The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1914-12-11
Copyright. 1914. by A. S. Gray)
WrAMlNE FOODS.


Oh feeding. Plants are essentially con
structive and work up for themselve,
the simplest inorganic elements into
1000. Animals. on the other hand, are
essentially destructive and can make
use OF these same elements only by de
stroylng the combinations arranged BIZ
the plants and recombining and ex
creting them In such forms as are alb
solutely useless for animal food until
they are once more worked up by the
pants All the carbohy the
starches and sugars, all the nitrogen
compounds and the proteins, are ulti-
mately provided for the whole animal
world by the plant world Obviously,
we have here cycle analogous to cy.
c-es to be found everywhere through
out nature, from which we may--but
seemingly will not-learn. In this cy.
Gle the animal Is found to be parasitic,
and man Is about the most hopelessly
parasitic OF all. because his sublime
egotism blinds him to the fact that he
is out single link In an incompre-
hensfble chain OF universal life.
TO interfere with natures plans, with
dire results, and only very recently
nave we generally begun to suspect
that the key to the solution OF our
serious Ills, both physical and social,
and covering disease. poverty and
crime, Is to be found in a comprehen-
sion OF the subject OF nutrition. Very
obviously. then, the study of nutrition
ID worth while and must begin at the
foundation, with the breathing and
drinking of plants and their reactions
TO light, heat and gravitation.
Eykeman in 1892 called attention to
3 peculiar relationship between beri-
Peri and polished rice, and he followed
1t up from time to time for some four
teen years. Gryns joined In the quest
In. 1910, and In 1911 Fraser and Stan
ton quite definitely proved that the
corticle layer Of rice contains a sub
stance which cures beri-beri in man
and the polyneuritis that is produced
In birds by feeding them on polished
rice. Then Casimir Funk in 1911 iso-
lated from the material ground from
the surface of rice in polishing it def
mite crystalline body with which he
cured polyneuritis Induced in pigeons
by feeding them on ordinary polished
rice.
Funk named this substance vita
mlne,' because it constitutes a subs
lance in foods indispensable to life.
The vitamines are contained In the
hard, colored shell that is ground of
rice to produce nice white product,
and 1t is in the hard protective coat
or the wheat berry which constitutes
about l6 per cent of the grain. The
bran of the milling process, as re-
moved by the steel rolls, includes the
aleurone layer, together with the peri |
carp, the tesla and the germ; these
are starchless but rich in fats and min
e~als, and besides they contain the
newly discovered vitamines.
The vitamines are heterogeneous bod |
les of highly complex structure and
no diet is complete without them. |
Vitamines are found in plants, and |
especially in their seeds. So far as Ia
known at present, animals are mean |
able OF making them and obtain them |
only by feeding on plants. Vitamines |
occur in meat, fresh milk and in the |
yolks of eggs. They are found in
whole grains, potatoes, carrots. beans. /
peas, lentils and theSlike; also in lime |
and in other fresh fruit juices.
Vitamines are destroyed by expos-
ure for from ten to twenty minutes to
temperature of $50 to 265 degrees
Fahrenheit and also by exposure to
extreme dryness. Cattle may suffer
from a MEANINGLESS diet following a
long drought. All this substantiates
the theories advanced by the late Ed
ward Atkinson prior to 1890 as to the
deleterious effects OF cooking human
foodstuffs at high temperatures and
should lead 70 a revival of interest in
his Aladdin oven" patented by him
and dedicated to the use of the Amer
lean people.
Wherever any cereal robbed of it's
colored aleurone or vitamne LAYER
for ms the chief food of a people. there
a deficiency disease appears. The
chief increase of beri-beri, caused by
eating polished rice and resulting in
thousands Of deaths annually in japan
and other countries. comedies with the
replacement of the primitive stone
grinding by the modern steel roller
process. The stone mills ground the
entire grain the modern rolls enable
the miller to reject from the -four prac-
ucally everything but the starch.
A diet largely composed of sserilized
milk, condensed milk, corn lours,
starch and sugar, or of any foods sub
iected for long period to tempera.
lures above $50 degrees. may be con-
sidered MEANINGLESS diet, and, as such,
will predispose to tuberculosis and the
deficiency diseases.
White flours. corn fiours and pol
shed rice are deficient foods, because
he vitamines have been Nremoved 10
hs milling process But in the face