The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-03
HOME HEALTH CLUB


 Food Combinations: Wherever | there is functional action there must be supplied a quantity of material to maintain that action, and there will be products of the action itself. Vii tality is no exception to the rule of nature. As long as life endures there is activity in every portion of the body, which demands material for it's maintenance and results in waste products on account of the work per formed
 Food and substances which. on a.c- count of their inherent character istics, are capable of supplying the maintain the integrity of the tissues affected by natural vital action. Vii tai force can use them to replenish the substances daily lost by secre- tions and waste. Tn infancy, child hood, and youth more foods are re- quired than would be at other periods necessary to maintain tissues and compensate for waste; for during those periods of. life. the general structures of the body. must be en- larged and solidified by normal growth. During adult and advanced life no more food is required than is just sufficient to counterba1ance nat ural waste. It is evident that foods, to be truly such, must contain the elementary substances that are a, part Of the human organism, and that those substances must be combined in such a manner and in such propor- tions as to be most easily used by the vital force in the building up of tis- sues and the comp ensation of waste.
 There are 14 elementary substances in the human body, combined in vari- ous ways. Any substance containing an element not in thisshst is a. direct poison to the body, and cannot enter the stomach without doing damage. But this does not mean that every substance containing any of these ele- sments is food. Far from it. The availability of clements for food de- bends altogether upon the manner in which they are combined. One fact. stands out -eminent1y. - AIl@-ele- mentary substances must first be ex- tracted from the earth and combined and organized by the process of vege-l tation before they can become capable of being utilized by the human or ganiSn as foods.
 9The brain contains phosphorus, the blood iron, muscular structure con- tain large quantities of nitrogen; but brain substance cannot be built up by eating elementary phosphorus; the blood cannot be improved by taking unorbanized iron into the system; pure nitrogen will not increase muscu- lar tissues But organized compounds, rich in phosphorus or iron, or nitro gen, may be utilized most advantage ous1y. Let 1t be remem bered as an absolute fact demonstrated by recog- nized scientific investigations. that no unorganized element can in any way be assfni1ated by the system and con verted into the various tissues and structures of the body.
 So carefully adjusted in the body are the various combinations of the IA elements that it is an absolute 4 4&AvN orara n health that each day every one of the IA elements, in organized comptna- tions enters into the system or course, it often happens that persons exist in apparent health for some time who are deprived Of these ete- fents but their health is only appar- ent and sooner or later the effects of the deficiencies become manifest. The complete table of foods and their nutritive value is given in full in Vol. 1 of the Home Health Club books, ana it is therefore, unnecessary to repeat it here. Evidently it is matter Of the greatest importance for us IT we would have perfect health to under stand the composition of various foods. that we may inte1ligently se- feet such articles as will be most oene- ficia1 to the system and reJect sucn as are unnecessary or harmful Put we are not all chemists and we do not all care to become such: and for that reason I am glad to give my readers the conclusions reached by in vestigators who have devoted their lives to these subjects,
 While the IA clements mentioned are distributed throughout the or ganism, yet the proportions vary greatly in different parts of the body. The muscles and labor zperform1ng structures contain the largest amount of nitrogenous compounds; the fat and substances consumed in. supply ing heat to the body contain the Iarg- est amount of carbonaceous com pounds; the brain and nerves and bones-the vital and substantial struc- lures of the body-contain the larg- est proportions of phosphorus com pounds These facts being ascertain ed, foods and correspondingly divided into three great classes:
 l. Nitrogen compounds. called nj trogenous and aIbuninous foods, or proteids These are especially adapt ed to the building up of muscular tis- sue and the supplying of materials to compensate for the loss occasfoned by