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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 11.

IS OATMEAL HEALTHFUL?

SCOTLAND is the home of oatmeal, and the Scotch are a race of pronounced vigor, strength, and general health.

This would seem to answer the query, but it does not. Any article of diet, however healthful of itself, may be so prepared as to be unfit for food. So it is with oatmeal. Do not believe any pretension of manufacturers, who claim to have a preparation of oats requiring only “five minutes’ cooking.” You not only will not get any value from the oats, but

will ruin your stomach in the endeavor to digest them. The Scotch cook oatmeal until it may be drunk as a gruel. That is the secret of oatmeal. Get the coarse oatmeal, the coarser the better, and then cook it three hours in a double boiler. Cook until it is like custard. It then will make good muscle and blood, and will represent more nutriment than the ordinary white, wheat flour.—The Clinic.