Diet in Health and Disease

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St. Winfred's Sanitorium, 1913 - Diet in disease - 16 pages
 

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Page 3 - Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Page 13 - I'm so plump the reason I tell — Who leads a good life is sure to live well. What baron or squire, Or knight of the shire, Lives half so well as a holy friar...
Page 16 - Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple : for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.
Page 3 - The flower of the harem, Rose-in-Bloom, Orders a feast in his favorite room— Glittering squares of colored ice, Sweetened with syrop, tinctured with spice, Creams, and cordials, and sugared dates, Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes, and citrons, and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes...
Page 3 - Syrian apples, Othmanee quinces, Limes, and citrons, and apricots, And wines that are known to Eastern princes ; And Nubian slaves, with smoking pots Of spiced meats and costliest fish And all that the curious palate could wish, Pass in and out of the cedarn doors...
Page 11 - Remove from fire (if much boiled it will suffer — You'll find that India-rubber isn't tougher) ; After 'tis off add three fresh eggs, well beaten, Stir once more, and it's ready to be eaten. Fruit of the wave ! Oh, dainty and delicious ! Food for the gods ! Ambrosia for Apicius ! Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus Or titillate the palate of Silenus!
Page 10 - Gave thee : all sorts are here that all the earth yields, Variety without end; but of the tree, Which, tasted, works knowledge of good and evil, Thou mayst not ; in the day thou eat'st, thou diest : Death is the penalty imposed; beware, And govern well thy appetite ; lest sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, death.
Page 4 - To this we have added since, the love of money, The only sort of pleasure which requites. Youth fades, and leaves our days no longer sunny; We tire of mistresses and parasites ; But oh, ambrosial cash!
Page 5 - This new factor in disease (Excess of Magnesia or Magnesium Infiltration) is in reality a question in dietetics and its presence as well as its persistence is susceptible of proof by the ordinary methods familiar to physiologic chemists. In fact, it has to deal almost exclusively with the deviations incident to the chemistry of digestion. Thus, it trenches upon human welfare, touching all points of the...
Page 4 - White of egg, yolk of egg. Caseinogen Milk . Serum albumin, fibrin Blood contained in meat. Gliadin and glutinin Grain of wheat and some other cereals. Vegetable albumin Soft-growing vegetables. Legumin Peas, beans, lentils, etc. 2. FATS. Animal fats In adipose tissue of animals. Vegetable oils In seeds, grains, nuts, fruits, and other vegetable tissues. 3. CARBOHYDRATES. Dextrose or grape-sugar \ , , . Levulose or fruit-sugar ) In frults

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