Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-26
AMERICA DESTROYING HEALTH
BY COMMERCIAL FOOD FOLLIES
Bdsg Forming Foods Most Important Declares Alfred w.
McCann the Telegraphs Food Erpert

typical base forming and acid-forming
foods. All the grasses are base-form-
ing and all the seeds. with the excep-
ton of their outer layers, are acid
forming.
Hay and oats, for this reason, are
perfectly balanced food for the horse.
Gluten meal, brewers grain, distillery
waste, and beet pulp are acid-form-
ing byproducts on which the COW is
fed and under the influence of which
she becomes the victim of tuberculo-
sis
An understanding of the facts. not
now taught in any medical school in
the United States or Europe or in any
pubic of parochial school, would re-
suit in great physical blessing to
America
The deaths of the 1000 laborers who
putt those 232 miles of railway that
runs by the Candelaria graveyard
represent not only a preVentable loss
of life, due to ignorance of the laws of
nutrition, but they also represent tre-
mendous financial loss sustained by
the builders of the road. who, handi-
capped by sickness and inetficiency,
poured hundredfold more money
into the project than would have been
the case If the diet of the men had
been properly provided for in advance
and less false and short-sighted econ
omy practised
Men who are not fed cannot yield
productive energy. A sick man or
corpse cannot dig.
Thousands of healthy MONKEYS
played around the Madeira Mamore
camp. They lived, enjoyed life, chat
tered, screeched, played and fought
and maintained their energy and ac-
tivity on diet or tropical fruits and
nuts Their presence in the vicinity
OF the sick laborers, who fell as fast
as they might fall in battle, in the
presence of tons of patent flour and
thousands of loaves of bread brought
from New York City, seemed to be an
effort of Mother Nature to speak to
her unfortunate human children and
through the health of those monkeys
suggest the remedy
The food of the monkeys was avail
able. 1t was base-forming food, but
the men, who even as laborers, had
conceived astonishing ideas of class
distinction, had already dubbed 1t
monkey food"
The twenty physicians in camp, even
had they known that this monkey
food"would have saved the lives of the
men. would doubtless have had diff
Guilty in inducing them to partake of
it.
With respect to his food man has
ever been a contradiction and a fool.
He is not interested in the fixed laws
which control the processes of nutri-
ton, however simple, obvious. or lu-
minous they may be.
He alone is the one animal that ig-
nores these laws. The Great White
Plague, cancer, Bright's disease, dia-
betes, appendicitis. heart disease, con-
stipation, and most of the other ills di-
rectly traceable to inadequate food,
through the use of which the human
body is deprived of the elements nee
essary to maintain its integrity, could
in large measure be banished from the
human race if the human race would
deliberately apply to it's dietary the
fixed laws which control the resistance
of the sheep and the horse to the
same diseases and the disregard of
which makes the cow and the hog a
constant prey to them.
Properly interpreted the Madeira
Mamore episode brings home to the
American people the Importance and
the significance of understanding their
food supply and of making a belated
resistance to the inroads which COM
mercialism, stupidity and artificial
taste standards are making upon them
and upon their children. We shall
soon make our case complete.