The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-09-06

DR.. J. NJ Thurston Of this city, one
Of Americas foremost medical scien-
lists, an authority on dietetics and
nervous and mental diseases, has com.
piled a pamphlet OF Co kerry Dont's"
and Eating Dont's." which he is now
distributing to his friends.
IT humans lived properly-ate only
what is good for them, properly cook
ed, took the right kind Of exercise, alb
stained from vices and retired early
and slept in we'll ventilated rooms
then man would only reach the prime
Of life at the age of sixty. and, gen.
orally speaking. live to ripe old age
believe the average life of humans
would be increased from seventy to at
least one hundred years" said Dr.
Thurston today. He added that he
hoped to be still practicing his pro.
fession when he was ninety years old
He observed his seventy-fifth birthday
on July 2, this year.
Listed among DR.. Thurston's Cook
err. Dont's" are the following:
Cookery Dont's.
Don't cook vegetables with meat;
saturating starchy foods (all vege.
tables are more or less starchy) with
the grease OF meats renders them in
digestible and the food-values Of each
incompatible loading the system with
poisonous ptomains and causing dis
ease.
Don't cook fruit, green or dried,
with sugar. 1t spoils the fruit by
toughening it, and spells the food-value
of the sugar; cooking fruit without
cane sugar develops the grape sugar
inherent in all fruit, which Is a tonic
and laxative to liver, stomach and
bowels. II the fruit is not sweet
enough, sweeten to taste as it is
eaten, but always use cane sugar.
sparingly.
Don't use the frying pan Throw it
In the alley If you are so unfortunate
as to have one. Boil, stew, broil, bake,
roast, but never fry.
Don't cook everything in the kitchen
and pantry too, into one countless pot
luck mess. Senseless, unbalanced,
complex mixture cooking and eating
is the physically objectionable sin of
modern society Plain unmixed diet
is the touch-stone of good health, ef-
ficiency and the deepest joys of life.
Don't cook a meal as you would
crank an automobile. Cook all foods
intended for cooking thoroughly done.
Serving eggs only partly cooked is
meaner than sucking blind hens
eggs; and eating so-called rare" meat
cheats the dog out of his inalienable
rights.
Found in his list of Eating Dont's"
are the following items
Eating Dont's. ,--
Don't bolt food and drink, swallow
ing chunks a size larger than your
shirt collar and swill down a gallon
of red hot, or ice cold drink at one
gulp. Chew. chew, chew the food and
chew the drink all at very moderate
temperature, warm or cool; insalivate
thoroughly drink as we'll as solid food
any kind of drink or any kind of liquid
food such as soups, broths. etc, should
be taken only mouthful at a time,
with the lips closed press the teeth
forcibly together three or four times
before swallowing.
Don't wash mouthful of food down
with drink. If food is properly chewed
and insalivated it will slip down the
throat without any help; never take
drink with food in mouth. chew we'll
and swallow before you drink; then
you can chew the drink also.
Don't cram the mouth with every
thing on the table and in the pantry
too. Mix the food in the stomach, not
in the mouth before swallowing it:
the digestive apparatus must unmix if
foods have been mixed in the mouth
and more than half will spoil in the
stomach as in a garbage can before
it can be unmixed, causing all kinds