Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1911 — Boston Man “Roasts” Baked Beans [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Boston Man “Roasts” Baked Beans

BOSTON. —The "baked bean that has made Boston famous, the succulent oyster and beef extract, were branded as being injurious or of no food value by Dr. Fnphlin White, lecturing at the Harvard medical school on “Digestion.” He claimed that people could live more successfully on half the quantity of food taken. Prof. John H. Woods of Cambridge also alined a blow at the high cost of living by claiming that a *l2 cent meal suffices for a day’s work. “It is a hard thing to say in Boston,” "Dr, White allowed, "but beans are notoriously hard to digest. They may be an excellent diet for one leading an active outdoor life. While oysters eaten raw are digestible, they are practically of no food value, for they are mostly water. "I always feel that It is pathetic to see people buying beef extracts for Invalid foods, knowing as I do, that they coat so mvffih and contain so little of any value. “Twenty-five cents’ worth of beef ifuice will yield only Six parts Of food value to the body, while 25 cents’ worth of eggs will yield 700 parts, and 25 cents’ worth of milk 1,600 parts of real food value to the human system.

“It takes from 15 to 30 glasses of beef juice to equal the food value to the body of one glasip of good milk. “Meat that is cooked rare is digested by the stomach in two hours, that which is half roasted takes three hours, and that which is wholly roasted requires four hours to digest. “Dyspepsia is called the American disease. Surely it is not due to the fact that we have not good food, but is rather due to our bad habits.” A 12 cent breakfast is all the nourishment Prof. Woods of 23 Inman street, Cambridge, who is 66 years old, requires to do a day’s work consisting of 12 hours reading and study and a 10 or 15 mile walk. Prof. Woods - sits down to his daily meal at 5:30 a. m. He is served with a cereal, a soup, four slices of wheat bread and four glasses of milk, one of which is hot.