Pood for Thinkers and Workers.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 103, 31 October 1871, Page 2

Pood for Thinkers and Workers.

! Those who expect to think should not eat I much food which simply pr )duces warmth i and fat, such as ham, fat pork, white bread, | butter, rice, tapioca, and starch. These coni tain very little phosphatic food, being chiefly | carbonaceous. Professor Agassiz says : i Fish enters largely into the requisition of the I human system, especially after intellectual i fatigue. There is no other article of food that j supplies the waste of the head so thoroughly las fish diet. Fish contains phosphorus to a I large extent, n chemical element which the .brain requires for growth and life. Ho j would not say that the exclusive use of fish l would make a blockhead a wise man, but that the brain would not be wanting in one of its essentsal elements." Man cannot, however, live on fish alone, because most fish are not fat enough to furnish the heatproducing element in sufficient quantity. The amount of phosphatic or brain-support-ing food contined in the flesh of animals is in proportion to the activity of the animal; those of great activity, such as the canary bird, for instance, secure food which feeds the brain, nerves, and muscle, but does not produce fat. The flesh of the trout, the pickerel, or salmon impart more mental and physical vigor to the eater than the flesh of comparatively dormant fish, like the eel and j flounder. The flesh of wild animals, such as ; the bison or deer or boar, promotes activity iin the eater, more than the stall-fed ox, , sheep, or hog. Wild game generally is con- | sidered better food, especially for the con- \ valescent, than the fattened domestic turkey |or goose. Barley, oats, and wheat ground ! without bolting, furnish food for the brain ; j but lawyer.?, minister, and students eat the j white superfine, or sifted wheat bread, and [go to sleep. That which would fatten a pig, ! and give him no power to exercise or to ] think, is eaten by the learned and refined of : the human race, who look in pity upon the poor peasant following the plough, because j lie is obliged to eat his brown loaf, which j brown loaf and cheap fish and wild game conj tain the incitement to brain work, in which | poems, orations, and art are conceived and ; nursed. The proper food for labouring men | —we mean those who have to exercise mus- | cular strength chiefly—should be that which I contains the greatest amount of nitrogen. j Among these articles barley and cheese stand ■ high; The red flesh of the ox or sheep and i unsifted bread arc the leading articles. | Men who train prize fighters seem to undorI stand much better than others how to build lup physical strength and endurance. When | their bit tie or race is ended, thoy lay aside j their unsifted bread and fruit, their lean . beef and mutton, and fall into their old j habits of liquor-drinking and of eating starchi bearing articles, such as rice, fine bread, j pudding, &c., and very soon become as fat and j lazy as these carbonaceous articles can make i them. — Phrcnohginal Journal.