Food of the Future

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 24, 13 August 1892, Page 4

Food of the Future

The Forum has an article on " What the cuming- man will eat." He says we pay for needlessly expensive kinds of food, that we consume too much of the fatty ingredients of food such as the fats of meat and butter, sugar and sweetmeats, and too little ot the protein or flesh-forming subStances like the lean of meat, fish, and the gluten of wheat ; we use needless quantities of food, the worst suflerers trom this evil being well-to-do people of sedentary occupations — brainworkers, as distinguished from handworkers ; jind finally we are guilty of very serious errors in our cooking. " The saddest part of the story" he says, "is that it is the poor man's money that is worst spent in the market and the poor man's food that is worst cooked and served at home." He quotes Sir Henry Thompson to the effect that more misciiiei in the form of actual disease, of impaired vigour, and of shortened life accrues from ruinous habits oi eating than from the habitual use of alcoholic drink, and he advocates University studies of food and dietaries in order to solve the question of how the coming man will be nourished.