Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1904
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    the microbe has been accomplished the excess of food lias necessarily to be considerably reduced, since disease would be produced in other direc- tions by the accumulation of the waste products of such excessive combustion. It follows (as an advantage) from all my previous arguments that these waste products will be less in quantity and less injurious in quality if the necessary albumens have been obtained from a uric-acid-free source. Alcohol, Tobacco and other Stimulants. We have already seen that stimulants such as acids do not produce force, they merely alter its distribution in time. When an acid causes feelings of well-being and increased excretion of urea, it merely brings about the metabolism of a certain amount of albumen which was there before and independent of it; it merely alters the time rela- tion of the metabolism of this albumen, converting it quickly into available force and urea in one hour, while without the stimulant the same albu- men might have been slowly converted into force and urea during three or four hours. But after the force has been produced and urea excreted, the body is poorer in albumens than it would have been at the same hour if no stimulant had been taken; and the urea curve falls more quickly, as we have seen in chapter i., fig. 5, than if no stimulation had taken place.