Starving America (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Starving America During his seventeenth and eighteenth years, the writer suffered a severe illness which resisted treatment for eighteen months. This experience resulted in a keen interest in the subject of food. After his recovery, brought abort finally by dietetic treatment, he was thrown into daily association for two years with Professor James R. Campbell, then an instructor in chemistry at Pittsburg College. His room in the college adjoined Professor Campbell´s room, and they spent much time together in the discussion of chemical theories, and their experimental proofs. He conceived a profound veneration for the mysteries of organic life, and began to look upon food as the embodiment of all the forces, which, when properly co-related and released, are responsible for the continuation of life. As an amateur, he began to study biochemistry, and the chemistry of foods, but could find nothing authoritative on the subject. Dietitians were dividing food into four groups: Carbohydrates, proteins, fats and ash. The division of ash was always exasperatingly ignored, and apparently had little if any meaning for the dietitian, and was not considered by him as significant or important. In the meantime, the writer learned that a diet of pure carbohydrates, pure proteins and pure fat, would not support life, and the subject of ash grew more formidable and more fascinating. Physicians and chemists everywhere, admitted that personally they knew nothing about ash in relalationship to food, and did not know where to go to get such information. Years of wrestling with the word "ash" resulted in little that could be depended upon until an experiment during a very critical period in the writer´s life began to throw a feeble light upon the subject. During this period, he was earning his livelihood as an advertising man, though the study of biochemistry has been of absorbing interest to him at all times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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