Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 44, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 30 December 1908 — Page 3

DIET AND HEALTH

By DR. J. T. ALLEN

Food Speci.lUt

Author of "Ealing for a “Purport," "The fieto Gojptl of Health." Etc.

(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles,) - MILK FOR BABES-BUT-TERM/LK FOR ADULTS All authorities on diet say that milk is a perfect food. This is true in a sense; and in another it is alto--gether untrue and misleading. The natural food of the ififant is mother’s milk. But the appalling mortality of infants is due chiefly to the use of cow’s milk, carrying the seeds of disease from the cow, the air and water, and planting them in a soil made favorable by improper feeding, lack of fresh air, bathing and exercise. Not even cereal starch kills more infants between the ages of one ) and six than does milk in the first two years. Cow’s milk differs materially from the infant’s natural food, containing twice as much proteid and only about half as much sugar, but the danger lies more in the contamination of the milk sold in the cities. Fortunately good work is being done in many places to remedy this evil. Milk is called the perfect food because it contains all the elements necessary for the growth of the infant, and in the proper proportion. But the physical constitution and development of the infant differ much from those of the adult, and the food should differ accordingly. ’ The growth of the infant in the first six years is rapid, and a large proportion of lime is necessary to build the bony framework. Milk is in this respect an appropriate food for the infant and inappropriate for the adult. The lime of milk being little needed for maintaining the bony framework of the adult, is largely deposited in the arteries, contributing to the distinctive disease of old age—hardening of the arteries. The prime cause of hardening of the arteries, Which is also a cause of "heart failure” and of certain forms of insanity, is auto-intoxication, or selfpoisoning, resulting from the absorption of waste matter from the lower part of the alimentary canal, of which I shall have more to say in dealing with “Bread,” in a subsequent article. Deficiency of iron in the blood of the adult is serious; the percentage of iron in cow’s milk is small, corresponding to the nervous inactivity of the infant. In this particular milk is a very unsatisfactory adult diet, though it sustains life indefinitely. But the unsuitability of milk to the adult is more evident on comparing the infant with the adult anatomy and physiology: In the infant, for instance, the upper part of the alimentary canal is almost a straight tube, allowing the milk to pass quickly to the intestine, which is adapted to its digestion. The adult stomach is a deeply curved pouch, which in certain abnormal conditions retains the food for several hours longer than the proper time for digestion. The fermentation of milk alone is not always serious, but-the fermentation of meat, cereals and fruits in the stomach, through the agency of. milk, leads to serious results. The proportion of iron in the blood is very small, but very important. Whp it is found to be deficient, it is very difficult to supply it. Probably its best source is the brown part of wheat which is excluded from our ’“fine patent white flours, of which we shall speak later. Grapes, the brown .part of wheat, cabbage (Yaw) and lettuce readily supply iron. It has been found that persons living exclusively on milk lack “sand,” a quality which the infant never needs to display, since it is absolutely dependent. In flesh-eating animals the stomach and liver are much larger in proportion than in the vegetable-eaters. An apparent exception is found in the ruminating animals, like the cow, which gathers a large quantity of food and stores it in the first of a series of stomachs for future chewing. The development of the food tube indicates the food adapted to the animal. Although the infant digestive organs are better adapted to milk than the adflt’s, they are not perfectly adapted to cow’s milk. To feed a dog or a child of two years on "what we eat ourselves” indicates a sympathetic but thoughtless disposition. Sterilized or boiled milk is open (o the same objection as roasted peanuts. Its vitality, its real life-giving qualities are largely destroyed. It is most unfortunate that our people are ignorant of the value of goat’s . milk, especially for infant feeding. The goat is the healthiest of all ani- < male and the slowest to degenerate When domesticated. Rarely, it ever, is the goat known to contract tuberculosis or any other disease. The milk is superior in every way to cow’s, and the poorest can own a “poor man’s cow,” which can be fed on the potato peelings, cabbage leaves or anything else that is clean. Hardly any other food is compat- • ible with milk,” except uncooked, whipped eggs, rice or toasted bread. Flesh meat, being a stomach food, is particularly Inharmonious with milk.

The Jewish instructions on diet prohibit eating meat and milk together, though this may be for an ethical reason. The writer has recently made several days’ tests of an exclusive milk diet on himself and others, carefully recording results. A change frQm the ordinary mixed diet to any monodiet is beneficial, and milk is not an exception. But the benefits derived from the milk diet which have recently been much advertised should be credited to the monodlet, avoiding the, injurious effects of mixing several incompatible foods at the same meal. Equally satisfactory results can be shown from many other monodiets—even the peanut, which is the most concentrated of all foods, containing an excess Os albumen. Great gains have been recorded from exclusive diets of beans, oatmeal, wheat, etc., as well as milk, pursued for 60 days or more. • • • • Prof. Metchnikoff, head of the Pasteur institute, who has made most praiseworthy investigations into the causes of our early decay, has concluded that the failure of the average man to live his natural term of life, 100 years, is due to the development of pathogenic germs in the lower part of the food tube from improperly digested, superfluous food, and recommends the use of buttermilk as an antidote. The chief causes of the offending conditions in the colon, the large Intestine, leading to a constant poisoning of the stream of life, are: Too much food, eaten hurriedly; too much starch anff not enough fruit, and bad combinations of foods, good in themselyes. Buttermilk is not a natural corrective of these abnormal conditions, although it no doubt serves as an antidote, nor is the "internal bath,” good in a way, the true remedy; the cause should be removed. It has been said that "wine is the milk of age,” and of unfermented wine this is true. The grape contains much sugar, acid and iron, which are deficient in milk. The most noted case of prolonged life in history, that of Cornaro, the Venetian nobleman in the sixteenth century, was due to & uniform diet, consisting chiefly of unfermented wine with an egg daily. The egg supplied the fat, sulphur and albumen deficient in the “light wine,” or grape juice. Broken down at 40 by indulgence in eating and drinking, Cornaro lived to be more than 100 by simple living. You can make the best buttermilk any day in your own kitchen. And there is nothing better for digestive disorders, and especially for intestinal troubles, or as a substitute in infant feeding, in certain cases. You can get at the drug store tablets containing the lactic acid bacterium culture that will convert sweet milk into full cream buttermilk by simply dropping a tablet into a quart bottle of milk and maintaining the proper temperature, according to the instructions. Not only because this full cream buttermilk contains the fat in emulsified form is it better than the buttermilk you buy of the buttermilk man, but because the lactic acid bacterium prevents the development of injurious bacteria in the milk. This is important in the case of infants. Cholera infantum, some forms of diarrhoea and perhaps typhoid can be avoided in this way. Here is the most important practical application of the germ, theory yet made, a boon for infant humanity, a recovery in some degree of the loss due to departing from nature in infant feeding as a result of departing from nature in other ways. It has .long been known that buttermilk is a valuable food medicine — even when soured by lightning. We can not always command the thunder, but science has discovered how to make buttermilk without a churn and without lightning, and without separating the butter. Butterless buttermilk is good, full-cream buttermilk is . better in most cases. L Cow’s milk is digested by the infant with difficulty, often resulting in complete breakdown of the digestive and nervous system; but adult digestive system -is not so well adapted to the digestion of milk and hence flatulence and..absolute revulsion often result from its continued use. But buttermilk causes difficulties, because it hf in a sensPsargely predigested, the . coarser curds of the casein in cow’s milk being finely broken lip. This removes the greatest objection to cow’s milk as a diet for infants and as an ideal monodiet for adults in severe stomach and bowel troubles. A certain amount of fat is necessary to the best conditions for normal nutrition, and fat is about 2% times more valuable as a heat and energy producer than other forms of carbon; and of the fats, butter is the most easily assimilated, except peanut and olive oil. But emulsified as the fat is in milk, it is much more easily assimilated than as butter. For this reason, and for others, the new way of making buttermilk gives a much more nutritious product and more digestible, especially for the infant Cow’s milk cannot be made identical with the infant’s natural food, but it can be approximated to it The chief difficulty to be. overcome is to adapt the large curds that tend to remain in the stomach longer than they should, as the development of the calf’s stomach requires that its food shall have a much heavier curd than that required by the infant in which intestinal digestion is more Important. The use of buttermilk tablets obviates this difficulty, besides oyercoming other objections to the use of cow’s milk. But the objection naturally ’ arises that soured milk 4s not natural. The reply is that cow’s milk is not natural. Certainly tests of buttermilk have proved it very satisfactory.

FOND OF ATHLETICS PRESIDENT HAB SET GOOD EXAMPLE FOR CABINET MEN. His Fondness for Healthy and Manly Sports Has Been Contagious with Advisers—Wilson Not a Sport. Washington.—Not the least good that Theodore Roosevelt; as president of the United States, has done his countrymen has been to quicken by precept and example their love and appreciation of healthy, athletic and manly sports. Asa hunter, a horseman! a pedestrian, a tennis player, a boxer, an exponent of jiu jitsu—in short, a follower of every wholesome form of exercise and manner of sport —the president has set an example that has been contagious and that will bear good fruit for many a day to come. The eight serious and one jocund gentlemen who stand at all times ready, ff not anxious, to lend their counsel to the president regarding the piloting of the ship of state are not unlike him in respect to their fondness for athletic recreation. Secretary Straus, who has had considerable experience in the service of his country both at home and abroad, and who is now at the head of the many-sided department of commerce and labor, is an ardent fisherman and an enthusiastic pedestrian. He found ample opportunity to gratify both his fishing and walking propensities during the past summer. The entire month of August was spent in the Maine woods, in company with William Loeb, Jr., secretary to the president. There, in a little cabin of logs, which Secretary Straus asserts cost him the munificent sum of $450, far from civilization and close to the heart of nature, where the deer came curiously up to investigate the intruders and the brook trout rose greedily to the fly, a happy party enjoyed to the full the unconventional delights of a genuine outing. The camp can be reached only after a considerable tramp through the woods, at that time in the full glory of their richest foliage, so that on arrival at the unostentatious but hospitable portals the newcomers were in fit mood to appreciate the dainties spread before them, dainties typical of the region and the environment. The camp possesses every convenience that the "simple life” requires, and afforded ample accommodation not only for Secretary Straus, Mrs.

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Straus and their young son, but also for Secretary Loeb and several other guests. The most striking feature is the central hall, with its stone chimney, where on a wide open hearth spruce, pine and maple logs blazed cheerily and gave out needed warmth, especially in the mornings and evenings,, while in Washington people were seeking the parks and housetops to get refuge from the humid heat. “I feel that the head of this department ought to know something about fishing,” said Secretary Straus, almost naively, “as the bureau of fisheries is under his jurisdiction, and in order to learn about fishes you must love the sport of taking them.” One would have to go far to find a more ardent sportsman and outdoor* athlete than the postmaster general of the United States, George von Lengerke Meyer of Hamilton, Mass. With him athletic exercise is little short of a religion, and with his 50 years sitting lightly on him he can outride and outwork most, younger men. What he goes through during his vacation would kill any man whose nerves were not in perfect trim, whose muscles were not like whip cords and whose digestion was not capable of assimilating the heartiest viands. But the postmaster general does not try to crowd Into a brief vacation all the exercise and open-air recreation of an entire year. Every day he jumps on his horse at seven o’clock in the morning and takes a ride at a rattling pace over country roads and ’cross country in the bracing morning air. He is an accomplished and daring horseman. James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, is no sport. When he wants recreation he exchanges one kind of work. fqr another, and even when at home in the bosom of his family-he is not wont to Indulge in cards or checkers or cheps or any other of the games commonly resorted to tor, recreation and amusement. Victor Howard Metcalf, the recent secretary of the navy, is as fond of sport as when at Yale he Jed his boat crew to victory, but he now finds recreation in other ways. Fishing, hunting and mountain climbing formed his cbief.asaußements during his vacation last summer.

FAR LARGER THAN NIAGARA. Iguazu Falls Aro Easily the Greatest in the World. Larger than Niagara is the cataract of the Iguazu Tails, almost at the intersection of the three frontiers of Paraguay, Brazil and the Argentine republic. The river takes its name from a Spanish word meaning “great waters.” About 12 miles from its mouth the bed drops suddenly down a rocky perpendicular cliff some 213 feet high, hence there is a waterfall of that great height. At this spot a delightful little island, beautiful with vegetation, divides the river into two arms, so that the total width Js about two miles and a half. The Brazilian arm of the river forms a tremendous horseshoe here and plunges into a great chasm with a deafening roar, while the Argentine side spreads out in a sort of amphitheater form and finishes with one grand leap a little over 229 feet. Below the island the two arms unite and flow on into the Parana river. From the Brazilian bank the spectator, at a height of 280 feet, gazes out over two and a half miles of some of the wildest and most fantastic water scenery he can ever hope to see. Waters stream, seethe, leap, bound, froth and foam, “throwing the sweat of agony high in the air, and writhing, twisting, screaming and moaning, bear off to the Parana.” Under the blue vault of the sky this sea of foam, of pearls, of iridescent dust bathes the great background in a shower of beauty that all the more adds to the riot of tropical hues already there. When a high wind is blowing the roar of the cataract can be heard nearly 20 miles away. A rough estimate of the horsepower represented by the falls places it at 14,000,000. Few sightseers ever catch a glimpse of the great Iguazu falls because it takes six days so make the picturesque journey of about 1,250 miles from Buenos Aires, amid the fair fertile plains of Santa Fe and the savage luxuriance of the virgin forest, passing through the territory of the missions and the ruins of Jesuit churches and convents. London Landmark Vanishing. The picturesque red-sailed London barge, formerly so plentiful on the river reaches, is slowly vanishing. The coasting trade in and out of the Thames has been so bad lately that barges have had to look elsewhere for a living. "The London barge is the most economic of all coasting vessels,” says the Express. “Her rig is so simple that two men and a boy can work a barge carrying 200 tons dead weight. Her shallow draft and ponderous leeboards enable her to navigate channels across which a man could wade, and to answer her helm like, a racing yacht.’-’

World’s Sugar Production. It is estimated that the total production of sugar throughout the world is about 2,000,000 tons per annum. Os this quantity nine-tenths are afforded by the sugar cane, 25,000,000 tons of which are required to produce the above quantity of cane sugar. The average of saccharine matter in the ripe West Indian sugar cane is from 18 to 21 per cent., of which only 8 per cent, is available to commerce. The total value of the sugar in the cane, if it could be extracted, would -be about $230,000,000, but one-half is lost iu the process of manufacture. Shock Restored Speech. As the result of a shock sustained through falling into a copper of boiling water, a boy named George Herbert Foster, age 11, living at Spalding, England, who was practically dumb, has partly regained his power of speech. Will Exhibit Silk Plant. A complete silk plant from the worms on the trees to the looms, will be a feature of Japan’s exhibit at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle. THE MARKETS. New York, Dec. 28.. LIVE STOCK-Steers 4 20 ffl 7 60 Hogs 6 35 @7 30 Sheep 3 25 @ 6 16 FLOUR—Winter Straights.. 4 60 @4 75 WHEAT-Deeember 1 10%@ 1 10% May : 1 11%@ 1 11% CORN-December 72(4® 72% RYE-No. 2 Western.. 81%© 82 BUTTER-Creamery 18 © 32% EGGS 30 @ 42 CHEESE 10(4® 15% CHICAGO. CATTLE-Fancy Steers $6 50 © 7 75 Medium to Good Steers.. 525 ®6 50 Cows, Plain to Fancy 3 50 © 5 25 Native Yearlings 5 25 © 7 75 Calves 3 00 @9 00 HOGS—Heavy Packers 5 50 @ £ 85 Heavy Butchers 6 70 @6OO Pigs : 3 90 @ 4 00 BUOTER—Creamery 22 © 32 Dairy ". 20 © 25 LIVE POULTRY 10 @ 16 EGGS 25%@ 28% POTATOES (per bu.) 65 $ 7* FLOUR—Spring Wheat, Sp’l 6 20 6 30 WHEAT-May 1 06%® *o7* July 98%© 98% Corn, May 61 @ 61% Oats, May 52 © 62% Rye, May 73 ©•■ 76 MILWAUKEE. GRAlN—Wheat. No. 1 Nor’n |1 09 ffl 1 10% May 1 06(4® 1 07 Corn. May ■ 60%@ 60% Oats, Standard 51 @ 51% Rye 74%® 75 <s KANSAS CITY. GRAlN—Wheat, December.. 3 98 © 98% May it, 101 ©I 02 , Corn, December . 56 @ ,56% Oats, No. 2 White .. .....(=r @ 51 , ST. LOUIS. CATTLE—Beef Steers ....... 1375 © 7 75 Texas Steers 360 @ 650 HOGS—Packers 525 @590 Butchers 5 50 @6 10 SHEEP—Natives’ 300 @425 OMAHA. CATTLE-Natlve Bteers .... 34 00 © 7 15 Stockers and Feeders...'.. 275 @ 525 (Jaws and Heifers 250 @440 HOGS-Heavy 5 66 @5 85 SHEEP-Wethers 4 25 @ 4 75

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Magistrate (to witness)—And where were you when this assault occurred? Witness—Just across the street, your honor. Magistrate—Then why didn’t you go to the plaintiff’s assistance when you saw him attacked? Witness—Faix, I wasn't sure then that he wouldn’t be the defendant, your honor. The Malden’s Prayer. Most children are good listeners as well as good observers, and, more than that, they are quick to use the knowledge acquired through keenness in these directions. A case in point is that of little Janet, who had evidently spent part of her day in the kitchen and had overheard remarks made by the cook. * Like all good girls, little Janet said her prayers regularly just before being tucked in tor the night. Gn this particular night she said: "God bless me, bless father and mother and everybody, make me a good girl, keep me pure—pure as Loyal baking powder. Amen.” Historical Relic. Tan visitors in the historical museum gazed curiously at a small feather pillow which nestled in a glass case. "I don’t see anything unusual about that pillow,” remarked one of the visitors, turning to the guide. "It’s a very valuable pillow,” re plied the guide. “That is Washington’s original headquarters.”—Llppincott’s. PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DATS. PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure any cate of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days or money refunded. 60c. Anew cook may bring the best of references—but you can’t eat them. Lewis’ Single Binder straight sc. Yon pay 10c for cigars not so good. Your dealer or Lewis’ Factory, Peoria, 111. For what the mind wishes, that it also believes.—Heliodorus.

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