p. 10 | DAVID PAULSON, M.D by David Paulson, M.D.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 17, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 42.

DAVID PAULSON, M.D

By David Paulson, M.D.

SOME POINTS REGARDING FOOD. No. 5.

Comparative Food Value.

AS TO nourishment, three-fourths of meat is simply water, and contaminated water at that, and only one-fourth of it is food substances; consequently there is more beefsteak in a pound of peas, beans, or lentils than there is in a pound of beefsteak. It takes three or four pounds of meat to contain as much nourishment as is found in a pound of beans; therefore it is necessary to buy forty or fifty cents worth of meat to equal three or four cents worth of beans. Is it any wonder that men and women are poor, when they so recklessly spend their money for that which is not bread?

A pound of peanuts contains one-half pound of fat and more than a quarter of a pound of the same food elements that are in beefsteak. The source from which to get meat is from the legumes and the nut preparations. The fatty substances can be beautifully gotten from the nut preparations, and they can, of course, be secured from cream and butter; for milk and cream on general principles are less harmful than meat. But as animals are becoming so diseased, it is evident that the time has come when we must put aside these animal products entirely, and study and plan how to live upon the products that come to us from the earth. And what a beautiful array there is of them!

Let us remember that we get the food elements in almost the natural proportions in the various grains. Several years ago I conducted an experiment by having ten young men and women eat nothing but granose; they were all engaged in both mental and physical work, and every one of them gained flesh, and they were apparently every way better for the experiment. There is no doubt but that life could be sustained upon any one grain product alone, properly prepared, if it were not that we naturally crave variety; therefore it is essential to have different foods.