Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-25
CHAPTER 81


Physicians, parents and guardians of
children Will do well to examine into
the statement that tuberculosis chill
dren succumb more quickly when nour-
ished with sugars and stnrches and
that such children, while appearing
plump, round and xveII-nOurIshed, are
water-lOEged and show slight resist
Ing power against the invasion of d.
seRse.
We know now positively that gran
ulated sugar white bread and bis
cults, denatured cereal breakfast foods
commercial corn meal, polished rice and
glucose provide none of the alkaline
bases indispensable to health.
We know now positively that the
body is tenacious of its fixed alkaline
bases, and on diet deficient in these
bases 1t cannot long supply the neces-
| sary quantity of alkali required to neu-
| tralize the organic acids which are
daily elaborated in the blood and It's
sues as result of the decomposition
or proteins, fats and carbohy drates
! On the one hand there is a def
cheney Of bases in our refined foods and
on the other an excess of carbohy-
drates. No scientist would dare tc
claim seriously in the presence OF
these facts that a physiological equili-
prlum can be maintained permanently
on such broken balance.
Blucose. now used in the manufac-
ture of many commercial foods, in
Guiding nearly all the candies on the
market. is a mineral-free carbohydrate
OF artificial origin.
Packard says cancer is due to a diet
| or mineral-free carbohydrates
Armand Gautier has demonstrated
that the loss of minerals by excretion
is onset only by constant intake
Neither glucose nor any other refined
food contributes to this intake
Startling and Foster have demon
strated that animals fed on denim
eralized or refined food die sooner than
II not fed at all. The demineralized
canned beef, the extractives of which
were all boiled out before canning to
make beef extract and canned soup,
which caused so much sickness among
our troops during the Spanish Amer
lean war, is furher illustration of
this fact.
Prof. Wilson says mineral starva-
ton is followed by dire consequences.
Takaki, Chamberlain, and Vedder
have demonstrated that the mineral
deficiency of refined food is respon-
sible for high mortality among breast
fed infants. Mothers milk lacks min
eral matter in accordance with the
mineral deficiency of her food.
Drennin attributes the rapid course
of tuberculosis, after pregnancy, to
mineral starvation. The foetus acts
as mineral parasite, robbing the
mothers tissues unless her food sup
plies it's needs.
Caerny declares that natural immu-
nifty depends on nutrition and that one
sided nutrition with sugars, syrups and
candles destroys this immunity IN chill
dren.
Weigart reports that tuberculosis
children succumb more quickly when
nourished with sugars and starches.
The water contents of the organism is
inversely proportioned to the natural
immunity. Carbohydrate diet increases
unnecessarily the amount of water in
the tissues and prompts a rapid rise
in the body weight
Such children who appear plump.
round and well nourished, are water
logged and show slight resisting power
against infection"
Various Investigators have found
that demineralized sweets, sugar, glu-
| close. etc. give rise to many disor-
ders. Why do they exclude diabetes
from the list of these disorders when
the chief symptom of diabeter lies in
its rebellion against sugar, particu-
larly its rebellion against glucose?
Charles as far back as 1882 de-
clared: Temporary glycosuria may