The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1917-10-14
biological and energy-produclng val

siological and energy-produclng val
ues.
The president of this ociety is Mr..
r. W. Lockwood. TO wnom 1 am
indebted for information concerning
its objects and operations.
NO discovery of the past fifty
year." says Mr.. Lockwood, "in the
field Of health investigation exceeds
in importance the recent discovery
that the stomach and intestinal tract
are the seat OF 30 per cent of all
sickness. 1t means that of all the
maladies. little and big, which affiict
the human family. nine out of ten
are directly due to wrong eating
habits.
The body may be compared with
q furnace: the spark of life depends
upon heat energy to keep II afiame:
We produce the necessary heat from
fuel-food. air and water. But what
careles firemenl we are! Some of
the meals which we are accustomed
TO eat have about the same effect
on the system as dynamite, soggy
wood and mud. mixed with a little
coal, would have on a real furnace
The trouble is that certain wrong
combinations of good foods will not
mix In the stomach. Instead thew
act and react chemically upon each
other, liberating quantities of gas
and acid-they may be said liter
ally to explode within us-then they
SLOWLY pass on to the intestines
where they proceed to decompose
and ferment.
IT Is not surprising when we
think OF how the present generation
eats, tempted by the bewildering
variety OF food combinations which
are so skifully designed to tickle
the palate. that diseases which ORR
mate in the stomach, liver and kid
neys have more than doubled within
the past thirty years.
We are rendered inca pable of or
test physical and mental efforts. rob
eed Of our powers of endurance. and
made easy victims of disease, not
~ what we eat but because of how
we eat-the uninteHisent way in which
We combine our foods. To. eat good.
hourlshing food is no: necessarily to
eat Tor the best rcrults. For MANY
toods which we have long regarded
~ nutritious have little food value
Or, when they are Combined with GER
G.ln other foods, perhaps none at
All On the oths- hand many foods
Wnlch we like but have been warn
"a 10 let alone, are not necesss rily
harmful when eaten in mcdeintion. 1,
only care be taken in combi. ing them
win others so that we shall NOT
taKe INTO the stomach, at the same
meal. foods which are wholly incor-
patible. '"
The other half OF the newly dis.
covered scientific truth is easily erasn-
ed. For Just as wrong combinations
OF good foods impair our health. Grim
pie our energies, paralyze our facuI-
ties ana destroy our vitality, so usv
the very same foods when eaten sem
arately, or when rightly combined with
others, make the best tonic in tho
world for nourishing and building IN
the body. 0p
When you relieved your mother of
the necessity of looking after the daiIv
nourishment Of your body Won nm.
dertook it for yourself with no Other
guide than your sense of taste
Through eating foods of your own
choosing you undertook to manufac-
ture flesh. bones. muscles, nerves tjs-
sues and brain cells. How well bayo
You succeeded? What is yoIr state
OF health? Have you made as cave
fui study as you should OF vonr
Jop or fireman? Have you Learned
10 develop In your furnace the b,gh-
est degre OF power and efficiency
, or nave you given less thought 70
.ne care and nourishment of your
oooy and its organs than to how Won
Sn ns ciotne and decorate it? In
WORD, does the average man deserve
10 De trusted with the sole care of 90
his body?
Let US see to what an extent our
careless eating habits are to blame
Ior sickness and shortened lives. We
may even find an answer to the i'm
portant question: why are Ameri-
cans dying at an average age of 4s
years?"
For hundreds of years We have
largely inherited our religious faiths
from our parents, blindly accepting
their conclusions as law. The political
beliefs Of thousands Of present-day
voters were similarly acquired from
their sires and grahdsires. And when
we seek the origin of our eating hab-
Its We find that instead of being
founded on any actual personal knowl-
edge or intelligent understanding of
different foods they are simply in
herited habits.
1--WE eat certain products Of the soil
and the flesh Of certain animals and
refuse others without ever asking our
selves why; usually for no other rea-
son than that our ancestors accepted
and refused the same things. Had
our progenitors subsisted on the flesh
of horses and cats. horsemeat and cat |
meat would today be staples in our
diet. But because they did not, far
from investigating for ourselves the |
value Of such kinds of flesh for food, |
we spurn them and are even nause-
ated by the mere mention of them as !
possible additions to our menu.
I'VE have learned how to control |
the. growth of domestic animals
through balanced rations. We grow
nesh upon the frames Of steers, mus