Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-06
USE JUDGMENT
REAL VALUE OF THE NATURAL
FOOD is NEGLECTED
More Attention Often Paid to Feeding
Animals Than to Children in
Average American Home
Labor Press League Health Service
Copyright 1923, by DR.. P. l.. Clark

The average father and mother
have not the slightest idea how to
feed either themselves or their chill
dren.
In this regard, they are much more
ignorant than any ordinary stock
raiser, for a breeder of hogs knows
more about what foods are good for
his animals than most parents know
about the foods that are good for
their own flesh and blood.
Over in Ohio is man who raises
high grade horses. So particular is
he as to what these horses eat, that
only hay which is cured with the
greatest care and in a certain way is
permitted to be fed to the animals.
When oats are selling ordinarily for
siXty-eight cents a bushel, he sends
away for a particular kind of high
grade oats and pays $1.25 a bushel
in order that these high bred horses
of his may have the very finest food
that money can buy.
Don't you think it about time that
human beings made some study of
what is fit to put into their human ma
chimes and the combinations in ac-
cordance with known physiological
law, in which food should be eaten
1t seems to me the thing of most
vital Importance to mankind is not
so much the cure of those whose
bodies are broken almost beyond re-
pair, but the fact that the peoples of
the world may be taught to so live as
to avoid sickness. Good health, next
to the plain economic question of
food, clothing and shelter, is the most
vital problem today before the world.
Without good health, it is impossible
to secure the necessities to make ac-
tual existence possible.
When mother goes to the grocery
and buys cornf1akes which have been
robbed of their food value by con-
scienceless manufacturers and feeds
this stuff to her family, she is break
ing down the resistance of her hus-
band and breeding disease and per-
haps death among her children, and
while she is doing this, the Ohio
horseman is poring over the Govern
ment's agricultural bulletins to see
if he can find anything of greater
You wives and mothers, please un-
derstand that your husbands and
children are of considerable more
value than any blooded horse.
If the wife would feed her husband
wholesome nourishing foods in proper
combinations, the mental and physical
efficiency of her supporter would be
greatly increased. The children will
be much better in their school studies
and make progress more rapidly You
can't have full mental and physical
efficiency when the intestines are
constantly distended with fermenting
and putrefying food and gases when
! The foods eaten have not cont .l:,e,l
the nourishment required by the body.
A man in this condition will certainly
not be capable Of eXerting over 40
to 60 per cent of his normal efficiency.
Then, you mothers and wives, con-
slider another question. When you
have fed your children until they get
enlarged tonsils and adenoids and
finally come down sick, possibly with
diphtheria, pneumonia, severe cold,
how much are you, then, lessening
the efficiency of the husband and
father when, with his ordinary cares,
he leaves the house in the morning
Will IllC ddNiCO Will 0OQpI
and fear when the children are sick
Don't feed your children white
flour products, when a dog dies on
them in twenty days. Don't feed
polished rice that kills chickens in
from six to eight weeks. Don't use
a load of sugar in the house and think
you are doing your family good, when
refined sugar drains all the mineral
salts out of the body.
Learn why you should not feed
starches and proteins together and
change your habits of living.
If you were raising chickens, you
would mighty soon quit feeding them
white flour or polished rice or de-
vitalized cornmeal, and you wouldn't
permit them to have any sugar be-
cause their crops would get sour, for
if you did these things you wouldn't
have chickens very long. They would
all die.