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Show rHl jo " a I RAIN Worker lAN'T EAT Too UGH MEAT jMpyE "have been, bo often advised against excessive SwHL meat eating that it is a delightful change to be ftH told by an authority in dietary matters that It IRlttost impossible for ub who live in a temperate HM&te and pursue sedentary lives to consume too HjBb.e scientist who authorizes meat eating is no less a B:Kons Dn Rul)nei who, writing in a German scl-jBc scl-jBc paper, explodes a good many classic notions re- vwrate workers, physicians have hitherto told us, can mucu leBs naeat than physical workers. Not so, Hr Dr. Rubner. Brain workers require more meat Jay, physical laborers, just as brain workers need 0jKjjer clotlimS and a warm room to sit in while K'aMbumen, the principal nutritive constituent of meat, JpMw;two important functions material and dynamic, raKF au l"'e,,a011 must consume a minimum of one .$Bje of albumen a day; otherwise tho oolls die, be 'Jk albumen is the basis of all their nutritive proc-'IflBm- Nursing infants alone, and very young children, .-IflMf.BubsJst on the minimum of albumen required to "rRj ife' Tl10 reanon for 'this seeming anomaly in ?lBthe growing organism is better ablo than the adult sMgalem to utilize evcty bit of nourishment ingested. 'fH?-6 sdult organism a large exceaB of albumen is re-.rjpdt re-.rjpdt if the body Is to remain healthy. Two to thir-'H, thir-'H, ounces of albumen will do tho adult organism no -'"IB? as the excoss Is employed in producing energy. ''jMjis danger of taking too little albumen into the body jffeovlde for growth and reserve energy is greater in lfchysically inactive than in the active, because work-JUrgans work-JUrgans or muscles, like those of a growing child, are "fljpr able to employ to advantage every toU of nltro-JHppntalnlng nltro-JHppntalnlng alnumen taken into the system, ef increase in bodily boat following meat eating can btiiaHi?Bted ky watcuIll5 tne respiration. A person who Science Discovers That the ALBUMEN Meat Contains Is Even MOKE NECESSARY to I " "A peraon, one-half of whose dally ration of food con-slBt8 con-slBt8 of albumen not necessarily all meat Increases bodily heat by 27 per cent." has eaten a good 'beefsteak, if entering a cold room, will not feel the cold temperature as quickly as a person who is underfed In albumen. The temperature will have to he lowered materially before any discomfort is Telt, ns revealed by tho Increased excretion of carbon dioxide by the lungs. A person, one half of whose dally ration of food consists con-sists of albumen not necessarily all meat Increases bodily heat by 27 per cent., enabling him to be comfortable, comforta-ble, in a temperature eighteen degrees lower than. Is comfortable for a person consuming less albumen. This resistance to cold by an eater of excessive albumen Is the reason why meat is a splendid food for bruin workers, work-ers, who are forced by their avocation to sit still the greater part of the day. Excess of albumen has another advantage to the brain worker. After eating meat there Ib almost always a specific outburst of energy, manifesting itself in greater mental brilliance and efficiency, a factor of uncalculnble value to the man who relies on his brains to earn .him a living, and to whom a witty idea or a new viewpoint or sharper insight Is of greater value than a capacity for uninspired, sustained work. On the other hand, the man who workB physically ehould not oat much meat, for In moving about we can not get rid of excess of heat by sending a greater supply sup-ply of blood to skin and brain.; Only through profuse ) i perspiration, produced by carbohydrates carbohy-drates such as sugar, can excess of heat be dissipated by him who moves about a great deal. In connection with the value of meat as a food for brain workers, as pointed out by Dr. Runner, it Is interesting in-teresting to note that Herbert Spencer, Spen-cer, the noted author of philosophical philosophi-cal works, abandoned meat eating for a year in order to try out the claims of vegetarians. lie found that during this time his literary work deteriorated de-teriorated materially, and he resumed 'meat eating in order to bring hia work up to tie standard he set himself. MENTAL Acfivitvlhan to PHYSICAL IV The question arises and this Dr. Rubuer docs not answer why is meat a stimulant as well as a food? He emphasizes, it is true, that vegetables such as lentils len-tils and beans, known to contain approximately as much, albumen as meat," are nevertheless not a satisfactory satisfac-tory substitute for meat. Why then should they fail in producing the same energy in tho human body and human hu-man brain? What food value docs meat contain that the leguminous vegetables mentioned lack? The answer may come from an unexpected quarter. Metschnikoff's experiments showed that our Intestines nre inhabited by swarms of. bacteria, and he suggested that by getting rid of these life might be prolonged xmV torially. A German scientist, to test the value of this theory, fed some chicks which had been incubated la strictly sterilized surroundings, with sterilized food only that is, food that would produce no Intestinal bacteria, The sterilized chicks were pitiable objects. They lived, lost in weight from day to day, and finally, after a week or ten days, died. The German doctor then took JM a chick which had only a few more hours to live, and placed It in unsterilized surroundlngB, feeding it with, bread and milk, which were 'bound to develop intestinal bacteria. The chick, placed in normal surroundings, began to gain weight and 'became strong and well. i How RAINY WEATHER AFFECTS YOUR HEALTH ? -j-fTIE universal interest in the effect of I dampness upon our animal tissues may be judgeu from tho number of ailments ? which people blame upon the weather. Hitherto doctors have laughed at this idea and termed it S only a foolish superstition. A-sk almost any S doctor about the ills due to humanity and the S rain and he would patronizingly tell you that "the rain, it raineth every day" somewhere. Professor P. E, Lutz in the course of his ex-l ex-l perimental work at the Carnegie station has dis- covered facts which, together with recent dls-? dls-? coveries, mado by a number of other scientists, S mairce him couclude that it as correct to blame s dew and dampness, humidity and moisture, rail. t and snow for much of the sickness which ovor-S ovor-S takes us. I The caterpillars of certain 'butterflies have S beautiful vari-colored markings upon them. If. however, the heat is kept at a constant tempera-tui'e tempera-tui'e and the surrounding humidity is varied in different ways, the colors and their arrangement upon, these creatures are changed in very definite defi-nite ways. Mosquitoes, beetles, dragonllies, 'butterflies, moths, and a host of other animals all show their susceptibility to dampness. Professor Tower gives the results of experiments in which evoryUhing was kept as usual, except the moisture mois-ture In the air. The beautiful bugs which he used leptinotarsa decemlineata is their awesome awe-some name "feel best" with 75 per cent of moisture mois-ture in the air. When dew is deposited humidity Is 100 per cent or at a sultry saturation point and these little creatures quickly show the depressing de-pressing effects of that condition. These bugs of Dr. Tower's were placed Jn all norts of -atmospheres ranging from great dry- Whv Americans Have STRONG FACES S A-jr-THSE abundant evidence that the faces of immi s 8 grants who come to America begin to take on more of a "Yankee" look has 'been a matter of I wide comment. There is a reason for 'it, of course, and I a very simple one. Comparatively few people seem ?j to have boon nMe to find it out I Pat upon,uhe face, like fat on almost any other portion por-tion of 'the body, is largely duo to the deposit of adipose tissue and the failure of muscular action to remove it. The arm of a 'blacksmith is big and Bturdy, hut dt is not fat, the arm of many an elderly society woman Is fat, but not strong. The agricultural JaJborer who works in the field is never fat about his body, because the body is being -constantly exercised, but his face is often heavy and lumpish. The business man, more or loss crouched over liis desk, -his neck moro less rigidly 'held in a modern collar, Is apt to get thick-necked and double-chinned, but a double chin was ness to the saturation point Their colors fll4 IH appeared and they became pale, anaemic, and JA waxy while when the humidity of the anr round them rose tbove SO or 90 per cent. JM These discoveries of the influence of humidity, upon living structures force the medical profes-slon profes-slon to sit up and revise all scepticism upon the Influences of air moisture, rain and dew upon vM both tho sick and the well. They prove that It IH Is far from nonsense to think that our corns ache or our rheumatic joints pain ua when, a storm is coming. Many similar experiments were anade upon larvaie and non-adult forms of living oreaturea. They all show that dampness plays havoc as j seriously with babies as it does wilth grown BJ men and women. Every intelligent mother Kl knows infants are most susceptible t ochanges in their surroudings. They canuot adapt them. IH selves to sudden changes of dampness and mols-i an impossibility (o the sailor of oideo. times, to whom vigilance was a na In just the same wny, a face that Seldom changes its expression, or, in other words, that seldom uses Its face muscles, becomes heavy and fat; a IH face, on the other hand, where the jH expressions follow one after the other rapidly, where the face muscles ar in constant play, gains musculo strength and loses heaviness.. |
