Diet and foodBlakiston's Son, 1902 - 126 oldal |
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acid fruits albu albumen values alcohol alkali amount of force animal flesh appetite better biscuits blood of uric body weight bread stuffs Bright's disease cause cereal cereal foods clear the blood condition contain digestion diseases dyspepsia eating effect excess of uric excretion of urea exercise fall of urea flatulent flesh eaters force and urea force production fresh Frugivore gluten gout grains of albumen grains of urea grains per hour high blood pressure hour ending increase less meal meat eater milk and cheese milk or cheese nutrition nuts oatmeal obtained physiological pint of milk Plasmon poisons porridge potatoes power of endurance Protene puddings quantity of albumens reserves result rheumatism rise of acidity rise of urea sedentary stimulant strength and power substances suffer sufficient albumen sugar supply of albumens swallowed Table taken tion tissues uric acid free urine vegetarians waste products xanthins
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40. oldal - ... no subsequent depression, and so probably never feels the want of any alcohol at all. Hence it comes about that those who took alcohol on a flesh diet generally very soon give it up when they give up flesh, and smoke also very little, having no craving for any stimulant...
121. oldal - Yes, to me also was given, if not Victory, yet the consciousness of Battle, and the resolve to persevere therein while life or faculty is left. To me also, entangled in the enchanted forests, demon-peopled, doleful of sight and of sound, it was given, after weariest wanderings, to work out my way into the higher sunlit slopes — of that Mountain which has no summit, or whose summit is in Heaven only!
39. oldal - Stimulation is not strength, but force rendered a little more quickly available; and it is invariably followed by an exactly corresponding amount of depression when the force is used up and must be replaced.
99. oldal - All the vegetarians reached the goal, it is said in " splendid condition " — the first covering the distance in fourteen and a quarter hours. An hour after the last vegetarian came in, the first meateater appeared, and he was
81. oldal - ... years old, whose arteries were already considerably indurated. The naval surgeon, Treille, has seen numerous cases of atheromatous degeneration in Bombay and Calcutta, where many people live exclusively on rice.
24. oldal - As animal flesh of all kinds contains either uric acid or substances equivalent to it. such as xanthins, these sources of albumen must be ruled out, for the blood cannot be kept properly free from this substance, while it is being continually introduced with every mouthful swallowed. "A pound of beefsteak contains 14 grains of uric acid. The amount produced daily and eliminated by a person living on a non-flesh diet is a little more than 3 grains, or less than one-fourth the amount that a person...
2. oldal - And even now many men are attempting to carry the diet of youth on into middle life and age, or the diet that was quite correct for an active outdoor life into a life of sedentary office work in a town ; or if they fall into neither of these errors they are generally completely ignorant with regard to the relative value and importance of foods, so that they either starve...
37. oldal - ... and Cellulose, Mineral Matters in the Potash, Phosphates and water ; they are deficient in fat. It is gradually being recognized that vegetable foods, taken in proper proportion with cream, butter, cheese, eggs and milk, form a healthy, nourishing diet; and, according to Dr Haig in Diet and Food, " The Vegetarians of this country are pretty decidedly superior in endurance to those who feed on animal tissues.
11. oldal - It is also possible, by introducing more food than can be digested, to overpower digestion so that nothing is digested and absorbed, and starvation results, a fact which is brought to the front in the most interesting manner in the writings of Dr. Dewey (" The True Science of Living," by EH Dewey, MD, Norwich, Conn.).
102. oldal - Japan, made some experiments on vegetarian natives, and, after measuring and recording some of their feats of endurance, he gave some of them meat, which they took eagerly, and regarded as a great luxury, because it was used by the