Scientific feedingRoper, Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel)
Science
Scientific feeding
Roper, Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel)
Cooking, American; Food
In this age of refinement, our teeth, which were made to last as long
as our bodies, begin to decay before we are matured. Foods are ingested
into our bodies instead of being digested. Public hygienists and
technical bacteriologists work hard, trying to prevent such diseases
as diphtheria, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and many
other infectious and epidemic diseases, resulting from unclean food and
water, and imperfect sewage systems.
Even with the purest of milk, meat, and water, we can make a filthy
garbage can of our intestinal tract by the ingestion of foods which do
not harmonize chemically, the result being decomposition. Right here we
have all the dangers of modern diseases and pus formation, resulting
in appendicitis, phlebitis, ovaritis, cancer, Bright’s disease, and
all the above mentioned diseases, without having to look further for
the garbage can on the back porch or the sewage system in the yard.
The waste products from our tables, and the excretions from our bodies
would be less dangerous to health if the selection, combination, and
preparation of our food were more natural. The excretions of properly
fed animals are not so dangerous to our health; why should ours be?
The hygienic rules as taught by the orthodox Jew in reference to the
combination and preparation of foods are wise. He is not allowed to mix
milk and meat, meat and fish, and many other articles of food which do
not combine well chemically. The Jewish methods of killing animals and
the preliminary preparations--such as the watering and salting of meats
before cooking--are also more hygienic. They eliminate part of the
toxins of the meat, which have been in close contact with the air.
Since life and personal health are generally in charge of woman, the
right place for every girl under eighteen or twenty years is at home
or in school. No young girl under this age should be allowed to enter
a profession, workshop, or business college. An occupation which by
long hours of work over-develops a certain set of muscles and nerves
before maturity, will produce an abnormal development and an unstable
temperament. Co-education at this age is also harmful, the result
being premature development, and elopement marriages, or arrested
sexual development and extreme independence, or marriage and continual
suffering, owing to physical defects and lack of knowledge of the care
of the human body, and of domestic science.
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