Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-19

panieS Maternity Because of the
Unnatural Effort of the Mother to
Live, Before and After the Birth of
Her Child, on Refined Foods. The
Feeding of Horses For Vitality and
Strength and the Feeding of Cows
For Milk Production Teach the HUI
man Family Lessons Which Are Dis
regarded at the Expense of Mother
and Child.
The average physician, whether or
dinarily interested in food or not, be-
comes peculiarly aroused during the
CESSATION and Iactation period of his
maternity patients and the GONZALES
cling periods of all his patients.
In the CESSATION period the fetus
acts as a mineral parasite If the
mothers diet at such time is de-
ficient in the mineral salts or bases
demanded by the developing embryo,
the deficiency is made up at the eX-
pense of her own tissues, cartilages,
bones and teeth, with a corresponding
loss of vitality both for her and for
her offspring.
OF all the tragedies due to the
ignorance under which food is refined
this tragedy is the most grim and de-
pressing.
The elaboration of milk during the
lactation period without a proper
supply of food elements which are
always found in milk is followed by
the same dismal consequence. Here,
during these two most sacred periods
of woman's life, when the normal hu-
man heart goes out to the minister
ing mother in reverence, nature is
actually asked to operate without the
materials essential to the accom-
plishment of her purposes, and so she
who supports the heaviest burden of
life pays toll to folly in the form of
misery and pain.
Referring to the abstraction of
calcium salts from the mothers blood
by the fetus as the cause of the rapid
progress of tuberculosis, Drennin. in
the American Journal of Obstetrics
and Diseases of Women and Children,
May, 1913, reports that 'inasmuch as
pregnancy and lactation both deprive
the mother of lime salts there is con-
sequently less lime for the process of
Qualification of the tuberculous areas
natures method of cure in tuber-
culosis. This, therefore, accounts for
the frequent rapid course of tuber-
culosis after pregnancy, increasing
after every successive pregnancy un-
til the woman generally succumbs
after the third.
During the establishment of
functional activity following wasting
disease a deficiency of these COM
Founders of life, the mineral salts,
bases and vitamines of natural foods,
means not only slow recovery but
permanent injury depending entirely
upon the extent to which the refine
ment has been carried on.
Weston p. Chamberlain, Major
Medical Corps, United States Army,
cites the conclusions of Wellman,
which clearly indicate that the foods
upon which prospective mothers,
nursing mothers and convalescents
are most frequently asked to subsist,
such as gruels. broths, porridges, ia
rina, rice, corn starch, tapioca pud-
ding, white toast and similar types
of demineralized grains, are made
quate.
Wellman reports that fowls fed by
him developed polyneuritis on diet
of foods such as corn starch, Louisi-
ana molasses, corn grits, cream of
wheat, boiled sweet or Irish potatoes,
sago, macaroni, white bread, biscuits
and puffed rice. These are typical
forms of the refined foods of high
ca1orie value now extensively con-
sumed throughout the United States,
not only in the homes of the common
people. but in sanatoriums and hos
pitfalls as well.
In the case of sago. boiled potatoes
and corn starch. the symptoms of
paralysis occurred sooner than when
the fowls were fed on raw, highly
milled rice, showing that the mere
milling of rice in itself is only one of
many other food abuses which pave
the way to disease.
In view of these facts he declares
that it is absurd to legislate in the
United States against polished rice,
unless action is also taken against
patent flour, pearled barley. refined
rye. demineraliZed corn starch, de-
mineralized glucose. demineralized
sugar, etc, all of which refined foods
are used even more freely in the diet