Uncooked foods & how to use them : a treatise on how to get the highest form of animal energy from food, with recipes for preparation, healthful combinations and menus / by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Christian.

  • Christian, Eugene, 1860-1930.
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: Uncooked foods & how to use them : a treatise on how to get the highest form of animal energy from food, with recipes for preparation, healthful combinations and menus / by Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Christian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE FUNCTION OF FOODS. THE true function of food is to supply ma- terial for growth, and for new tissue, to replace that worn out by effort. Things which do not serve these two purposes cannot be consistently classed as foods. .On the contrary, they are exactly the opposite; for when they are taken into the body, they must be excreted at the expense of energy. These facts should be observed in the preparation of all ma- terials used as food. What we call life is but the ever-changing ex- pression of organic matter. Just how it is created, how from the protoplasm or the tiniest molecule there comes the well-organized being—what strange change takes place when two atoms called germs are blended, to create a living thing, what gives it form, color and intelligence—all these things are as deeply buried in the realm of the unknown as they were a million years ago. All we know is that all life must comply with