Show 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 k N i it F FOOD C CHANGES H ANGES A lZ reason leoniso oniso for tho ine increasing beasing C oon on Bump tion of nutriment I 1 I 1 the rhe 1 1 r acne of u changes g cs in our food consumption seeing slot not to lo be generally recognized if indeed it is coll 11 V Jil lowit alint there ire are anny A n finateri material ical change 0 it is quito quite a 11 c 11 established t fact act that while the quality of food bas greatly gained tile amount of that hat catli bial il lias has increased 1 anil and that iu in many articles the increase ia n enor motis it connot cannot lie maile ab certain that people ent eat more food in wei flit than llian they lil did say fifty ignets years or more inore ago hut bilt mol luo rc c t Is i rial for it a conspicuous improvement of the food of tile the present over that of tile past is in its nutritious properties so that thai even though 0 ill hie ft eight lie less now novy we get more nutriment in ninny many articles however the weight es has increased by large percent aiges tile mean sare sarc not at hand for making an ail exhausting of relative food consumption it at different periods but nevertheless such stich materials as are available so far as ahey go warrant some inferences thal thai can call hardly be questioned the fact can hardly be questioned that the per capita food consumption has enormously increased the inference usually drawn from this fact is that ahat life is more pleasurable than alian it used to be which is of course true enough not only have the gustatory 0 nerves been introduced to more prolonged nned delights but the physical vi vigor or that distinguishes 0 a well viell fed mail from one who is poorly fed has bocook the 0 good fort fortune latic of tile race ace r though the world may now be living within it a year or so of starvation at il is kept far enot enough ivil ahead to lie be beyond all ail the lures of misfortune in tile the prod production of food supply a happy situation that was not always that of our an cc ce the reason for our increasing f food coil consumption lies it in tile the law of the equivalence qui valence of forces our depend mental enco for maintaining physical and mental ener energies 0 is tup nutriment that ihal goes into our stomachs and we ve can es ivet get no more of these energies enemies 0 than sure fire contained in our food just aa tile work of a steam enina en engina ina is cie mechanical equivalent of lie heat contained in the coil coal that alres the furnace the requite requirements ments of progressing g civilization demind dem ind abundant polder power in the individual to thern tile increase inere isu being somei somewhat hat in physical power perhaps comparing 0 tile extremes of 1 a I lono long period but bul the greatest 0 increase being inin mental and nervous power file people of lazy races cat le less ss titan than tile the people of industrious ones observe the regularly a fed mexican or indian and no notice tice how much less tic he eats cats than tile new E na lander there is nearly as t great a 1 I dil difference Ifer euce in ill tile the food coil consumption go of tile hie southern poor white while and the tic active live and vigorous i orous men of tile the north as I 1 have rc repeatedly noticed not icell when seeing them cat together universally y in ill animal fc borca forca expended mental and physical bears a relation to food consumed tile inactive snake wi will 11 live on oil a toad for months a small bird darwin has sho shown vii would not do well unless ho he ato ate liis his weight 0 in worms every days what the great demand of modern lif life e is upon the human body a and I 1 1 I particularly its nervous structure appear upon noting how little must have been sufficient sufficient cieni to maintain the kind of life that existed say a century rip ago there was brute force expended then anti and not much else there was then no flue une and it industrial dust du fial adjustments to 0 be made there was nas a little feeble thought and 0 the striking iii m force of the energy A expended was insignificant beside lilt what it we now met gel by multiplying the mass of our akiye energy by its speed tile the serious ili ii nervous diseases dia cases proves how much greater renter the strain now is than our forefathers had to endure ciK luie to sustain the 0 greater reater demands of progressive living C theford the food eaten caten mut must bear some correspondence with tako energy that it is necessary to obtain I 1 not that nerve power and physical resistance si stance have no source bill food tile the inheritance of the organism and its training are not ignored but pw power er can call not be used until it is supplied lieI in ill some form of equivalences and tile the human body depends for this I 1 supply on oil its food which fa reappears appears in infinite luite degrees of uni liz ailon according ina to the ability to assimilate find transform this increasing consumption of food lias has called upon our dig esthe system to make adjustments it that at they arc not always ablerto able to doand do and div civilized I 1 man mail is ir unhappy lint I 1 app y under dyspepsia which is ng aggravated A cl by sedentary life unrelieved by due physical exercise and by some excessive eating cating 0 caused liy by the delicious lieas of the food which our modern cooks known so well liow how to make inake but changing cecils must in tit lime heend end I 1 ill in I 1 e adjustments alid among people nho ho are arc in ili the title line of PrO gLoss impe apsia find nervous diseases alist bioc 0 at la last 4 their worst features thera afo Q one thin tiling in ili these statistics t hat agitators igneri and clial ill at is ling the haige lai i ge intoxicating 1 I toxie ming liquor lull bill 05 of tho nat tion joi the hie per capita consumption 0 of f dia di tilled spirits lias has declined 51 per cant ill i forty five years lie reason beill being that t aliis its I 1 drink r n c is s becoming ili incompatible crilli 0 aig ani civilia liza lion tile small inc increase rense in ili 1 client I I 1 c 1 l t britain probably I a stationary or condition of c soule bra nelies of the i lowest working classes george gcorge 0 ac X holmes ILI housekeeping es |