stations, and every cool
will have to have a license, a govern
ment certificate, just as a doctor has
to be licensed to practice medicine
We shall have municipal kitchens
where the best foods will be selected
and prepared in the most scientific
manner, by intelligent cooks, who will
be experts in the chemistry of foods
and in food values. These cooks will
know the affinity between the differ
ent foods, and what kinds should new
er be eaten together because of theil
natural a~ntagonism, because they gen
crate chemical poisons which cause
serious trouble in the system.