Show I Oxygen Staff of Life LiCe Oxygen rather than bread is the I staff of life All vital functions require require require re re- re- re quire energy and this energy is obi obtained ob oh- i tamed when the atmospheric oxygen oxygen oxy oxy- gen dissolved in blood attacks and I consumes the sugar and fat in the animal organism But oxygen is a deplorable nuisance when it takes a short cut and attacks human food before we have had time to eat it asserts an authority in the Chicago Tribune This undesirable action I 1 of oxygen is not exactly the same sameI j I as that which takes place in the I body The latter is a complete oxidation similar to burning in which the fat and sugar are entirely converted into carbon dioxide and water I |