The Washington times., 1922-08-13

Early WAN a. SnoWn py the An0'
Remains of Skull and Jaw of th.
Famous Piltdown Skull Discov.
cred in England.
|NI degree OF physical perfection II
'A their diet included raw meat. or.
II occasionally they would drink the warm
blood OF slaughtered animals and gnaw
the bones to the marrow and eat raw
vegetables, even grass"
This is the teaching Of Albert P. Sy,
Ph. D.. professor OF chemistry. at the Uni
versity OF Buffalo, who 10 an original
physiological and food chemist of high
standing. Professor sy has many inter
esting reasons and has carried on many
important laboratory experiments to sup
port his conclusions. IL ....".'
'Tt would be better for the human race
II the carnivorous part Of our diet were
100 per cent perfect" says DR.. sy, "and
by carnivorous don't mean cannibalistic.
BY 100 per cent mean all the different It's
sues of the animal, not simply the selected
lean meat
Civilization has caused the average
human to become too pampered. We
should not be 80 fastidious in our tastes.
We discard the most nutritive parts Of
creature. The same practice Is true IN
our preparation Of vegetables. We don't
get enough raw foods into our stomachs."
No animal includes IN its dietary so
large a variety of foods as man. In some
form or other there IL scarcely q bird.
beast, fish or vegetable that man does not
eat. Yet this worlds bill Of fare is tackled
with a digestive apparatus not entirely
adapted to the task SCI for IT, Originally
our earliest ancestors, with digestive ma.
chinery similar TO the ape. lived on nuts,
fruits, grains and eggs. This was q nat
ural diet, as It could easily be found in
the trees
Later on our cave-dwelling ancestors
who lived in the Stone Age and were not
acquainted with the art OF cooking ate
their food raw. This applied also to flesh
eating, as man by this time had become
a slayer Of other animals for food pur-
poses.
Since that time. through succeeding gen.
erations. mans gastronomic stunts have
become one OF the marvels Of civilization.
His digestive system includes no mechan.
ism like the gisssrd Of the barnyard fowl
by which It srinds its food through stones,
nor has man the quadrupie stomach Of the
COW, and yet he has cultivated tastes for
every possible kind Of food.
Perhaps, the only physical advantage
that man has over the other animals is
his long intestine. A comparison Of which
with that Of the dog. which is entirely a
meat.eating animal. and with the sheep.
which is a herb-eating animal, Is printed
on this page. This diagram shows why
this long intestine, which has proved itself
a wonderful digestive apparatus for man,
is suitable for both carnivorous and herb
ivorous foods.
Recent researches have disclosed that
In the outer covering Of green foods there
exists a substance which In some mys-
terious way greatly facilitates the diges-
ton Of food, and the lack Of which predis-
poses US to grave organic disorders. These
are called vitamines.
Dr. E. M. McCollum. Of the Johns Hop
kins University, proved by experiments
corn with oil they lived a little longer.
But when greens were added to their daily
bill of fare they waxed fat.
OF course, these experiments were cal
ried on for mans benefit. The scientists
wisely reasoned that any diet capable Of
sickening a rat would have n like effect on
man. Through these experiments regard
ing diet the doctors also discovered that
the stature, disposition and many other
important factors in life are dependent on
the food eaten.
An exclusive meat diet would make rs
dwarfs. or, at least, stunt our growth, 40
Il has the Eskimo in northern ATTITUDES,
and the Batwas and the wambuties In
Africa, who live almost exclusively on
flesh food. A vegetable diet, on the other
hand, would give US the cadaverous look
Of the Japanese, Chinese and the Hindu.
The wellnourished races have always been
conquerors; the poorly nourished have
been quite as docile a. the dumb vese-
tables they cultivated.