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
Bread leavened, or unleavened, made out of what is called the Cold
Blast Whole Wheat Flour, makes more muscle and furnishes more food for
the nerves than any other article of food given to man except the pure
gluten of wheat. I am not now advocating the views of the extremists,
the Grahamites, neither do I counsel the disuse of fine flour bread.
This latter should be used in connection with unbolted flour, but
should not be relied on to furnish you with all the nutritious elements
that your bodies need. There is a golden mean between the extremes
of vegetarianism and exclusive flesh diet which the common sense of
thoughtful people will find. During the warm season a diet made up
chiefly of fruits, grains, and vegetables will be most healthful
for body and soul. Instead of the scrofula-breeding pork or ham for
breakfast, use some one of the great variety of grains, especially
oat-meal, than which there are few better foods for growing children
and hard working adults. Instead of fried cakes, rich pastry, and
candies, use fruit, of which there is an abundant variety, ten-fold
more nourishing than pies or cakes, and very cleansing to the blood.
Let brown bread, Johnnie-cake, and corn-meal pudding supplant fine
wheat bread as much as possible. Eat your meals regularly and slowly,
eating nothing between them. Eat sparingly of meat at mid-day, and let
it be good fresh beef, mutton, or fish, well cooked. Let the evening
meal be taken not later than six o’clock. Discard tea and coffee, and
make your own coffee with browned crusts of bread, or burned whole
wheat.[2] Follow these suggestions and you will find very many of the
ills of your body departing and very many of the troubles you have in
behaving yourselves, vanishing.
[2] The Health Food Company prepare a “Cereal Coffee” from Wheat Gluten
and Barley, which not only makes a delicious beverage, but tends
to greatly strengthen both body and brain. Those who would release
themselves from the dangerous practice of tea-drinking, and the less
injurious but still objectionable use of the commercial coffees, will
do well to try this nutrient beverage.
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