Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New HygieneSinclair, Upton
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Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New Hygiene
Sinclair, Upton
Hygiene
We have corn pones, corn bread, brown bread containing oatmeal,
ordinary white bread, and oven toast—that is to say, slices of bread
baked in the oven until it is brown all the way through. From Battle
Creek we have malt honey, malted nuts, ripe olives, olive oil, fig
and prune marmalades made without cane sugar, various crackers and
grain preparations, and several other nut products. The Sanitarium
health-chocolate, a sweet made without the use of cane sugar, and with
chocolate divested of its caffeine, also appears on our table. We
have eliminated dessert at dinner, having learned not only at Battle
Creek, but in the sore school of experience, that the heterogeneous
mixtures of cream or milk and cane sugar and various mushy stuffs,
along with butter or lard, in the shape of pies and puddings and cakes,
are extremely undesirable foods. We find the sweet, pure taste of malt
honey an adequate and highly satisfactory substitute.
[Illustration: The Daily Swim]
Fruits rarely appear on the table at dinner, since we do not wish to
mix them with vegetables. They make their appearance in great abundance
at supper, which we have at five o’clock. At this meal we have various
cooked fruits, such as prunes or apricots or baked or stewed apples;
and of uncooked fruits, oranges, apples, figs, bananas, grapes, and
whatever else the market affords. With these we have zweibach and
common bread or crackers. At both meals appears Yogurt, an acidulous
and agreeable beverage which gratefully checks thirst and in itself
nourishes, and is also the vehicle whereby millions of beneficial germs
are introduced into the body.
The work of preparing and serving these two meals is done by one
person—and that person has time left to play tennis and go in swimming
with the rest of us. The total cost of the food is less than thirty
dollars a week; cooked and served, its cost is about three dollars and
a quarter a week per person. In this connection it should be explained
that Bermuda prices, for even the commonest things, are in excess of
prices in New York. We pay five cents each for eggs and twelve cents
a quart for milk. We have oranges by the barrel, but they come from
California, or from Jamaica by way of New York. We have olive oil at
four dollars a gallon, and sterilized butter at fifty cents a pound.
And in addition the figures quoted include expressage and steamer
charges, and ten per cent. duty as well. We mention these things for
the light they throw upon the relative costs of the vegetarian and
carnivorous life.
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