The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 1564, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 24, 1909 Page: 3 of 4
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DIET AND
HEALTH
By DR. J. T. ALLEN
Food Specialist
Author of “Eating for a
iPurpose/’ “The JVebv
Gospel of Health,”
Etc.
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Fasting and Diet Cure.
Bating “three square meals” is a
habit. Men have lived 40, 60 days and
even longer without eating. Dr. Tan-
ner fasted 40 days, more than 20
years ago, and is living at an advanced
age, hale and hearty, an advocate of
sane fasting. But some would die in
ten days if they didn’t eat.
Apples correct biliousness and let-
tuce and strawberries are good in
anemia, but they only supply what
nature needs. Only nature cures sick-
ness.. Nature will always cure, if we
do not force her to spend so much
time (or vitality) house cleaning, that
she has none left for making repairs.
We put into the stomach a mixture
of strange things that together form
a very indigestible compound, requir-
ing three times the vitality needed to
digest what we really need for the
body’s nourishment. And so nature is
constantly kept busy cleaning house,
until one day a crisis comes and she
“catches” cold or fever, starts a big
fire and burns the accumulated rub-
bish all up. She is very likely to do
this in the spring wThen there is an
unusually large accumulation of waste,
after the winter’s heavy feeding, lack
of air and exercise, and when there
are more germs around. We eat a lit-
tle lettuce or fresh fruit and nature
takes the hint that house ..cleaning
time has come. Grandmother's idea
of a little spring medicine was not far
wrong, though sulphur is a heroic
remedy. Proper eating makes all this
unnecessary—if the thought is right.
Fever is a means of purification, al-
though the germs that help to produce-
it do harm, like the rats that, cleared
away the garbage in certain tenement
districts in great cities before public
sanitation took care of it. The blood,
if it has the necessary strength, will
destroy the germs, by the time the
waste matter is cleaned out, but to do
this, establishing immunity from at-
tack by that particular kind of fever
again (in some cases) requires the ex-
penditure of much vitality, and while
the net result of the fever may be
good, such a system of house cleaning
is not recommended, unless there is
no other that nature can command—
which there is. Whether it is wise to
prevent certain diseases when they
become necessary, by the use of anti-
toxins, is an interesting question
which we cannot discuss here.
If when such a crisis comes, there
is a fair supply of all the elements
needed to carry on the life processes,
if the tissues are in the main sound,
the vital organs, especially heart,
lungs and kidneys, the patient will
recover, even though all is not done
that might be done to remove the
obstacles that hinder nature’s pro-
cess of cure, and to supply pure
air, water, light, right mental influence
and food that will furnish what the
system needs and yet call for the
least draft on vitality, when con-
valescence begins.
We begin life with a certain stock
of vitality determined, largely, by
heredity; and when that is expended
death follows. Stimulants, like alco-
hol, can only draw on this vitality and
expend it, diverting it from the use
of one organ to another (which may
occasionally be beneficial), and there
is always the reaction, “equal and op-
posite.” Neither food nor drugs can
produce vitality. Food furnishes one
of the conditions necessary for the ex-
penditure of energy; it is necessary
for the discharge of the various ener-
gies which constitute life on the
physical plane. Now when food is not
taken for several days, the system
feeds on its own tissues. This requires
the expenditure of very little energy,
for there is not digestion and there-
fore little waste to eliminate, the sys-
tem taking exactly what it needs di-
rectly from the tissues and hence in
fasting, there is a wonderful elevation
of all the forces, physical and mental,
a great saving of vitality. Hence the
great value of fasting as a cure, when
wisely directed.
But, if the organism is extremely
weak at some vital point, or if for a
long time the food has not furnished
the necessary elements of nutrition,
so that there is not a full stock on
hand (or, to be literally correct, on
body) normal nutrition cannot be long
maintained without food. Death of
persons who try the fasting cure
without proper knowledge is frequent-
ly reported in the newspapers. Stim-
ulated by hearing of the wonderful
cures wrought by fasting, but with no
knowledge of its physiology, (or of its
psychology, which is, if possible more
important) many try it, with fatal re-
sults, although others are permanent-
ly cured of chronic ills that nothing
else seemed to benefit. Competent
guidance is necessary, and it is re-
gretable that the average physician
gives fasting no place in his means of
cure—it surely cannot be too simple,
for it requires accurate knowledge of
nutrition, of physiology, and of psy-
chology, to conduct a fast safely and
profitably.
Protracted fasting is most appropri-
ate as a cure in cases of men and
women past middle life, who are over
weight, not extremely excitable and
who have no organic weakness of the
heart, but with an evenly balanced
temperament and a strong will power.
In most cases a special monodiet is
better than a fast, especially where
competent supervision is not' con-
venient and when it is necessary to
continue the work.
Each case must be considered on
its own merits, but the following sug-
gestions will be helpful: The best
monodiet is that which furnishes all
the elements of nutrition; buttermilk
is the best in most cases, especially in
stomach and bowel troubles.
Begin with a pint, morning and eve-
ning, taking the usual midday meal,
but omitting meat, potatoes and white
bread, and eating more whole wheat
bread and toast with only a little
cheese. The second week increase
the morning and evening ration to a
quart and the third week drop the
noon meal and substitute a quart of
buttermilk. Drink very slowly, a
spoonful at a time, holding it long in
the mouth, and stop when there is a
feeling of complete fullness and satis-
faction. Good skimmed milk, promptly
bottled, converted into buttermilk,
with a spoonful of olive or peanut oil
to the quart, is best.
In disorders of the blood, grapes
are the best monodiet. Concord or
California grapes may be taken with
grape juice. The rules for buttermilk
apply. If the patient is taking only
gentle exercise, this diet may be con-
tinued for 30 days or longer, with per-
fect confidence.
In wasting diseases, perfectly fresh
whipped eggs with grape juice, and
olive or peanut oil, are good, as a rule.
A lady much emaciated from severe
dyspepsia, impressed with the argu-
ments in favor of the monodiet, has
tried taking the yolk and white of the
egg at separate meals and proved the
theory correct to her great benefit.
Beans are a suitable monodiet for a
man of vigorous constitution who
must continue physical work. In a
60 days’ test made by a laborer under
my observation, working capacity and
weight steadily increased. But a per-
son of nervous temperament doing
light work, could not live well on
beans or peas, especially if the kid-
neys were weak. A case was recently
reported from Philadelphia in which a
man lived well for several years on
pea soup only, after his case had been
declared hopeless by physicians,
which does not prove that peas are
the best monodiet.
Peanuts (uncooked) with dry -whole
•wheat biscuit for bulk, give strength,
physical and mental, for an indefinite
period. With a few apples taken in
the morning, and prunes in the eve-
ning, this makes a good varied mono-
diet, for anyone doing ordinary work.
Rice is easily digested, but our
milled rice is chiefly starch, and alone
will not long support life. With
whipped eggs and grapes and oil, sep-
arately, an emaciated person gains
fast if the powers of assimilation are
normal.
Rye bread is a good monodiet for
one doing hard work; a couple of ap-
ples in the morning wall overcome the
tendency to clog the liver. A table-
spoonful of olive or peanut oil should
be taken morning and evening.
More vitality is saved by eating one
article exclusively than one different
article at e^ch of two or three meals.
The exclusive monodiet is better, that
is, in sickness, than the varied mono-
diet. The diet should be changed as
conditions require, always gradually.
Wheat (winter wheat is best) con-
tains all food elements and, uncooked,
and chewed to a smooth, tasteless
paste, often gives better results than
anything else. The fat of the natural
food, in -which wheat is almost entire-
ly deficient, is supplied by olive or
peanut oil.
Uncooked apples, grapes, oranges,
pineapple, make a good morning meal
for an invalid or infirm person, a
whipped egg with well toasted dry
bread for dinner, and rice alone in in-
creasing quantity, as strength returns
(no milk, if the digestion be very
weak) and buttermilk only or grape
juice only in the evening, for which
may be substituted prunes (alone) as
strength increases, thoroughly washed.
This dietary calls for little vitality,
yet contains every element of nutri-
tion, and can be relied upon to sustain
indefinitely anyone not doing much
mental or physical work.
As a rule, when one is sick, the first
thing to do, and often the only thing
necessary, is to stop eating and drink
plenty of lemonade, which is a good
means of aiding elimination through
skin and -kidneys. Eat nothing till
there is a distinct, desire for food;
then begin with a little easily digested
food and increase gradually. The
bowels should be free so as to save
expenditure of vitality. The inclina-
tion to recline should be complied
with.
Overfeeding, causing accumulation
of waste in the system and resulting
congestion, physical and mental, is
the chief physical cause of disease.
Health, therefore depends, on the
physical side, upon avoiding over-
feeding, while supplying every ele-
ment of nutrition, some of which are
wanting in the accidental dietaries fol-
lowed by many.
To “eat anything,” because the im-
portance of the right mental condition
is realized, is as wrong as to “think
anything” because the food- is right.
The liver can make glycogen or liver
sugar from beef, but much easier from
toast or prunes. Albumen, essential
to life, is contained only in certain
foods. To eat the right food and
worry about it, is. no better than to
worry about something else and eat
the right food. Worry kills; so does
wrong eating.
Children have more diseases than
adults because a child has greater
central vitality to be used in eliminat-
ing the ills of heredity than an adult.
Unless the child gets too much food or
unnatural food, or not enough of the
-right food, together with proper air,
light, water, variety of exercise of the
mind through the use of the objective
faculties and of muscular exercise—
unless the child is improperly nour-
ished (and nurtured) it will be sick
•in the right way, the positive way.
Measles are good for a child that has
in the system by heredity, unwhole-
some conditions that must be elimin-
ated if it is to grow up healthy in
body and mind. Do not stop or drive
in the measles, nor any other disease;
aid nature in elimination. Provide
carefully proper nutrition and give na-
ture a chance.
Nutrition—this is life. Maintain
proper nutrition and nature will do
the rest. It is natural to be well, not
tick. Sickness is but the evidence of
health, the healthy effort of nature to
right wrong conditions, A dead man
cannot be sick.
The pain you feel is the result of
nature's effort to restore normal con-
ditions; therefore be thankful that
you are “sick,” for it is a sign that
you will soon be well—if the vitality
is not too far exhausted and if too
many obstacles are not put in nature’s
way. And there are two important
signs that may be depended upon,
positive and negative. If the patient
suddenly “gets better” before the
natural course of nature’s curative
process has run, or if there is abso-
sultely no desire to live, the end is
near. But if there is a vigorous ef-
fort on the part of nature to restore
normal conditions, there is health al-
ready, the abnormal form of health
commonly called sickness; this is al-
ways a favorable sign; and if the
crisis is developed naturally and the
positive forces prevail at that point,
the normal condition will gradually re-
turn. The natural process of nature’s
cure may be helped or hindered.
Desire, intensified, ripening into
faith and faith into will, the will to be
well, has an influence on health of
vast importance. This is being recog-
nized and applied practically, shorn of
the superstition which has "long at-
. tached to it because it was not under-
stood, in the “Immanuel Movement”
and in the practice of the scientific
physician, is a well spring of health
and happiness.
Good Health a National Asset
The good health of the country is so
absolutely a basic matter in the gen-
eral welfare of the country that the
suggestion for the establishment of
a national department of health de-
serves attention and adoption. Wheth-
er it shall be a department with its
head in the cabinet is another matter,
but a fully equipped bureau, with leg-
islation back of it, with correlation of
the national forces, with interstate
control, would appear to be requi-
site.
It did not require Mr. Kipling’s dic-
tum recently at the Middlesex hos-
pital, “every sane human being is
agreed that this long-drawn fight for
time we call life is one of the most
important things in the world,” to con-
vince us. Perhaps nothing has been
more convincing than two of the lead-
ing events recently, the congress on
tubercular troubles in Washington,
the spread of the plague in Russia.
Here were the white plague and the
black plague, side by side, in the pub-
lic mind, demanding attention, do
manding fear.—St. Paul Dispatch.
His Rates Lower Than Company’s.
An old-time traveling man was talk-
ing of experiences of former days
on the road. “Frequently,” said this
traveler, “I journeyed to Cincinnati.
The fare from this city to that place
was then about $3.25. I saved some-
thing by handing the conductor two
dollars in cash. One day there was an
excursion, and I bought a round trip
ticket for $1.25 or $1.50. I’ve forgotten
the exact amount, but that circum-
stance need not cripple this story.
“When I handed this ticket to the
conductor as he tore off the return
coupon he looked at me and in a
voice that betrayed how deeply he was
hurt, he remarked: ‘My young friend,
don't you know that I can afford to
haul you much cheaper than this com-
pany can?’”—Indianapolis News.
STRONG FLIGHTS OF ORATORY.
Examples cf Mixed Metaphors Calcs*
lated to Cause a Smile.
An amateur historian is responsible
for this: “All along the ever flowing
stream of history you can discern the
silent footprints of the crowned heads
of Europe!”
The village reporter on the death
of the village poet: “That dauntless
pen shall write no more, for its eyes
are closed forever!”
From the speech of a rising young
politician: “The fierce light of pub-
lic opinion shall dog their footsteps
until it strangles them. Then sha’l
they swallow the bitter pill and drink,
its very dregs.”
Advice and warning from a success-
ful man of business to a gathering of
young people: “Every rung in the lad-
der of success is paved with slippery
stones, on which only the clear head
and the steady hand can retain their
footing!”
The fearless suffragette was address-
ing a meeting of mere men. She had
graphically related to them the fasci-
nating story of the strenuous struggle
the ladies had made for that most
priceless of possessions, a vote—how
every obstacle had been conquered
and victory was at last in sight. "We
have now,” she shrieked, “almost
crossed the trackless desert and the
harbor lights are stretching out their
arms to greet us!”
The temperance advocate was giv-
ing a striking but a true picture of the
vast amount of evil wrought by the
demon of drink. “What is the great-
est devastating agent of our time?” he
asked. “It is the bottle, which smiles
genially before your face while at the
same time it is stabbing you in the
back!”
A Busy Holiday.
“Naw, I don’t think Timmy’ll be
staying long on this new job he’s took
up wid,” said Mrs. Herlihy. "’Tis too
harrd fer him. Sure he gets no rist
at all from Monda’ mornin’ till Sath-
urda’ night, and ’tis not what the
man’s used to.”
“He has his Sundays to rist in,” haz-
arded the caller, boldly.
“An’ what o’ that?” said Mrs. Her-
lihy. “On Sunda’s he has to go to
church, an’ take the children to their
grandmamma’s, an’ visit wid his
coosins an’ all—'tis no rist at all.”
“’Twas wan day out of ivery fortnit
he had wid the ould job, wa’nt it?”
queried the caller.
“It was,” said Mrs. Herlihy, "an’
’twas a grand vacation he had. I’d
save ivery bit o’ the washin’, an’ he’d
wring it out fine, an’ hang it on the
line for me; thin he’d saw an* shplit
wood enough to last till the nixt vaca-
tion day, an’ he’d bate ivery mat in the
house an’ shine up the faucets an’ the
b’iler, an’ wash the windys, an’ there’d
always be some little exthra help,
drivin’ nails or the like, he cud give
me.
“An’ whin he'd go to bed at night
he’d niver fail to say to me: 'Well,
Celia, my vacation day is over, but I
feel like it’s made me ready to go back
to wurrk to-morrer,’ he’d say.”-—
Youth’s Companion.
The Servant Problem Again.
“Did you hear that Mrs. Skiddso
caught her husband flirting with that
pretty cook she engaged a month
ago?”
“Is it possible?”
“It is, indeed. She was terribly up-
set by it.”
“I should imagine she would be. Did
she send the cook away?”
“Why, no. She has sent her husband
away.”—Judge.
A Tabloid Fable.
A Man once collided with an Opper->
lunity.
“Why don’t you look where you are
going?” growled the Man.
“Don’t you recognize me?” asked the
Opportunity, pleasantly.
“No, and I don’t care to. You have
trodden on my corns,” replied the Man,
as he limped away.
Moral: Don’t believe the people who
say they have never had a chance.
NOT OP MUCH CONSEQUENCE
-• #-——-—---
Little Man, Away in the Corner, Was
Only Owner of Mine.
“Hello, Harry! How are you? You
seem to have a pretty nice office here.
How are you making out?”
“I’m at the top of the ladder. I am
the vice-president of this mining con-
cern.”
“Is that so? You do a large business,
I guess?”
“Immense. The responsibility
weighs on me quite heavily, but I’ve
got to shoulder it. No Way of getting
around that, you know.”
“The man over there at that elegant
desk is one of the officers of the com-
pany, I suppose?”
“Yes. He’s the secretary. And those
other two men at those fine desks are
his assistants. He has a wonderful
amount of work to do. But remember,
he is a first-class man. We pay him a
big salary.”
“The man over there behind that
railing is another official, is he not?”
“Yes. _That’s the treasurer. He’s'
another great man. We pay him big
money; but we require a large bond.
Got to do it. We handle too much
money to run any risks.”
“And who is that little wizened
face old man over there in the corner
at that old desk?”
“That's old Bangs. He—ahem—
owns the mine, you know.”—Bohe-
mian. ,
Suffragettes Honor Leaders.
The Woman Suffrage association of
New Jersey, recently celebrated the
fiftieth anniversary of Lucy Stone let-
ting her household goods, including
her baby’s cradle, be sold for taxes
in Orange, as a protest against taxa-
tion without representation. The suf-
fragists say that this was the first
instance in the world of a woman re-
fusing to pay taxes for this reason.
Since then there have been many sim-
ilar instances. The last and most no-
table perhaps was the case of Lady
Steel, who let her goods be sold at
auction in Edinburgh. Scotland.
French Wealth Well Divided.
Edmond Thery, in his “Economic
Progress of France,” declares that the
total wealth of the nation is divided
among its inhabitants more equally
than is the case in any other nation.
The reports of the savings institutions
show that there are nearly 2,000,000
persons in the republic having depos-
its of $2,000 each, and 4,000,000 having
$1,000 each. Government postal banks
were established by France in 1881,
and have encouraged the habit of
thrift.
Good Talk.
Senator Beveridge, during a recent
visit to Portland, talked about ora-
tory.
“The campaign,” he said, “has giv-
en us oratory more remarkable for
quantity than quality. True oratory
is that which brings results, is that
which converts an audience of ene-
mies to an audience' of supporters.
Such oratory is rare.
“I have a friend whose wife, a ‘suf-
fragette,’ is a great orator. Her
speeches from the platform are won-
derful. and her husband tla.8 other day
gave me an illustration of the efficien-
cy of her private speeches.
“ ‘An agent called on my wife this
afternoon,’ he said, ‘and tried to sell
her a new wrinkle eradicator.’
“ ‘And how did the man make out?’
said I.
“ ‘He left in a half hour,’ was the
answer, ‘with a gross of bottles of
wrinkle eradicator of my wife’s own
manufacture that he had purchased
from her.’ ”
An Alibi.
The milkman stood before her ner-
vously twirling his hat in his hands.
“So,” she said, sternly, “you have
come at last?”
“Yes, madam. You sent for me, I
believe,” he replied.
“1 wished to tell you that I found
a minnow in the milk yesterday morn-
ing.”
“I am sorry, madam; but if the cows
will drink from the brook instead of
from the trough, I cannot help it.”—■
Harper’s Weekly.
Possession may be nine points of
the law, but the/tenth point is ali-
mony.
Demand for Professional Mourner.
The professional mourner who can
be hired in many European cities to
follow in the funeral procession and
look grief-stricken is usually secured
through burial societies. These furn-
ish men and women, and sometimes
both, dressed in keeping with the de-
sire of the family of the late lamented.
They also weep to order. At homes
where self control is deemed a virtue
there is no loud demonstration or sor-
row, but where the real mourners are
emotional and give way to weeping
the^- are usually outdone by the pro-
fessionals. An undertaker in Dela-
ware furnished mourners several times
recently, and the experiment was so
successful, the stricken families were
so well pleased with the manner in
which the mourning parties had been
augmented, that the funeral director
has determined to enter the profes-
sional mourner’s business with hopes
for success.
On th Trail.
Tramp—Lady, I’m near perishing
from exposure.
Lady—Are you a congressman or 9
senator?—Town Topics.
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