Show INERT FOOD lite life in the fur furnace nado giving out life conserving heat into the house means meana that something nag to bo be continuously dying in the furnace for to maintain that heat some borne form of potential energy has got to bo be con continuously tenuously re leaved in the furnace and this la Is achieved by dig digesting or of decomposing or in plain english by burning coal or some other form of carbon in the firebox I whether it bo be in your furnace or in your own body in n tile the wheat plant or in the single coiled celled amoeba life is IB a continuous process as of dying all organic life exists in a state of continuo us decomposition and rebuilding a perpetual state of mutation what to la true of the fire Is equally true of ourselves the principles being identical Iden ticul As AB soon as an decomposition ceases reconstruction ceases as soon as wo we cease dying we cease boase living life in roan man plant amoeba or the furnace Is merely vibration nn an individual transformation of pote potential nUal energy that varies only in degree all living matter contains substances of peculiar molecular structure and composition far more complex than any compounds found in inorganic nature dut tile the difference between these organic and Inor inorganic gante substances to Is only a difference of degree and many of the most characteristic io of the substances have been artificially made tu in the chemical laboratory hullt built up out of the commonest elements on the surface of the earth these or organic gaille compounds are grouped into three classes carbohydrates sugar starch and cellulose fats and proteins of these three compounds compo unda the proteins are by far the most important por tant for while the mol molecule beule of tat fal or carbohydrate consists entirely of combinations of the three element carbon hydrogen and oxygen the protein molecule always contains in ill addition nitrogen and sulphur the carbohydrate and the fat so BO 4 far as we know appear to be only U 4 heat and energy giving compounds ex ackry equivalent to tho the coal wo we burn in the furnace or in the firebox of a steam engine dut but the proteins have at least a double function to perform and probably others we ha have vp not yet grasped for not only must they supply energy but also the structural material the brick stone alone mortar iron and other inorganic gante material out of which our bodies are composed it is no more possible for us to maintain our bodies in health without a generous supply of these inorganic than it would be for us to keep keel a gasoline engine running for an indefinite period of years by merely feeding it gasoline common sense tells us that the engine must be taken to the shop every so often ofte n an and d th the e worn parts renewed it if wo we vre ore to secure continuous action or any sort of efficiency from tho the oil consumed all organic life rests on ono one funds funda f mental and vital fact which Is that j the seed seea bearing plants have wath few known exceptions the exclusive power of absorbing energy direct 11 from the inorganic un under der the stimulus of sunlight in the action of the green coloring matter of plant life analogous to the red coloring matter in human blood in sunlight L undoubtedly lies iles the key to the mystery of life but with the sublime assurance of ignorance we step in and deliberately break this a cycle of life by discarding elements that offend our color sense or that interfere with our business it for instance wheat flour will not keep we remove the bran the woody matter and the mineral salts together with w ath a portion of tile the protein matter and the germ it makes a much whiter ter and lighter bread anyway and the experts tell us that it to Is more digesti 1 tile hie too and besides the insoluble by products byproducts make fine food for stock cattle chickens and other forms of i life grow fat and sleek on a diet to m which these thebe waste products byproducts by are added 1 evidently these waste products ta have a x very profound influence on the metabolism of the lower forms of life I 1 li 11 but it Is argued that that has nothing 1 to do with man mail we are still hitched to the idea that man Is a thing apart from all the rest of creation and that 4 if anything becomes the matter with i his machine it Is because an evil spirit J gets in and he must pour some vile 4 tasting combination down his throat S to drive the evil eil thing out Ale antime the fact that somo some fifteen millions ot of our nineteen odd million ra illion children enrolled in tile the schoola are shown to b be 0 more or less leas physically detective defective fro froat nn insufficient building material BUP supplier PIle in ili their food and the fact that we or are 4 experiencing a constantly antly increasing Inc increasing reasin it economic loss through the premature premature pre matur death of our matured lives do not a ap pear to be so important to us as tha we shall havo have nice white foods will koep |