Show NUTRITIVE VALUE OF BEER From The Literary Literal Digest May 20 1009 1909 Some years roarn ago aso a 11 great grent outcry outer was raised over Professor Atwaters dis discovery discovery discovery covery that hint alcohol In small quantities wa wan oxidized In the tho human system ami produced heat and was therefore a n food After Arter a long 10 lg and acrimonious discussion In which the professor was called a n number of hard names It I dawned upon his detractors that this scientific fact did not In nay any way wn deny den the Iho evils of intemperance or oppose their advocacy of total abstinence ab ence once It was indeed merely a n scientific title tHic truth with no moral bearing ono ouo onoway way or the thc other A somewhat simi similar tar lar report has bus just been heen made public by b n a special government commission In England in which a good word Is uttered for the nutritive value alue of beer The general idea that beer is primarily marily an alcoholic drink is opposed in this report which holds that when whon well vell and properly made It Is a beve beverage beverage beverage rage containing a very ver small amount of alcohol and anel a relatively large arge amount of nutritive material Says The Hospital London May Ma 1 In Inan Inan inan I an editorial the Iho report I It Sit Is time that lint the tho erroneous view I that thal beer has no nutritive value in It Itself Itself itself self and merely consists of a hover bover boverI I age ago upon which a certain portion ot of o oI I the community Intoxicates Itself I I should be exposed and discredited I The Tho Th results of our commission show how I that al heel beer Is par pal excellence the nutritive tive tivo alcoholic beverage All AI bever beverages beverages ages because they ther contain alcohol should not be bo regarded In the same came light The is II quite Quile a different act from the beer heel drinker In fact beer is If much farther removed from tho the point of view of ofUs Us Its alcohol content from some som wines II 1 and all spirits thann it Js ls rOm from ginger I beer beerI I When rhen a n man drinks good beer he drinks and anti cats at the tho same sarno time lime just justas as ab when he ho cats cals a bowl howl of soup The Tho terms lorms eat ont and drink are arc curiously but bul Inconsistently used as connoting g the Iho lh difference between what is merely quenching our thirst and what Is ac acv actually consuming nourishment Our commissioners point out a man might more properly be he said to eat cat beer than I to lo cat eat certain kinds of soup SOUl or In Indeed Indeed indeed deed watermelons ns Their report will enable members of the medical pro pm profession pron fr and tho the public to understand clearly what whal constitutes good beer beor and where and how hold they ther may mn obtain It I Deor the lie numbers of whom wo we hope will Increase Incense consider considerably considerably considerably ably as the lie result of or the researches of our commissioners are arc now In a u posh lion 1011 t to lo protect themselves from bad beers heels and we hold the view that It ItI I would Well III be bo better for the tho of the tho people of these is islands Islands I lands hands as a whole if Ir they were lo to se select select lect beer as n their habitual drink rath rather rathe er e than wines Ines or spirits Climatic conditions have a good deal to do with the dietetic value of substances used for allaying thirst Our commission commissioners ers properly drive drie home that when a aman aman aman man drinks lice heel or 01 stout habitually he lie Is not only drinking but eating a fact which had bath not net been sufficiently recognized In recent years ears These beverages contain all nil the elements clements of or ofa ora a typical diet with the exception of fat and In a proportion approximate approximately ly physiological Our commissioners remind us that lint If the flue worth of a food Is measured by Its Us calorimetric value the fact Is that a glass of good ale Is approximately as nourishing as ns a glass of mills milk and anti that a quart of beer is nearly nearl equivalent to a quarter of oC a pound of oC beef I These remarks must not be mis misconstrued misconstrued misconstrued construed Wo We are aro quite alive alivo as our I commissioners are aro to the tremendous harm done by the abuse of alcohol and the good done by sympathizing with temperance At the same time with the Iho philanthropists desire to Improve mankind we have Wu UIO scientists re ro reI regard gurd gard for fact Upon untruth no en enduring I during d fabric however philanthropic its motive can ever be bo securely secure built The fact is ds that good properly made beer beel Is a n beverage containing a very vory small smal amount of alcohol and a rela rea relatively relatively livel largo large amount of nutritive n ma material materia material teria It Is too often forgotten that beverages like and anti contain slightly more than 1 per cent of alcohol Out Our commissioners give I sonic somo Interesting comparisons comp between beer tea and Those com comparisons comparisons I indicate that beer compares favorably with both hoth these products and our commissioners properly Insist that it il would be e difficult to find a ameal ameal meal at once simpler and anel more nutritive nutritive tive than a a crust of bread brend and cheese or bread and nd butter or both and beer Pure Vanilla Extract I Pure P rated Extract of or Lemon Lomon wore were noth I ing In more than water with a al alcohol alcohol alcohol cohol and slight flavoring of somo some chemical Nutmeg Flavor was wa ter with a slight Infusion of ot the tho oil of nutmeg Donton Bonton Don ton Extract Com Fine Extracts New York were made mado and put up In Salt Lake ex r 1 tract ut ul all but all nIl water with half a teaspoonful of or chemicals it Is ls the tho Intention to expose these theRe frauds gi g Ing the tho names of tho the stores from Crom which h hI the articles were taken I J |