The Science Of Keeping Young E-Book

ALFRED W. McCANN

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

CONTENTS PREFACE ONE: YOUTH AND THE SALTS OF THE EARTH I AGE POSTPONED II NEGLECTED FOOD CALCIUM III RESISTANCE TO DISEASE IV SAPPING TISSUE-TONE V 8,000,000 TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN VI FOUR THOUSAND LABORERS VII KAISER'S SAILORS AGAIN VIII — HITE-WONDER-LOAF IX WE MUST HAVE IRON X DENATURED MILK AND EGGS XI PRECARIOUS VITAMINES XII YEAST EAST CRAVES MINERAL FOOD XIII SEEK NO IRON IN MILK XIV MYSTERY OF POTASSIUM XV PUZZLES THAT BAFFLE SCIENCE TWO: TISSUE-TONE AND FOOD MINERALS XVI MYSTERY OF SODIUM XVII DON'T WASTE PHOSPHORUS XVIII TYPICAL PHOSPHORUS MEALS XIX ADENOID FACES XX ARMY BREAD DEPRAVED XXI PREPARING FOR TUBERCULOSIS XXII MYSTERY OF "SPECIAL SUBSTANCES" XXIII WHAT WOMEN NEED XXIV "CERTIFIED"-AN EMPTY TERM XXV MYSTERY OF MANGANESE XXVI MAGNESIUM THROWN OUT XXVII IODINE BENEVOLENT POISON XXVIII MYSTERY OF FLUORIN XXIX CHLORINE ESSENTIAL TO LIFE XXX WILD ANIMALS NEVER BALD THREE: SULPHUR AND COPPER ENEMIES OF YOUTH XXXI SULPHUR-BLESSING AND CURSE XXXII SCANDAL OF SULPHUR BLEACH XXXIII PROTECTED BY WEAKLINGS XXXIV POISONED BY COPPER KETTLES XXXV WARNED ARNED IN VAIN FOUR: MISCHIEVOUS COOKERY NONSENSE XXXVI RAW FOOD SUPERSTITIONS XXXVII WHEN HEN HEAT IS NECESSARY FIVE: AN ENTIRE NATION REMADE IN ONE YEAR XXXVIII DENMARK IN THE BLOCKADE XXXIX CHALLENGE OF DR. HINDHEDE XL MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DISEASE XLI REMOVING CAUSE OF DEATH XLII GARDEN SETTLEMENT OF EDEN XLIII FAVORITE FOODS NOT BANISHED SIX : MEN OF IRON AND THE FOOD FOLLIES THAT LAY THEM LOW XLIV NURMI, RITOLA, STENROOS XLV RUTH, DEMPSEY, AND FINNS XLVI LOST—A CHAMPIONSHIP XLVII DETHRONED BY HIS OWN POISON XLVIII BOTHNER'S TISSUE-TONE XLIX POUND OF DRIED PRUNES L THE OATS OF MORVICH LI WHITE BREAD IN A PIGGERY LII THE RICE SUPERSTITION LIII GREEN VEGETABLES AND NURSING LIV FOODS NEEDED BY THE SOUTH SEVEN: THE MYSTERY OF VITAMINS AND AMINO ACIDS LV HAMLET SIMPLIFIES THE MYSTERY LVI VITAMINS OR AMINO ACIDS? LVII CAN'T ANSWER SHERWIN EIGHT: WHEN THE "WHITE" LOAF WAS NOT WHITE LVIII A HIDDEN PHASE OF BREAD HISTORY LIX How OLD IS "WHITE" BREAD? LX ALL "WHITE" BREAD WAS YELLOW LXI THE SCANDAL OF BLEACHED FLOUR LXII SCOTLAND VS. NEW YORK CITY LXIII SPENDING MILLIONS AND NICKELS LXIV NOT A PENNY FOR TRUTH LXV "INDIGESTIBLE" DELICACIES LXVI BRAN AND THE GLANDS LXVII WE MUST EAT CELLULOSE LXVIII No BREAD STANDARDS LXIX EASY TO SUPPORT BILLIONS LXX EXPERIMENT IN RESTAURANT NINE: SEA-FOOD AND BUTTER LXXI FISH AND OYSTERS LXXII PASTEURIZED BUTTER TEN: CHILDBIRTH, RATS, WHOLE WHEAT AND DOCTORS LXXIII UNEVENTFUL CHILDBIRTH LXXIV RATS AND DOCTORS LXXV DOCTORS AND PROPAGANDA LXXVI FOOD QUACKERY AND "SCIENCE" ELEVEN : THE GOOD AND BAD IN CANNED GOODS LXXVII CANNED FOODS TWELVE: NEWLY-DISCOVERED SUGAR WONDERS LXXVIII BROWN SUGAR LXXIX WHITE SUGAR LXXX BANISHING THE SUGAR FEAR THIRTEEN: "LIME STARVATION" AND TUBERCULOSIS LXXXI CURING TUBERCULOSIS FOURTEEN: THE ROMANCE OF SINAPIS LXXXII THE LITTLE MUSTARD SEED

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

ONE: YOUTH AND THE SALTS OF THE EARTH

I AGE POSTPONED

II NEGLECTED FOOD CALCIUM

III RESISTANCE TO DISEASE

IV SAPPING TISSUE-TONE

V 8,000,000 TUBERCULOUS CHILDREN

VI FOUR THOUSAND LABORERS

VII KAISER'S SAILORS AGAIN

VIII — HITE-WONDER-LOAF

IX WE MUST HAVE IRON

X DENATURED MILK AND EGGS

XI PRECARIOUS VITAMINES

XII YEAST EAST CRAVES MINERAL FOOD

XIII SEEK NO IRON IN MILK

XIV MYSTERY OF POTASSIUM

XV PUZZLES THAT BAFFLE SCIENCE

TWO: TISSUE-TONE AND FOOD MINERALS

XVI MYSTERY OF SODIUM

XVII DON'T WASTE PHOSPHORUS

XVIII TYPICAL PHOSPHORUS MEALS

XIX ADENOID FACES

XX ARMY BREAD DEPRAVED

XXI PREPARING FOR TUBERCULOSIS

XXII MYSTERY OF "SPECIAL SUBSTANCES"

XXIII WHAT WOMEN NEED

XXIV "CERTIFIED"-AN EMPTY TERM

XXV MYSTERY OF MANGANESE

XXVI MAGNESIUM THROWN OUT

XXVII IODINE BENEVOLENT POISON

XXVIII MYSTERY OF FLUORIN

XXIX CHLORINE ESSENTIAL TO LIFE

XXX WILD ANIMALS NEVER BALD

THREE: SULPHUR AND COPPER ENEMIES OF YOUTH

XXXI SULPHUR-BLESSING AND CURSE

XXXII SCANDAL OF SULPHUR BLEACH

XXXIII PROTECTED BY WEAKLINGS

XXXIV POISONED BY COPPER KETTLES

XXXV WARNED ARNED IN VAIN

FOUR: MISCHIEVOUS COOKERY NONSENSE

XXXVI RAW FOOD SUPERSTITIONS

XXXVII WHEN HEN HEAT IS NECESSARY

FIVE: AN ENTIRE NATION REMADE IN ONE YEAR

XXXVIII DENMARK IN THE BLOCKADE

XXXIX CHALLENGE OF DR. HINDHEDE

XL MOST COMMON CAUSE OF DISEASE

XLI REMOVING CAUSE OF DEATH

XLII GARDEN SETTLEMENT OF EDEN

XLIII FAVORITE FOODS NOT BANISHED

SIX : MEN OF IRON AND THE FOOD FOLLIES THAT LAY THEM LOW

XLIV NURMI, RITOLA, STENROOS

XLV RUTH, DEMPSEY, AND FINNS

XLVI LOST—A CHAMPIONSHIP

XLVII DETHRONED BY HIS OWN POISON

XLVIII BOTHNER'S TISSUE-TONE

XLIX POUND OF DRIED PRUNES

L THE OATS OF MORVICH

LI WHITE BREAD IN A PIGGERY

LII THE RICE SUPERSTITION

LIII GREEN VEGETABLES AND NURSING

LIV FOODS NEEDED BY THE SOUTH

SEVEN: THE MYSTERY OF VITAMINS AND AMINO ACIDS

LV HAMLET SIMPLIFIES THE MYSTERY

LVI VITAMINS OR AMINO ACIDS?

LVII CAN'T ANSWER SHERWIN

EIGHT: WHEN THE "WHITE" LOAF WAS NOT WHITE

LVIII A HIDDEN PHASE OF BREAD HISTORY

LIX How OLD IS "WHITE" BREAD?

LX ALL "WHITE" BREAD WAS YELLOW

LXI THE SCANDAL OF BLEACHED FLOUR

LXII SCOTLAND VS. NEW YORK CITY

LXIII SPENDING MILLIONS AND NICKELS

LXIV NOT A PENNY FOR TRUTH

LXV "INDIGESTIBLE" DELICACIES

LXVI BRAN AND THE GLANDS

LXVII WE MUST EAT CELLULOSE

LXVIII No BREAD STANDARDS

LXIX EASY TO SUPPORT BILLIONS

LXX EXPERIMENT IN RESTAURANT

NINE: SEA-FOOD AND BUTTER

LXXI FISH AND OYSTERS

LXXII PASTEURIZED BUTTER

TEN: CHILDBIRTH, RATS, WHOLE WHEAT AND DOCTORS

LXXIII UNEVENTFUL CHILDBIRTH

LXXIV RATS AND DOCTORS

LXXV DOCTORS AND PROPAGANDA

LXXVI FOOD QUACKERY AND "SCIENCE"

ELEVEN : THE GOOD AND BAD IN CANNED GOODS

LXXVII CANNED FOODS

TWELVE: NEWLY-DISCOVERED SUGAR WONDERS

LXXVIII BROWN SUGAR

LXXIX WHITE SUGAR

LXXX BANISHING THE SUGAR FEAR

THIRTEEN: "LIME STARVATION" AND TUBERCULOSIS

LXXXI CURING TUBERCULOSIS

FOURTEEN: THE ROMANCE OF SINAPIS

LXXXII THE LITTLE MUSTARD SEED

The Science Of Keeping Young

ALFRED W. McCANN

AUTHOR OF "THE SCIENCE OF EATING," "STARVING AMIERICA," "GOD OR GORILLA,

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY

1st digital edition 2017 by David De Angelis

TO THE LARGER AND HAPPIER LIFE THAT ACCOMPANIES YOUTH PROLONGED

PREFACE

Beautiful, clear complexions and trim, lithe figures are traceable solely and alone to food. Normal digestion, normal assimilation and normal elimination mean firm flesh as distinguished from soft, flabby, water-logged fat. Without tissue-tone, wholly dependent on food, beauty must be imitated with the aid of art applied from the outside.

If it be true that youth is the only thing in the world that casts no shadows, it is also true that the appearance of shadows indicates the loss of youth. The charm of youth cannot be engendered through the patent medicine route, but it can be prolonged and, even when lost, it can be in large measure restored by regenerating tissue-tone.

Good health isn't an accidental glory doled out to a chosen few. Most people can have it although, when starting off in its pursuit, they find themselves equipped with body mechanism far from perfect. Tissue-tone means in addition to the pink flush of life a certain definite vitality, a certain specific resistance to disease.

Describing rheumatism as the new "White Scourge," J. M. Roberts, a delegate to the National Conference of Friendly Insurance Societies, which met October, 1925, at Brighton, England, revealed that more than 3,000,000 working weeks are lost in England alone every year through rheumatic diseases, which have displaced tuberculosis as the most pressing problem in dealing with the health of the industrial population in England.

"Rheumatism and rheumatic diseases" is a loose phrase, but it adequately describes the inevitable results of uncontrolled food follies.

When the bright light dies in your eyes, when you begin to fear that those once sparkling orbs will soon be framed in puffy, pouchy, shadowy circles, when you note with anxiety the little tired crow's feet touching your face with the mark of years, you blankly confront the plain fact that youth is slipping. That it slips all too soon for most of us is unhappily our own fault.

The man who works with his hands becomes a slave to his own vigor. His self-confidence literally compels him to believe that while others may be yielding to the strain he can go on indefinitely ignoring all such nonsense as the effect of this or that food upon his stamina.

The brain-worker who is harnessed to a desk and whose continued mental strain, combined with a lack of exercise and food control sweeps him into the aging grip of constipation, could offset the ravages of this baneful infirmity if he were to devote one-tenth of the thought to his body that he gives to his success.

The middle-aged executive burdened by overweight intelligently directs the forces responsive to him but fails to heed the demands of his own body for attention.

The young girl, all too lovely by contrast with what she too soon will lose, gives no thought to the defense of her ephemeral beauty. She doesn't think of the dull, sallow, drab complexion on the way. There are plenty of cosmetics in the shops and besides her own individual share of the world's sum total of beauty is a thing permanent and enduring. Beauty may be only skin-deep, but health, without which beauty ceases to allure, is as deep as the body's mid-most core. When beauty vanishes from the surface it means that something far more precious has been lost within.

The youngish woman who could be much younger than she is, and who confesses the truth by attempting to disguise it artificially, might so easily and so joyously retain what she so vainly envies when she sees it exhibited by others still illuminated by the halo of youth.

The woman of forty-five who hates fat and whose very hatred seems to conspire with nature to pile it all the more upon her, notes that the extra burden which she carries so distastefully and ungracefully must be kept alive by her own heart. More work for that already overworked organ ! More youth squandered!

The expectant mother to whom motherhood should be a tonic and to whom, if Nature is given but half a chance, it always is a tonic, enters the ordeal before her precisely as soldiers enter battle unequipped with arms. Surely we would hold somebody in the War Department responsible for sending our young men into action without training, preparation or proper understanding of their task. But what about the mothers of the race—nursing mothers who give of their own bodies that their offspring may live and grow and have a chance against their future struggle with the world? Who is responsible for letting them drift into the infirmities in which so many of them tragically flounder?

Underlying every crisis of animal life is food—either for good or evil. We can't pour health from a bottle. We can't retain youth when we ignorantly spend it. Tissue-tone has never emerged from a pill box and never will. But tissue-tone can be had. Flabbiness can be converted into firmness. The forty-inch waist can be reduced without sacrifice or pain. Resistance to disease can be developed. Age can be held off for years. Life can be made worth living even for the victims of the wheel-chair.

The overfed but undernourished, the addicts of unnatural and refined foods, the prospective subjects of mental and physical handicaps can so change the course of their breaking or partly broken existence that their own friends and neighbors will scarcely recognize them.

In the achievement of this consummation devoutly to be wished they need resort to no occult mysteries or confine themselves to a harsh and forbidding routine of bitter self-denial.

To help all who have the disposition to respond "The Science of Keeping Young" has been written. Much of it doubtless could have been omitted, but those who are destined to be benefited by it will condone the author's whim in setting down what he wanted to merely because he wanted to. Those who have read "The Science of Eating" may ask why the Kronprinz Wilhelm and the Madeira-Mamore Poison Squads have been again referred to. The answer is simple. Nothing exact13 like these two human experiences has ever been recorded and they blend so harmoniously with the author's philosophy of nutrition and have themselves constituted such graphic forecasts of what was to occur in the world between the years 1916 and 1925 that to have left them out would have been analogous to the erection of a building without a door because the builder, having used the same kind of door in an earlier structure, therefore had no further use for doors of any kind.

One last word. Even if you have been rejected for life insurance read what follows and obey the impulse to act upon it. If you do, it may not be long before one of the big companies will be glad to write you a policy.

ONE: YOUTH AND THE SALTS OF THE EARTH

- § I-AGE POSTPONED

The erroneous, pernicious, but widespread conviction that "time" makes us old, and that age is automatically fixed by the number of years behind us, constitutes a deadly assault upon the human family.

"Time" does not make us old. Time has nothing to do with age. Time is an hour-glass—a measuring device—not a force. Time can influence disease or health no more than a yardstick can influence the speed of a race horse—no more than a stopwatch could control the flight of Paavo Nurmi. Time had nothing to do with the ability of the Helsingfors phantom to run faster than mortal man ever ran before.

Age is the result of changes brought about in our own tissues through our own habits of life. Within the limits of variation we can hasten those changes or check them as we will.

The expression "Time dealt lightly with Cornaro" is figurative and misleading. In itself it contains the refutation of the very idea it proposes. Cornaro was "old" at forty yet "very young" at a hundred. Not "time" but the man himself controlled the rapidity of the tissue changes that were hurrying him to the grave before he discovered the secret of youth. The most famous centenarian of history not only succeeded in slowing-up the mechanism of death, but actually reversed its wheels and turned the course of his own Life backward.

The physiological laws controlling this phenomenon are the same today as they were yesterday, and as they will be tomorrow. Nature is not capricious. That she abhors freaks is demonstrated by the rarity with which she produces them.

The influence of "time" on flesh is mythical. Yet under the obsession engendered by this cruel superstition men and women adopt a fatalistic attitude toward what they call time. They adjust themselves to its "inevitable ravages" through heroic resignation or supine indifference to what they foolishly believe cannot be helped. Hence they speed up the tissue changes that result in feebleness and hurry all the faster the onslaught of decay, disease and death.

Appalling are the consequences of accepting without challenge the poisonous suggestion that because man's hair is gray at the temples his liver, heart and arteries are correspondingly gray, and time is graying him all over. This is false. Of course man can't restore the color of his hair or put it back when he has lost it, or replace the teeth with which Nature blessed him during the dentition period of his growth.

But he can, even at forty-five, throw off the unnatural load under which he compels Nature prematurely to groan. He can remove the handicap and start all over.

Nature cannot resurrect the suicide, and there is a final step beyond which any thought of recovery comes too late.

But for the vast majority—for the millions who are living desperately, who are aging before their time, and who do not realize the significance of the fact that some are old at thirty while others are young at sixty—there is within reach an overwhelming abundance of all the factors needed to keep at a distance age and all that age implies.

As a rule the human family makes no conscious effort to invoke the aid of these enemies of decay, but, on the contrary, goes out of its way to ignore their existence and reject their help.

And they are so simple, so eager to serve, so truly wonderful in their operations, so easy to comprehend, that man's unfamiliarity with their story—the story of the salts of the earth must ever remain an enigma too baffling to solve, too mysterious to explain.

These squandered and neglected riches must be restored to the human race. To the end that the work of restoration may begin for the individual now and at once, even though the masses move tardily, sluggishly, wilfully along the easy way leading to preventable illness and untimely death, the author devotes this task.

What "The Science of Eating" began, this work, he fondly hopes, will finish. The demonstrations assembled by it are so picturesque, so graphic, and, by their very nature, so eloquent that he is confident his treatment of them, however clumsy and unskilful, has encountered little risk of blurring their clarity or marring their beauty. Through a plate of smoked glass one may still see the sun.

Merely to exhibit these demonstrations so that they may disclose their own wonders in their own way, is to present specific and conclusive evidence against the conspiracy of ignorance, superstition and habit responsible for obscuring the truth and must eventually force the gates now holding back inexhaustible floods of vitality, releasing their torrents upon this overfed but undernourished and devitalized world.

Just how the salts of the earth are waiting to bring back to humanity the despised and rejected treasures of health, endurance, stamina, resistance to disease, normal growth to the young and happy maternity to the prospective mother, is the heart of the information which we have labored to set forth in the belief that it is the secret for which our women and children hunger.

Experimental animals, of which the writer has five hundred, including an offshoot representing the fifteenth generation, under observation in his laboratories, confirm in detail the promise—one might even say the prophecy—that the seeming miracles which have showered benedictions upon them, can be duplicated, multiplied and perpetuated for the benefit of mankind precisely as they have been made manifest among the furry creatures that have given up their lives to the principles here expounded.