The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-23
HOME HEALTH CLUB
(Edfted by Dr. David H. Reeder, Chi
 


 eago)
 Cooking kills: There are certain elements in uncooked foods that are essential to life and health. In some foods, but not all, these elements are | killed or destroyed by cooking. Per haps there is no more striking ex- ample of this principle than in cab bage. Eaten raw and thoroughly masticated it is said to supply or ganic iron in greater abundance than 1 any other food and the beneficial eff l feet is at once apparent. It is easily digested and as much of the fiber is wasted matter, 1t supplies bulk which aids in overcoming. the form of con- | stfpation that is caused by the habit | ua1 use of condensed foods. As soon as certain degree of heat is used in l cooking it the same cabbage becomes tough and hard to digest. The or ganic iron is destroyed and but lit tie nutrirnent is left.
 With this idea before us it is not | difficult to understand why the
 Dutchman puts up an extra barrel of i sour kraut for use in case of"sickness | or why the New Englander must fore 1 go his boiled dinner of corned beef
 and cabbage when not in perfect health.
 This simple test also explains why l the laity finds prompt relief and
 speedy cures through the use of old
 fashioned herb remedies that are 1 gathered from the fields and gardens
 and prepared as a simple infusion by | slowly sleeping or sinmering, while | the college graduate in medicine with l the famous chemist at his service, af-
 ter sterilizing, baking, boiling, fer
 menting and extracting finds nothing
 in the little plant to justify the claims l of the herb doctor. Therefore he
 argues, the patient was not suffering with the supposed disease or he was | cured by suggestion.
 | Instead of the organic iron of cab l bage. peaches, grapes and other fruits 1 and vegetables, the chemist prepares
 a dose of inorganic iron that is ad- ministered by the doctor and presto, 1 the red blood corpuscles are at once
 increased but the ultimate effect upon i the health is, I believe, Valueless. A
 simple and harmless method of in i creasing the red blood corpuscles is | fully described in Vol. of the Home Health Club books under the heading l Pure Blood and Clear Skin.'' The 1 remedies used are at hand and no | possible harm can follow.
 L The substance of the chapter may
 be stated in a few words. The reme- dies are fresh milk and hot water, | equal parts. Instead of the usual breakfast take the juice of an orange and then place in the double boiler l one pint of sweet milk and one pint of hot water. Take only 1 tablespoon full every or 10 minutes, during the entire day Do not let the water in the double boiler get hot enough to l boil, but keep it the stove and l keep it hot. Do not take more than
 one tablespoonful at a time and not
 oftener than once in every five min- i utes and not less often than every 1 10 minutes. If a, blood test is made before, this treatment and again fn
 24 hours, a much greater and better
 change will be found than through the administration of inorganic iron
 and the anaemic patient will be ready to eat and assiniIate a, wholesome
 meal of uncooked fruits, vegetables $ land milk, with a reasonable propor-
 tion of cooked foods.
 | It is not intended that you should
 now discard cooked foods, far from
 it, but along with the cooked foods
 eat freely of the uncooked and yoU
 will be better nourished, your blood
 will be purer and the action of the
 ductIess glands will be natural an6
 effective in maintaining efficiency.