Susannah Usher
Published: 2015-08-05
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Excerpt from Some Points to Be Considered in the Planning of a Rational Diet The rise in the cost of living has made the cost of food of vital concern to most of us, and the numerous dietetic cults have set us thinking along the line of diet in relation to health. We want to be efficient human beings with strength and endurance for the work before us; but we do not know what kind or how much food is necessary, and our would-be advisers hold such different views that it is difficult to make a choice. Horace Fletcher tells us that our problem will be solved if we chew our food thoroughly; and if we persist in this prolonged mastication, our appetites will, eventually, be a sure guide to the kind and amount of sustenance necessary. He found, under this regime, that his diet was much reduced in amount and tended towards vegetarianism, which resulted in a great gain in physical well-being. Professor Chittenden, of Yale, after scientific experiments on a large scale, thinks that we ordinarily eat too much, and especially too much protein (the substance represented by lean of meat, white of eggs, casein of milk and gluten of wheat). He believes that we overload the system with protein, and, in consequence, overwork the liver and kidneys in order to eliminate the surplus. Professor Atwater, of the United States Department of Agriculture Experiment Stations, has studied the dietaries of people in many parts of the country, and, as a result, advocates a larger amount of protein, and, also, a larger amount of food than Professor Chittenden. He thinks that the efficiency of the American people is due. in part, to this more liberal diet. These three authorities agree in not eliminating meat entirely from the diet, but they disagree in the amount that is healthful to eat. Then come the non-meat eaters or vegetarians who, from ethical or physiological reasons or both, do not believe in the use of meat. They contend that they have strength and endurance and freedom from disease. Some vegetarians allow the use of milk and eggs in the diet, but others use no animal products. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.