Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1914-08-21
QUESTIONS OF FOOD.

organic bodies-anything that sus-
tains, nourishes and augments life;
anything that will supply the mate
rial required to repair the waste ac-
companying the vital processes-is
food.
Beginning with pins, needles and
buttons, everything we as infants can
lay hands on that is not too large, and
in the emergency Of having nothing
else available, even our own fingers
and toes, are showed into our mouths
and a strenuous effort made to swal-
low them under the promptings of an
instinct we know as appetite.
Appetite has its origin in body
needs, and inasmuch as the body is
continuously consuming energy appe-
tite manifests two strong characters
tics: periodic recurrence and organic
necessity.
The average individual attributes
far too much importance to the ques-
ton of diet. Hence we have the
countless fads-vegetarianism red
meat, white meat, fruit and nut diet,
buttermilk drinking, no breakfast, one
meal a day or six meals a day.
Experts divide foodstuffs into six
groups: Water carbohydrates, pro-
teins, fats, refuse and ash. The two
divisions of refuse" and lash" are
persistently and exasperatingly ig.
nored as having little if any meaning
and are not considered of any signifi-
canoe or Importance by most food "ex-
perts." The refuse" division consists
Of the bones of meat and fish, shells
Of shellfsh, skin Of potatoes, apples,
pears and peaches, the bran of wheat
and of other cereals. Not only are
these two divisions ignored, but stupid
chemists and pathologists are not
wanting who assert that I'VE are pro.
foundry ignorant as to the actual pro-
cesses Of digestion, therefore we
should not give much consideration to
mineral contents" etc.
Acting on this authority, some al
legged experts" emphatically state
this insoluble refuse" is either I'M
necessary or even injurious, forgetting
that there is a class of "insoluble sub
b, stance" demonstrating a property OF
matter we'll known to science and now
generally and very proitably used in
the manufacturing industries under
the name catalysis.
A catalyst is a thing which may lie
in a vessel seemingly inert and yet by
its mere presence dictate what shall
or shall not take place therein. A
small quantity of catalyst will bring
about the Transformation of enormous
ly large quantities Of substance which
lie in it's presence, and at the end OF
the reactions the catalyst will have
the same physical and chemical
properties as it had In the beginning
of the action. A mere trace of a for
eign ''insoluble" body may make an
other insoluble body soluble. There is
newer, a deeper knowledge thai
must be reckoned with, a knowledge
making it very clear that there il
nothing insignificant in this universe
and that quantity alone does not gov
ern the importance of anything in the
physical economy.
All the engines (digestives) arr
catalyZers. Pepsin, yeast, diastase
rennet, trypsin, ptyalin, zymase
amylopepsin and undoubtedly other
we do not yet know exert a profound
} influence on living things about us
! Many of these ferments are found II
grains and in saliva and the other di
gestive juices and in every cell Of on
, bodies. As many as dozen hav
| been found in the liver cell. Ferment
are of profound importance and We
/ we calmly kill them with harmless
: preservatives and by mechanics
3 means in preparing the now popula
devitalized 'blondined" foods.
Anemic, nervous, muscle twitchin
: men and women are suffering fror
starvation-and often a starvation I
| they do not know how to pick foo
t values.
+ A handful of fertile earth contain
/ sixteen or more elements and anon
g these, for instance will be phosphoru
\ in the proportion of one in 1000: If
t Is not there then starvation, povert
o and death are in that soil. Our boot
gastric juice, saliva, bile and othe
+ vital fluids are composed of miner;
e salts in solution. A drop of the bloc
|, contains many millions of corpuscle
n red and white, and some fourtee
n chemical elements, all having a de-
Q mite work to do. They are not theI
d through accident and they can e
o there only through the food we co
l. sumo. Eliminate any one of these ell
Y ments and there will be trouble
q We dare not longer stand aloof fro
o the progress made in science ar
s segregate the human race as som
n thing apart from the balance of IL
s physical universe. Our differentiatic
n is arbitrary stupid and unscientifit
n we cannot, like the western bronch
stand hitched" to an idea and pro