Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — DR. WILEY'S DIET GAUGES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DR. WILEY'S DIET GAUGES.

Latest and Bloat Practical Conclusions Reached by Expert. , Some of the latest and most practical conclusions which Hr. 'll. Mr Wiley, chemical expert of the Department of Agri-

culture, has reached .on tHe subject of eating for health and strength were aired by him in a statement before the House committee on expenditures for the Agricultural Department. When asked by Chairman Littlefield what he regards ed as the best food for a man to eat, Dr. Wiley replied;

“I think a man ought to Choose his own ration. Lots of people are vegetarians. I think we eat too much meat for health. For the sustenance of physical exertion if you have hard work to do there is nothing better than starch or sugar. The cereal-eating nations can endure more physical toil than the meat-eating nations. That is, not the accepted view, but jt-is true. You cannot tire out a Japanese, who eats rice. lie will draw you aroundthe town on a pound of rice and be as fresh at the close of the day as when he started. You could not do that on a pound of meat to save your life.” As to the much-advertised nerve and brain foods. Dr. Wiley thought those all nonsense, as also the idea of getting fat on drugs. On the contrary, he said, most of them have a degrading effect. For instance, a man will fatten for a time on arsenic, but >if kept up tire treatment soon causes death. Dr. Wiley is also authority for the statement that every man eats every day 1 per cent of liis weight in dry food, so that it requires 100 days for him to “eat his own head off.” This at least is the average - for the normal individual. If he eats less than this amount he will lose in weight; if he eats more lie will gain. The doctor thinks that every person should consume a total in liquids and solids of -HA pounds per day. Referring to the necessity of maintaining a high condition of physical energy, Dr. Wiley says: “A man may drink aglass of typhoid germs if he is in -vigorous health and may not get typhoid fever, because his system may throw off the poison, hut if he is broken down one of the germs will'produce typhoid. Not a man but has a pneumonia germ in his mouth. It will not affect the healthy being, but let a mbn get a cold and it will take its seat in his lungs.”

DR. WILEY.