Food and Morals: 6th EditionClymer, J. F. (John F.)
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Food and Morals: 6th Edition
Clymer, J. F. (John F.)
Food; Sermons, American -- 19th century
One reason why children fed chiefly on white bread feel hungry nearly
all the time, and demand so much food between meals, is found in the
fact that their bodies are insufficiently nourished. Their bones
and nerves not receiving the nitrates and phosphates they need, are
suffering from hunger.
When children are fed with food that thoroughly nourishes their whole
system, they will seldom desire to eat between meals and thus retard
the process of digestion and lay the foundation for dyspepsia and all
its kindred evils.
Flour made of all the nutriment of pure white wheat, unbolted, yet
without the shell or husk or bran, contains all the elements necessary
for the nourishment of the body. The flour called Graham flour rarely
contains these elements. There is a great deal of bogus stuff in the
market, which has brought the genuine article into disrepute, and made
many thoughtful people disgusted with everything in that line. Very
much that is called Graham flour is made up of a mixture of fine bolted
flour, and the woody fibre of the wheat, which has no nutriment in it
at all. This wretched fabrication has tended to make all whole wheat
products unpopular. The woody bran is worse than worthless as food,
or to mix with food. You might as well eat the shells of nuts, or the
husks of corn, or the skins of potatoes, as the silex coats of wheat.
To overload the alimentary canal with such foreign indigestible matter
has no other tendency but to weaken and debilitate it. Very few millers
trouble themselves to make a perfect whole wheat flour. I know but one
establishment in the world where wheat and other grains are treated
precisely as they should be, with all the harmful part removed and the
rest made digestible by harmless methods, and that is the Health Food
Company of New York.[1]
[1] See Appendix, page 30.
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