The philosophy of eating . d Parts. Water, Gluten, AlbumeD, Starch, Sugar, j- or, < Gum, Fat, Fibre, Minerals, Water, ....... Nitrates, or muscle-makers, Carbonates, or heatand fat-producers, Phosphates, or foodfor brains, nerves,&c These principles are made up of the fourteen ele-ments which constitute the human system, and theproportion of the muscle-making, the heat-producing,and brain and nerve-feeding elements, are about theaverage proportions required, in moderate weather,with moderate exercise of physical and mental facul-ties
The philosophy of eating . d Parts. Water, Gluten, AlbumeD, Starch, Sugar, j- or, < Gum, Fat, Fibre, Minerals, Water, ....... Nitrates, or muscle-makers, Carbonates, or heatand fat-producers, Phosphates, or foodfor brains, nerves,&c These principles are made up of the fourteen ele-ments which constitute the human system, and theproportion of the muscle-making, the heat-producing,and brain and nerve-feeding elements, are about theaverage proportions required, in moderate weather,with moderate exercise of physical and mental facul-ties. But the distribution of these elements is notequal in all parts of the grain; and this, we shall see,is very important to be understood, as ignorance of thisfact has led to the sacrifice of the most important ele-ments. This we can understand by reference to thefollowing wood cuts : Fig. 1 being the natural size of MUSCLE-MAKING FOOD LOST FROM FLOUR. 25 wheat, and Fiof. 2 beinor magnified to three or four Fig. 5. 111.
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