Show ft JOHN JOSEPH mil f CURED MEATS MATS B EST FOR SUMMER IER A dog may eat meats all his life die of old age age- The ox may do the same on a vegetarian diet exclusively exclusively- But man is a H avery avery very complex highly organized being and requires wide vide variety nourish his body He must have both animal and vegetable food properly bet bel- j bel-j anted Meat leat is n not of the only ani am animal anil 1 mal mat food all dairy products are animal Fresh meats must be dimin diminished or eaten with great care during hot months I saw a fat old eld man buying two pounds of I fresh pork sausage the other other- evening for his breakfast next morning I bought ten cents I worth of chipped beef beef and and I Iam Iam am a fat old man myself I hadas hadas had hadas as lief swallow a hot flat iron on a warm morning as two or three pats of fresh pork sausage sausage sau sage Cured meats are preferable in hot weather my reason for this belief is that the curing takes much Irl of the nitrogenous ele ele- ment out of it and leaves the lean cells which are provided w wit with l t h hen e en n ough restoring blood-restoring b elements clements to restore energies that have been in part exhausted exhaust exhaust- ed by the days day's toil Meats Meats' from the amount of combustion necessary to appropriate them to our needs are producers heat-producers and fresh meats produce more heat than cured meats It lIt requires requires re reo quires more systematic I outlay to digest fresh meats meats more more of potential energy and this is not conductive to good feeding in hot weather A moderate ate portion portion por pore tion of cured meat once a day I supplies the need of true the body and is much more com comfortably Y borne I A n not o t her argument against I excess of fresh meats is that the strong juices in meats those characteristic of the animal animal animal ani ani- mal slaughtered slaughtered are are hurt hurtful ul if not adaptable to the human body Th The more of the the- native juices that are moved by curing the better for us A |