Something about Food.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1796, 17 February 1886, Page 3

Something about Food.

The following is from Demorests's Magazine ; —Some physicians say that the value I oils as fond are not as wed understood by he moderns as by the ancients. Olive oh, mutton fat, and other o'engiuous substances, ( rmed a large part of the dietary of the uieeks. R mans, and other ancient nations Chemically, the constitution of oil is the same as sugar ; they are both hydrocarbons, and in 'he animal economy peform the same functions. The ancients not only swallowed oil. but rubbed it on the body after bathing 1 his practice, which waa called *■ inunction,' has been revived recently with happy result*-. Physicians even go so far as to introduce oil into the svstera by hypodermic injection., 1 hat is. by perfoaatione in the skin. Many stomachs reject oil, hut the system will often dumb it when rubbed on the body. 0 ejected under the skin by tbs hypodermic syringe. The good effects of cod liver oil foconsumptives and delicate persona haa long been recognised. Diabetics who cannot tako sugar, find oil very strengthening, because nruhahly of the fact that it supolies the sam. chemical constituents to the system that sugar does. Another point with regard to diet ha been brought out at a recent conference n physicians in New York. Delicate peison with weak stomachs will sometimes find it to th-ir advantage to eat but little at a tioat hut to take fool often. Six and even sove. meals a day ore not too much if the food i well chosen and the meal is not too hearty.