Dogs Better Fed Than Babes

NZ Truth, Issue 997, 3 January 1925, Page 7

Dogs Better Fed Than Babes

56 Says J. Ellis Barker ■• ; •■"■■■'■' ■ ■■' — — ~ — ■■ ■ • ■■- ■ » j Writes Gf" Poisoned Food, " Cooking Crimes, And "Civilised Diseases"

Civilised nations (writes Mr. J. Ellis Barker J Suffer from a great many defeats and diseases which are practically unknown to -the primitive races. The natives of primitive countries have as a rule splendid hair, perfect eyesight/ excellent teeth* a faultless digestion, :' straight limbs, and sturdy bbn^s.. They do not suffer fi'om in-\ and constipation, which are, truly diseases of civilisation. ( Half our diseases or. more spring from wrong nutrition. That is the experience of every doctor. Diseases of Our Children. We want wholesome, pure, clean, unadulterated and unmanipulated milk m the formin which Nature has produced it. "We do not want.to be deprived of the cream: and of the lifegiving elements, .of the vitamines. Most of the diseases of children are due to wrong feeding, they are due largely to impoverished and bad milk. ..' Bread is called the staff of life. It is supremely important to the people m general. In many families bread forms the bulk of the food. Good bread is an almost perfect food for men and -beasts. Experiments made have.. shown that irien and animals can flourish on a diet consisting exclusively of wholemeal • bread and water. * . V The most valuable part of all grains of the husk and the outer layers of the berry. These are as a rule ground off. The bread we eat is 'of startling whiteness. Bearl barley and polished rice also are deprived of the outer • layers, which contain the vitamines. ' Experiments made have shown that men arid animals fall seriously . ill if only oil white bread , and water. The system,' deprived of the vitamines, wastes. Indigestion and . constipation arfe produced, serious inflammatory diseases follow, and animals fed on white bread for some time rapidly fall a prey to nerve diseases, they lose the power over their lijnbs, suffer from internal ulcers, appendicitis, etc., and die a miserable death.. . ..". We require the outer layers of the gr&in. which, as a rule, are fed to cattle and pigs. These outer layers contain not only the life-giving vitamines, but also the, roughage which furnishes an. invaluable stimulus to our insides. What Our Teeth Can Do. 'Good teeth are a priceless blessing. Qopd teeth are found m those who have been nourished m the right way aijd who have given their teeth an adequate amount of exercise. If we do not. use our legs, . our leg muscles shrink and at last we are unable to walk. If we do not use our teeth, we produce hot only weak teeth but weak small jaws as well, which do not give enough space for a good set of lower teeth. Half the people one sees possess shrunken and almost useless jaws, with, overcrowded small and weak teeth. ':...' ■ •■■■;. . . „ ■ ■ We give our 'puppies bones and hard biscuits because it is good for their teeth, but we feed our unfortunate babies on pap which we would not give.

to puppies! In their despair the little ones try to give exercise to- their jaws by sucking ' their thumbs, spoons and pieces of wood, but they are checked I and punished; The best portion of the bread is the crust, and the harder that is the better" it is for the teeth; y jaws arid digestion. However, m many families the crusts are thrdwn away or soaked into pappy softness. The finest natural food consists of vegetables, salads .and fruit. Physically, men arid monkeys are woridei> fully alike. -The monkeys at the Zpo will scarcely say thank you if you offer them bread and cakes made of devitalised white fiour and colored with chemicals, but they -will become tremendously excited and delighted if you offer them some raw lettuce, onion, cucumber Jor some raw fruit. Experiments on animals have shown that fresh greenstuff is extraordinarily rich m vitamines. The milk of grassfed cows is infinitely richer than that of cows fed on hay,' grain, roots, etc. Deprivation of . fresh greenstuffs and fruit produces rickets arid' scurvy m humans.- ■ Experiments made on anirria'ls and men have shown that the precious vitamines contained m. greenstuff are destroyed by over-long cookipg, and particularly by cooking with soda. In many families greenstuff and fruit are never eaten raw, Everything is boiled, and many housewives imagine that greenstuff and fruit are improved by allowing it to simmer for as many hours as possible. The food. produced m this way maybe very palatable and soft, but the real goodness has disappeared. Soda is only fit for washing purposes. It should never be used m the preparation of food. Raw fruit "\- is infinitely better than cooked fruit. In the latter Sl large portion of t.he vitamines have been destroyed and devitamlnised sugar has been added. l^lost people who eat raw fruit throw away the skin arid the core, wasting once mbre^most valuable elements which ought to be eaten. Old- Fashioned Ideas. ' - The ' old-fashioned food chemists preached that everything should be well-cooked .and be made nutritious. They saw m the human body not. a iifing organism but a chemical appliance. Teachers of cooking uncritically followed the . chemists. Hence we find even m modern cookery books the assertion that salads have ho nutriment and we are advised to cook vegetables, porridge, etc., for hours with a view to make them more digestible; We destroy and waste the real goodness of our food largely owing to the disastrous activities of short-sighted food chemists and of equally shortsighted teachers of cooking who have blindly followed , the food professors, adopting their fallacies. We cannot wonder that civilised men Have poor hair, poor teeth, poor jaws, Weak bones and a bad digestion m view of the fact that they destroy or throw away the most precious portion of the food they eat.