. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I0I4 BETTER FRUIT Page 23 parts to the face a rollicking, robust appearance. Fruit contains lime in such a soluble condition that the bones easily take it up and are fed by it. Professor Pick- erill shows how in this form it iiene- trates and feeds the enamel of the teeth, which is the hardest part of all our bones. I live in a large fruit-growing district, where the children eat much fruit, and I have never seen any rick- etts or other indication of soft bones since I came here. If a horse is fed on, say, fine oatmeal or fine flour alone it will soon die of cons
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. I0I4 BETTER FRUIT Page 23 parts to the face a rollicking, robust appearance. Fruit contains lime in such a soluble condition that the bones easily take it up and are fed by it. Professor Pick- erill shows how in this form it iiene- trates and feeds the enamel of the teeth, which is the hardest part of all our bones. I live in a large fruit-growing district, where the children eat much fruit, and I have never seen any rick- etts or other indication of soft bones since I came here. If a horse is fed on, say, fine oatmeal or fine flour alone it will soon die of constipation, but if the straw on which the grain grew is cut into chalf and fed with the flour or meal its digestion and bowels will act perfectly. Modern habits of feeding us are wrong in this way: the bowels of the horse need the chaff to induce them to keep up their action, and our bowels require some such stinudant. Dr. Abramowski tells us that when he lived on fruit he had "two or three easy motions a ; And I have every reason for gratitutle to fruit, for I have not taken a dose of aperient medicine for forty years, but I get some trouble if I do not get two or three pears or apples a day, or some other fruit, but pears are the most lax- ative. Professor Mc.\lpine has shown that the best part of an apple or pear is the skin, and if washed or carefully wiped it certainly is better for consli- Ijation to eat skin and all. The pulp of roast apple is far better for an in- fant than castor oil, and if the public spent on fruit half what it now spends on nauseous petroleum, many faces would wear a more cheerful aspect. As a medical oihcer of health over a large fruit-growing district in Tas- mania, I have for years been able to show a much lower mortality than in districts where fruit is not grown; in- deed, our mortality in Glenorchy of four in 1011, five in 1912 and six in in the thousand is, so far as I have heard, the lowest recorded. Dried Fruits Reasonable
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