A CENTURY CLUB | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 10, 1900

A CENTURY CLUB.

A CLUB has been organized in New York City every member of which has pledged himself to do the best he can to live one hundred years. Dr. Wiley, of the Agricultural Department of Washington, D. C., is the president of the club. Such a club ought to be organized in every city, for centenarians are getting scarce. The cause is without doubt the excessive use of meats and the neglect of cereals. It has long been known that vegetarians are longer lived than are meat eaters. Dogs are old and rheumatic at ten, and die at fourteen, whereas the donkey is still frisky at forty, and easily lives to half a century. The nut-eating Indians of Southern California still live to the age of 130 years and more. Meat shortens life by hardening the arteries, which produces old age prematurely and death from apoplexy through rupture of the brittle arteries. This is the natural result of the accumulation of uric acid in the body. Meat contains uric acid in great quantities. The general disuse of cereals is due to the increasing prevalence of amylaceous dyspepsia, or starch indigestion, which is the natural result of the use of half-cooked cereal foods. Starch must be dextrinized by dry cooking at a temperature of 300° to render it readily digestible. Half-cooked starch causes sour stomach, flatulence, bloating, colic, anemia, headache, weakness, neurasthenia, intestinal catarrh, and numerous other evils.

The characteristic quality of the Battle Creek Sanitarium Health Foods is the cooking or dextrinization of the farinaceous elements. It is this thorough cooking which renders toasted bread more digestible than ordinary bread. This crude and imperfect method, improved upon and perfected, has produced a series of health foods which are more digestible and nutritious than any others found upon the market. The chief of these is Granola, which is unexcelled for brain and nerve-building qualities. It has a rich, nutty flavor that is so much enjoyed by the athlete and invalid, and can be assimilated by the stomach of the dyspeptic as well as the robust. Sold in pound packages by grocers.

Readers of the SIGNS who will send the name of a grocer who does not sell Granola, to the Sanitarium Health Food Co., Battle Creek, Mich., will receive a free sample.