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rjr r eat?
iif Persistently propounded in '
f arts of the United States,
this question is answered in so many and
contradictory ways that the average person
and little wonder is disheartened.
' Impure food agitation, revelations con
cerning packing-house methods and experi
ments for the purpose of testing ihe com
parative efficiency of meat versus vegetable ,
diet these things have erected large inter
rogation' points in the minds of most of us
regarding the things we take into our stom
achs for nourishment.
Especial impetus has been given to the
discussion by an expression by the president
of the United States, in. which he declared
that health is the greatest national asset,
and that the pursuit of it should be made a
matter of patriotism.
- Two of the greatest' leaders of food
thought Dr. H- W. Wiley, of the United v
States Agricultural Department, and Pro
fessor Irving Fisher, of Yale, have been
conducting investigations, 'the result of
Svhich must be of great moment. '
And yet, if one reduces these conclu
sions to first analysis, there remains little
more than the. homely advice, to let the ap
petite be a guide in the matter of eating, to
eat full and plenty of wholesome food,
without regard to whether it is meat or veg
etable. One "don't," startling in its inno- :
vatton, the leaders seem to agree on, and it
is: 'Don't dtet." . . t. , .
' Professor Fisher has offered as a motto
for proper eating, "Choose and chew," and
some one has suggested that this may be
carried a step further,. and made to read:
"Choose, chew and eschew "L -
NATIONAL in scope has the ideal food
discussion .become . Bince President
Roosevelt, in a tcrong letter to Pro
fessor Fisher, , declared that "the pres
ervation of national vigor should be a matter of
patriotism." - v
This letter was inspired by a reference to
the committee of ote hundred, of which Pro
fessor Fisher is president, whose work is to pre
vent disease a:.cf raise the standard of physical
well-being throughout the United States. A
6tudy of the food, subject is the predominant
part of the work. - ' ' '
In. his letter to rrotessor .iisher, the presi
.dent saidr"',.7"7'':i ' : ,
''Onr national health; is physicaHyj pur
greatest national asset. To ; prevent any possi- r
hup detenoratiOB of the American stock should
bo a national ambition. . SyKJSi '
"We cannot too strongly insist on the .ne
cessity of proper ideals for the family, for sim
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This committee is composed of leading phy
sicians and hygienists, officers ' of associations
and institutions for human betterment,- experts
on. various phases- of health work, educators,
clergymen and lawyers; and' such' unclassified
members as Luther Burbank, Andrew Carnegie,
Thomas A. Edison and President John Mitchell,
of the United .Miije .Workers , of Aaerica.
Hoping to accomplish its aims through a
campaign of education,1. the committee has up
ward of -200,000 -members -working in clubs
throughout the nation. ; ' ;
"Our plan," -said 'Professor Fisher, "is
through ; subcommittees to' guide ' enthusiasm
into a channel. where it will, and where it can.
make itself felt on Congress to compel it8 mem
bers to see. the importance of establishing a fed-
eriljbureau, of ; health ahd;to give to nhe proper
department ample authority not only money-
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to .carry, on the w,ork which we hope to promote.
Ins, a series of experiments ! in dietetics o
i j-u series oi experumjms m uieicura vu
i ortjnirieT' persons Professor Fisher has con
'y treated high and low proteid dietaries.
. '.The ''results; showed ' 'that a diet of low pro-
t'teid, character resulted in a greater degree of
endurance; but'this, he declares, must not be
construed as a victory for vegetarianism over
flesh eating: .
Literally, tho victory , is to low producers of
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fifteen flesh eaters could hold the
arms out over a quarter of an
hour, while twenty-two of the
thirty-two . abstainers surpassed
that limit. '
Nay, fifteen of them exceeded
,rp half an hour, nine of them an
hour, four, of them two hours and
I j' one' of them three hours, while not ,
TU.U one meat eater lasted a half hour!,
V- In Jcnee-bending; too, the abstainers from.
' meat came out ahead.
V v Professor Fisher conoludes -that the dif
,f erence in endurance is due to diet. Yet he re-
fused to commit himself to a condemnation nt
flesh foods; ho contented himself with 'saying j
that "the ordinary consumption of those foods'
is excessive." ,
And again : "The proper scientific attitude j
is to study the question of meat eating in pre-1
ciseiy uie same manner as one would study the
question ot bread eating.
He found that to suddenly cease meat eat
ing often makes people ill, but that thorough
mastication of the reduced quantity of meal
usuaUy obviates illness Some persons, 1 how
ever, he found, may have an. actual physiologi
cal need which no foods other than meat can
satisfy. , 1
That plenty of vegetables make one proof'
. against cancer, and ' that red meat causes it, is
the assertion made by Dr. Bobert Bell, one of
' the prominent physicians of London. j
Yet, in contrast .to. this, are some curious,
statistics recently adduced in Baden, Germany, j
During enrolment of recruits for the German '
army, out of 604 young men liable for servioe.!
only twenty met the physical requirements, and j
it was stated that, the clearness of meat proba-j
bly accounted for the degeneration that, pota,
toes and skimmed milk would not make men'
.physically fit. ... ' I
That vegetarianism, has increased in the'
United States one needs no better testimony,
than the growing number of "straight-edge" res
taurants where only food "which never had
squeal in it" L served.' ; ' it
At such places popular dishes are:'' Fruit'
muffins, made of whole wheat flour in' combina-'
tion with dates; fig crisps, which are made' of f
whole wheat flour, figs,' filberts and .honey,'. and
walnut croquettes, pecan cake and'fig .hazeL'; v 1
Does it, after all, make so. much difference
what or how we eat? This is what Dr.Haryeyi
W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Department1 off
Agriculture, has been seeking to learn- for. the
government. s. '
''Old age should be the ' only, weapon Jefk to
the reaper Death," was. the- nation-startling
statement made, by , Dr. Wiley, a short time; ago. ;
"It's rank, disgrace for any man to die1 under
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This man has for a number of .years, been
conducting for, the , government important in
vestigations regarding i ooi. and-- nourishment.
ideal foodia c peculiar .rameVa - rt y ,
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to reach the centenary, mark t - y ' , - , ' -
"Fat plenty .of .'good, wholesome food,", is '
the- advice of-Dr. Wiley. ; : 'C-M-r '
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W hear this. .Here,;at.kast, is
eyed .the majority of persons must ,
one man of -
unquesti6neduthori-)Ut:there,arelotherf--!''
who declares that' we need not stfirve our stom-'
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'deed, :ref uses- prescribe to .others what they
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