Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — Nerve Food. [ARTICLE]

Nerve Food.

In what does nerve food consist? In what do we find it? Is it meat? no; white bread? no; potatoes? no. If it is not found in these staples, in what is it to be found ? 1 answer, in the exterior of the white kernel, in the skin of the potato, and in milk, partially also in eggs and fish I answer, the chief food staples, in the present dietetic system, are almost entirely deficient in brain and nerve building material. In view of these facts, Is it a result to be wondered at that the starving nervous tissue in the overworked masses attempts to satisfy an intolerable sense of craving, of physical hunger, by the use of stimulating poisons, that temporarily supply the place of brain and nerve food? I answer, the cause of intemperance is based upon a fundamental error in the present dietetic system. Let it always be borne in mind that atimulat. ing brain poisons—alcohol, opium and tobacco—temporarily supply the place of brain and nerve food. What is the remedy for in'emperanco? I answer nerve food--building material to supply the waste of the nervous tissue in the masses I answer, farther, a reform in the presen popular system of dietetics, by reducing the proportion of fat and muscle-forming elements, and increasing the nerve and brain-building material In a proper ratio. Let the aupply in each case meet the demand, and no man.—Herald, of Health,