The Semi-weekly leader., 1922-11-22

under direction of Lyon and Healy
of Chicago, twenty-five years ago,
won the attention of his audience
from the beginning.
AS result Of his ignorance of
foods and their effect, Mr.. McFerrin
lost the use of both hands and be-
came unable to walk, he said. An
extended study Of the subject en-
abled him to regain his health. and
he is now sharing this knowledge
with public sorely in need Of it.
The Importance of the subject of
dietetics is attested by the fact that
leading New York hotel has upon
its staff an expert dietitian who pre-
pares special menus for guests afflic-
ted with rheumatism, diabetes, etc.
The work of this food specialist also
maintains the health of the one thou
sand hotel employees, not one of
whom has suffered from illness DUR
ing his service.
The speaker discussed the sale by
inscriptions persons of food made
of materials intrinsically unfit for use
of food unfit by reason of age and
of food treated to make it appear at
tractive to the eye, at the expense
of the stomach The treating of
dried peaches with sulphur fumes he
gave as an example of the latter.
The great increase of kidney trou-
ble-48 per cent in Chicago, So per
cent in Memphis and 152 per cent
fin New York, he attributed largely to
harmful methods pursued in making
food attractive to the eye.
Another cause of i'll health was
filth in foods.
Sometimes sickness is caused by
the wrong state of mind. Attention
may be given to business matters or
to reading while eating, only at the
expense of digestion. Seedlings and
quarrels at table produce ill health.
In ability to sleep is very often due
to eating foods which make bad COM
binations.
Sometimes bodies become too full
of carbon from eating too much oily
food. The amount of carbon in foods
is unknown to most peole--in chick
en- there are two parts of carbon
in ham, thirty-two.
Certain foods, harmless in them
selves, are bad when eaten with 9TH
ers. Among the bad combinations,
the speaker mentioned rice and to-
matoes; spaghetti and tomatoes; can
ned corn and Waldorf salad; fruit
salad containing orange, and cocoa;
peaches and sweet potatoes. A
knowledge of the proper combina-
tions will result in a substantial saw
ing in the grocery bill. usually sew
eral dollars a week.
The speaker said that goitre was
practically never seen in seacoast
towns where iodine needed by the
human system was supplied in raw
oysters, shrimp and other sea foods.
English peas, water cress and carrots
contain some iodine.
Phosphorus, another element whose
lack OCCASIONS much i'll health is also
supplied in sea-foods and in cabbage
and brown rice the 4nbleached
grain. Nervous wrecks have been
restored through drinking water in
which the brown rice filings were
cooked.
Brown sugar is bone builder,
while white sugar robs the body of
calcium. Milk cannot be expected to
supply calcium for teeth and bone
structure If obtained from COW that
has been bred. The old way Of breed
ing cows infrequently was best be-
cause the milk from the INBRED COW
alone possesses the high food value.
People should undergo physical ex-
animation by physicians, and use the
doctor to keep them in health instead
of letting themselves go on the scrap
heap.
The three. vitamines are ex-
ceedingly important. Sauerkraut
contains all and is a nerve roster.
DR.. Wiley says sauerkraut has all
the vitamines and contains 291 parts
of nutrition against parts in white
rice.
Silica needed in the body is found
in figs, oatmeal and cucumbers.
Certain foods are mucus forming
Among them is grits, unless it is the
old-fashioned kind ground with the
germ left in. "A weevil is too smart
TO eat modern grits." said Mr.. Nc
Ferrin.
The injurious effects of much
soap in bathing were said to contri
butte to kidney trouble. The burden
Iof elimination intended ito be shared
1 by the skin was too great for tht
Kidneys wheh the skin was rendered
useless by the removal of all its Gil
Contracting and relaxing foods
l'were touched upon.
A lecture for women was announc
ed for Tuesday afternoon at fou
O'Clock, and one will be given at tn,
Public School at time not yet set
tiled. A lecture for Whitworth Col
| lege students was given in the y. w
EC. A. building.
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