True food values and their low costs

.jjgj expense has to be borne by the purchaser of the! * foods from the retail dealer. Pure foods are, as a general thing, largely devoid of flavor — the white of an egg, for instance or any other clear protein, or any fat, or any carbohydrate bohydrate except sugars. Experience is said to be a good monitor. "W need abundant food, enough to cover our living expenses and our work, and no more. Our food should be good, that is, it should be fresh, well cooked, appetizing, and digestible. Digestion may be afEected by various temporary mental causes, vis: If we are cross, or overtired, or in a hurry, have unpleasant thoughts, or there is discussion of disagreeable matters at the table, it will be impaired. Whatever goes wrong with the food between the dealer's shop and the stomach is our own fault. As a rule we shall do best to stick to the oldtime foods, on which our race has thrived since the time of Adam, with cautious excursions into the new and unproved methods of diet. For the normal individual it is enough to eat at leisure what he likes best in the way of good foods. As a rule, the appetite is a safer guide to follow than CHAPTER IX Shall We Eat Meat? These are the beasts which ye shall eat: The ox, the sheep, and the goat; the hart and the roebuck, and the fallow deer and the wild goat, and the pygarg and the wild ox, and the chamois. — Deuteronomy 14:4-7. With the amount of theoretical and practical literature on food, it is not a difficult matter for persons interested in the subject to discover for themselves by experiments the diet that is best suited to their needs. The better the quality of food, the better the effects produced. Unfortimately, in our country at the present time, the best foods are comparatively expensive, such as choice meats, game, poultry, fish, fruit, and vegetables. It will be noticed that more talent and intellectual strength are generally fotmd among people who use meat liberally than among those who live principally on farinaceous food. Whatever merits vegetarians may claim for their diet, they cannot produce a single talented or handsome vegetarian, born of vegetarian parents in England, America, or Germany. It is an established fact that children educated in charitable institutions, where they are chiefly fed on cereals, rarely develop into talented or handsome men and women. In fact, a preponderance of cereal food deteriorates body and mind. There is no evidence to prove that a vegetarian diet is better for our climate than the usual mixed diet. On the contrary, the many deaths among vegetarian teachers of late proves that vegetarianism, as practiced at present, is a dangerous dietic experiment. Because some young people are in apparent health on a vegetarian diet cannot be considered adequate proof of the theory, for the digestive organs of the young are usually strong. When children are weak, vegetarian foods have proved to be much more harmful than the usual mixed diet. We are told that people of middle age and past should eat sparingly, and they are particularly cautioned against the use of meat, especially red meat {any kind of beef), on account of its causing an excess of uric acid, and increasing the tendency to hardening of the arteries (arteriosclerosis). Dairy food, milk, meat broth, and milk puddings are recommended as their staple diet. The true value of meat has not been sufficiently recognized by the public, for the reason that it t ■I •! i. J 'Wh.