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DIET AND
HEALTH
By DR J T ALLEN
Food Spcciolut
Author of Eating for a
Purpose The fteta
Gospel of Health
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Copyright by Joseph B Bowles
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SIXTY DAYS ON PEA
NUTS AND LEMONADE
On October 18 1907 I began an ex
clusive diet of peanuts and lemon
ade and subsisted on that alone for
60 days
What did you do it for Do you
still live on poanuts How should
peanuts be taken Have you changed
your mind about their food value
These are somo of the questions that
I am frequently asked
Such was the novelty of my experi
ment which was undertaken as a
scientific demonstration that the av
erage person refused to consider it
seriously The newspapers treated it
largely as a joke except that many of
them reported toward the end of the
time that I had died a result which
many were expecting
For several years I had been test
ing the relative values of foods by
living for a time on one alone and
recording the results Incidentally I
had reached the conclusion for rea
sons which I shall give in a later ar
ticle that cereal starch is the only
element of vegetable food improved
by cooking and tnat cereal starch is
unnecessary in our diet and fre
quently injurious particularly in the
case of infants and children I had
found that cooking injures the most
important element of food albumen
from which the cells of brain and
brawn are built and precipitates to a
largo extent the mineral elements
sulphur phosphorus magnesia potash
etc so essential to vigorous healthy
life so that they cannot be absorbed
into the blood I had come to believe
also after much investigation that
fruit should form a large part of our
diet and I had been prescribing in
certain cases a diet of uncooked pea
nuts and gluten uncooked in small
quantities with fruits eaten separate
ly and had seen remarkable improve
ment in some cases
One day it was reported in an
Aurora 111 paper I lived in Aurora
that a girl had died from eating pea
nuts and at the same time the chair-
man of the local board of health at
tributed a case of poisoning to eating
peanut candy
To prevent an undesirable counter
suggestion on the minds of those who
were eating peanuts by my advice
more than to defend my own theories
I stated my view of these cases call
ing attention to the great difference
between cooked and uncooked pea
nuts and to show the firmness of my
belief in the correctness of my con
clusions I said that I would be will
ing to live for 60 days on uncooked
peanuts and have the results care
fully recorded daily by the board of
health and give my body for dissec
tion and analysis if I failed tq survive
the experiment
I had lived for several days on pea
nuts on apples on prunes on starch
on nothing and I knew that by fasting
for a few days when the indications
required it I should have no diffi
culty in performing the feat But my
friends begged me to desist urging
that I was losing my professional dig
nity and many of them accused me
of insanity which I was they said
deliberately fostering by this strange
freak I had studied on my theories
Jew Names Anglicised
Speaking of the tendency on the
part of foreign born Jews to change
Iheir name the Hebrew Standard
says Here are a few of the meta
morphic exhibitions which have taken
place recently as they appear in the
session laws of the state Mr Levit
sky is now Mr Lee Mr Limburger
is now Mr Limburg Mr Lipski is
now Mr Lipps Mr Moscovitz is now
Mr Morrison Mr Oshinsky Is now
Mr Brown Mr Ashmerowenowitz is
now Mr Sherry Mr Ostrowsky is
now Mr Ostruff Mr Podolsky is now
Mr Podal Mr Rabjnowitz is now Mr
Stein and Mr Raskowsky is now Mr
Ross
Of Henry Irving
if it be egotism to feel an interest
in all that humanity does and is to
sympathize with every righteous hu
man effort and every affection to
cherish as a priceless- treasure the
slightest gift or token of xemembrance
from a friend to labor unceasingly
in the service of a great art and of
every member of a profession too oft
en degraded and abused to help every
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of feeding till I was half gone and
now I was going to finish the job
The outcome however fully justi
fied the confidence with which the ex
periment was undertaken I lost 17
pounds in weight but continued my
usual work throughout the entire
period and in fact did a greatly in
creased amount of mental labor neces
sitated by the Increase In my corre
spondence interviews etc and on
the evening of the sixtieth day I gave
an address in the G A R hall of
Aurora on diot and morality speak
ing for three quarters of an hour
and followed that with a 20 minute
talk to an audience at the Coliseum
on the relation of diet to strenuous
endurance
Of courso the peanut Is not a com
plete diet and to keep In good condi
tion I fasted at intervals throughout
the 60 days a total of about eight
days Probably the extension of the
experiment to 120 days would not
have reduced my weight to the point
of physical collapse My height is
5 feet 11 inches and my weight
when I began was 165 pounds
We live by what we eat and the
character of our living depends upon
the kind of food we eat and the way
we eat it You can make a man good
or bad says Bishop Fallows accord
ing to the way you feed him The
building of brain cell and mind
stuff says Dr Alexander Haig the
distinguished English authority on
diet lies at the root of all the
problems of life
The mind is the measure of the
man what a man thinks he becomes
But the mind manifests through the
physical and the character of the
physical determines the character of
the mental as certainly as the mental
influences the physical The body
is the expression of the mind much
as a building is the expression of the
thought of the architect who designed
it And you can no more build a
sound beautiful enduring body with
out good food than an architect can
build a beautiful temple without steel
and marble
A crook in the mind makes a crook
in the body You cannot meet a
stranger without forming some im
pression of what he is You uncon
sciously recognize in physical form
and quality of body the character of
the man and the trained physiog
nomist phrenologist and physiologist
will undertake to read your charac
ter pretty accurately from its bodily
expression Now that body is mate
rial and the material Is food The
Eskimo is built of blubber the Scot
of oatmeal the Japanese of rice
and beans But the Eskimo could not
become a Scot by eating oatmeal and
barley meal for a thousand years
Food is only the material the mind
is the measure of the man The Scot
who has given us so much theology
metaphysics and science is the product
primarily of the mental stimulation of
Land of brown heath and shaggy
wood
Land of the mountain and the flood
So when we say that you are what
you eat we do not ignore the funda
mental importance of the mind It
is still true that as a man thinketh
so is he and that as a man eateth
so he thinketh We have heard so
much lately of the influence of the
mind upon the body that it is perhaps
time that the pendulum of thought
should again swing to the other side
the influence of the body upon the
mind and in time we may arrive at
the happy medium where truth lies
the knowledge of the inter relation
the essential unity of body and mind
the menta physical constitution
Scientific authorities agree that
vitality is a fixed quantity that each
individual is born with a certain store
of vital force and that when the stock
is exhausted he dies Vitality is ex
pended in work in restoring normal
conditions when sickness occurs in
defense against disease and in carry
ing on the normal functions of con
verting food into blood throwing off
waste and poisonous matter There is
no means of estimating the extent of
human being to whom help couldreach
and to do all in his power for the ad
vantage of a loved professional associ
ate then Henry Irving was an ego
tist but not otherwise William Win
ter in reply to Ellen Terry
Substitute for Confetti
The time may be opportune for an
appeal to inventors to consider the
urgent need there is for some substi
tute for confetti To admit that rice
was bad is not to make the substitute
any better It is comparatively pain
less when thrown but the absolute
impossibility of removing it trom
clothes or carpets without- picking it
off by individual particles should be
enough of itself to condemn it in the
eyes of all reasonable people
Snake Superstitions
The Sanskrit name for a serpent
means having poison in the dye
that is the fatal power to kill at a
glance Perhaps from some such no
tion as this the gratifying supersti
tion arose in Morocco that if a magic
rain fell on April 27 and got into the
eyes of snakes and scorpions they
would go blind
A Tribe of Fightihg Indians
Aborigines of Central America Seem
ingly Without Fear
I sojourned for more than a year in
Central America mostly in Hondur
as where I went tu make a study of
the native Indian tribes said Charles
C Lessener of New Orleans
These aborigines are mostly of
warlike mold and as brave fighters as
any of the human race X was es
pecially impressed with the inhabi
tants of the Copan and Gracias dis
tricts They are the best fighting
stock in all Latin America Three or
four hundred of them will often defeat
an army of thrice their size They
are ever eager for battle and reck
nothing of heavy adverse odds They
are supposed to be Christians but
from what I saw anrL learned of oth
ers I came to the belief that they prac
tice heathen rites and ceremonies
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Material in Battleship
In a 14000 ton battleship there are
about 13200 tons of steel 400 tons of
copper 140 tons of nickel 14 tons
of lead and ten tons of tin
Learning Lifes Lessons
Alcott Our bravest lessons are
not learned through successes but
disadventure
The love of gain never made a great
painter but it has marred many
Ahston
They are excellent fr ends but ter
rible enemies and if defeated in bat
tle are apt to visit theh wrathn theii
unfortunate officers
These Indians cling to their primi
tive customs and do most of theii
hunting with bows and arrows The
way they use the bow is rather unique
They sight their game calculate the
distance and then shoot their arrows
into the air whereupon the weapon
falls upon the mark whether bird or
beast seven times out of ten with
fatal effect Baltimore American
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any of these expenditures but we
know that the energy spent in digest
ing and eliminating food is conrid
erable We know that it Is Impossible
to do ones best work after a wavy
meal
Now it a large per cent of the
energy ordinarily expended in diges
tion including elimination can br
saved without loss of nutrition a
gain in working capacity in good feel
ing in length of life must result The
practice of a simple diet shows re
markable gains in thepe respects
The severe mental work done and the
mental strain sustained during the
period of my one sided peanut diet
indicates that the average person
over eats and eats too many kinds of
food
The first effect of sickness is loss
of appetite Nature then uses the
itality commonly used for digestion
to repair the defect to restore nor
mal health conditions Here is indi
cated he natural cure We knovr
what elements different foods contain
and what the body needs and upon
this knowledge is based a simple rad
ical cure of the one fundamental dis
ease defective nutrition of which all
diseases are but symptoms This
is the cure which the eminent Dr
Haig has said he has been convinced
by experience and experiment has
Jain all the time at our doors while
we have been using drugs as pallia
tives
Some important facts were devel
oped in contribution to this science
of radical cure by the peanut cxperi
ment
Hundreds of letters were received
during the test from people who but
for an accidental discovery of the
peanut diet would have been wear
ing a wooden overcoat while others
asked how to eat peanuts to avoid
their bad effects which suggests the
important fact that all foods are un
der certain circumstances poisonous
and the more concentrated obviously
the more virulent when misused
With a decrease in the daily food
rupply comes an increase in strength
with loss of weight The vitality or
dinarily expended in converting food
into blood and eliminating the waste
often excessive can be used in ex
traordinary mental work or in cure
even of deep seated chronic disease
The fact that appetite is always lost
immediately on the advent of sickness
or mental derangement violent fear
anger joy etc indicates that upon
the regulation of diet which implies
fasting as well as dieting must be
based the true scientific cure of the
one fundamental disease mal nutri
tion understanding that the term
nutrition in its widest sense in
cludes normal supply of air water
sunlight food exercise and right
mental conditions
Moroccos Ruler Kept Busy
Mulai Hafid the new sultan of Mo
rocco is a busy man He rises with
the sun and save for a short siesta
seems never to have any leisure time
at all He makes a point of attending
personally to all state business holds
reviews of his troops frequently re
ceives deputations from all parts of
the country listens almost daily to
translations of long extracts from the
European newspapers and metes out
rewards and punishments He receives
many piesents A Fez correspondent
tells how the other day gifts in the
shape of sacks of gold bales of silk
spices and jewelry poured in through
the palace gates and the sultan re
ceived the value of something like
125000 in the course of this one
mornings reception Among the
offerings was a splendid ruby ring
which seemed to take the royal fancy
for he forthwith put it on his finger
and wore it during the remainder of
the day
Every Man a Debtor to His Profession
I hold every man a debtor to his
profession from the which as men
of course do seek to receive counten
auce and profit so ought they of duty
to endeavor themselves by way of
amends to be a help and ornament
thereunto Bacon
Chinese Student Has Future
Vu Kyuin Willington Koo a Chinese
has been chosen to edit the Daily
Spectator at Columbia university If
is said to be the first time that a
Chinese student has been placed at
the head of an American college pa
per Editor Koo who is but 22 years
old is a slender chap fland is known
throughout the university as a master
of pure English He speaks without
accent knows more about American
politics than the average American
is a debater of wonderful ability and
one of the most popular men in the
university
THE TIE THAT BINDS SOME
Affecting Reconciliation Between Two
Really Loving Heart
There Is a certain couple who de
cided to separate awhile ago It
seemed that they were not affinities
after all and life together was unen
durable so the wife packed up her be
longings and was preparing for a trip
home At the time of parting she
picked up their little pet dog and
tucked him under her arm while her
other managed the suit case
Why youre not going to take
Trixy exclaimed the husband
Of course I am she announced I
couldnt live without him
Well I cant let the little fellow
go he insisted
And I simply wont leave him she
declared
So they argued for half an hour at
the end of which she decided to stay
and unpacked to cook dinner at which
Trixy was the guest of honor
Ready with the Answer
Miss Baxter feeling the effects of a
torrid afternoon in June was attempt
ing to arouse the interest of her lan
guid class by giving as she supposed
an interesting talk on the obelisk
After speaking for half an hour she
found that her efforts were wasted
Feeling utterly provoked she cried
Every word that I have said you have
let in at one ear and out of the other
You pointing to a girl whom she no
ticed had been particularly inattentive
throughout the entire lesson tell me
whaf is an obelisk
The pupil grasping the teachers
last words rose and promptly an
swered
An obelisk is something that goes
in one ear and out the other Suc
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She Pooh What is a kiss It is
nothing
He Well you once said you could
refuse me nothing you know Chips
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News from the Settlement
We are not exactly happy on the
way but we are not too mean to
shout Amen when the rest of the
world cries VHalleluia
Just how the editor knew we had
possum for dinner last Tuesday Is
more than we can tell but ho came
just in the nick of time and dined
with us
Wo have much for which to be
thankful We raise our own turkeys
but turkey for dinner is so common
in our settlement that wo sometimes
forget to thank Providence for it
There is no news to speak of ex
cept that well all build up this old
country if we keep the saw in the log
and keep the sawdust flying At
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One word of our language that is
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