The perfect way in diet : a treatise advocating a return to the natural and ancient food of our race / by Anna Kingsford.

  • Anna Kingsford
Date:
1887
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Credit: The perfect way in diet : a treatise advocating a return to the natural and ancient food of our race / by Anna Kingsford. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and agriculturists ; a measure which would not only lead to increase in the value of the wastes so utilised, but would conduce also in no small degree to sanitary improvement, by draining off stagnant pools, appropriating to purposes of manure innumerable rubbish heaps, rendering the general atmosphere purer, and ridding the country of some of its worst nuisances. We have seen, thus briefly, in what manner the eco- nomical question affects the country and the nation. Let us now inquire how it affects the Individual. According to Dr. Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., C.B., who for several years directed a series of official investigations on the subject of military rations in England, France, Prussia, and Austria, an adult man in good health requires daily four ounces of proteinaceous substances, and at least ten and a half ounces daily of dynamic substances (hydro- carbons and carbo-hydrates). In order to obtain this proportion of proteinaceous matter it would be necessary to consume weekly— Price (about) s. cL. 147 ounces of butcher’s meat . . . 6 1 or 93 ,, cheese • 3 0 or 341 ,, ordinary white bread. . 2 8 or 175 ,, oatmeal . . 1 4 or 127 ,, dried peas . 1 2 In order to obtain the necessary proportion of dyna- mic or caloric-forming substance, it would be necessary to consume weekly— Price (about) s. d. 416 ounces of butcher’s meat . . . 17 4 or 224 ,, cheese . . . .70 or 298 ,, ordinary bread . . .23 or 616 ,, potatoes . . . .29 or 221 ,, dried peas . . . 1 10 or 183 ,, oatmeal . . . .10
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