The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-04
Fundamental |
Principles Of I
| Health&g&S|
By ALBERT S. GRAY, M. D. |
copyright. 1914. by A. S. Cray
FOOD AND DELlNQUENTS.

Icss ulspdtcn cTeultS 1naTleb ". -.
Hilles, formerly private secretary to
President Taft, now president of the
New York Juvenile asylum in Dobbs
Ferry, with the discovery that bad
teeth make bad boys.
What is the cause of bad teeth In
children under fifteen years OF age?
1t is universally admitted that the
fundamental cause of the early decay
OF childrens teeth Is anemia, a lack
OF sufficient building material during
the growing period. Obviously lack
OF brick and mortar will result in an
imperfect building, and the same lack
OF material must result in an imper-
feet body.
Mr.. Hillee is not the discoverer of
this truth, but none the less he is en-
titled to great credit for recognizing
and taking practical steps to combat a
dangerous condition that many for
eign governments are making strenu
GUS efforts to overcome.
In the parliamentary debate on free
meals, March q, 1905, Sir William
Arson, then British parliamentary Sec
rotary to the board of education, re-
plying to Messrs. Kier Hardie and Will
liam Crooks, admitted that in the day
Industrial schools, where the children
had three meals day, he found them
bright and intelligent and being de-
veloped physically and mentally In q
satisfactory way" Although the chill
dren lived at home the regular and
wholesome supply Of food was SO po-
tent factor that their condition was
thoroughly satisfactory"
Wilson Bruce. following other wit
nesses before the Scottish commission
in pointing out the startling superior
ity of industrial school children, added
that il we fed and clothed the elemen-
tary school children as suitably we
should make a new race Of them"
The commissioners noted this con-
trast between the ill-nourished ele-
mentary school children of respectable
parents and well-developed industrial
school children of those who have al
together failed in their duty
The countess of Warwick, writing
IN "A Nations Youth" says: What a
fine moral have we here. Be a bad
parent or confess yourself unable to
control your own children, and they
will be attached to an industrial
school, given three meals a day, large
ly at the expense of the ratepayers,
and they will become bright and in
telligent boys, developed physically
and mentally In satisfactory way"
This touches upon and brings sharp
ly to the front the whole subject of
sophisticated foods around which a
commercial battle royal is at present
raging in this country. In no field of
knowledge is there SO general lack
of personal information founded on
experience as in the fundamental one
OF food. 1t is generally admitted, and
there are hundreds Of proofs OF the
, proposition, that man, through the
results of centuries of civilization, has
gradually lost the instinct of nourish-
ing himself until he has become the
most helpless and dependent of all
, animals. Left to themselves under
, normal conditions, the beasts, guided
, by an innate instinct, select natural
foods that enable them to live with.
out disease. Man, on the other hand
has not only lost this instinct that the
beast still possesses, but as the result
!. of the misuse Of his intelligence and
his freedom to select food for himself
and for such OF the beasts as he has
I, turned to domestic uses, deliberately
imposes preventable diseases upon
: both himself and them.
. Eating has become an art which has
to be learned by man, and unfortu
:, nately the subject is considered SO un
important that quite generally ouI
foods are selected on the statement Of
persons whose only interest is in the
, profit to be derived from the manu-
facture and sale OF the commodity
and then after the purchase In thii
slipshod manner 1t Is too frequently
turned over to some incompetent
kitchen drudge to be prepared for eat
ing.
In order that an intelligent choice
OF proper diet may be made it Is alb
solutely necessary that we should pos
sess a certain smattering of scientific
knowledge. This does not consist In
= the memorixing OF few terms sum
cient to enable us to babble about car
bohydrates, proteins and fats. of Gallo
y ries and OF balanced rations, but t.
!, have a thorough understanding of the
real meaning of the closing paragraph
: OF the fourth article of this series
: which we here again repeat for EN-
phasis: THE now prevailing standard
of food values which measures the
heat units produced from foods anc
completely ignores all other elements
L and factors is not only woefully made
quate In the light Of modern science
Il but constitutes grave menace to the
l. health, to the morals, to the sanity
} and to the life Of any people"
? The chief reason for the improve
u ment in inmates of well-governet
asylums and industrial schools ovel