Food; Its Relations to Health and Disease (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Water as a Chemical Substance Contains hydrogen and oxygen of its own chemical composition and nitrogen and oxygen from the air in it. There are in water and the air it contains, enough to support life for some time, if said life force is carefully husbanded; a Doctor Tanner was once noted in New York for living on air and water for forty days; of course it depends upon the goodness of the food supplies found in the body that undergoes such fasting, cannibalizing itself; dogs have starved in forty days fed on common flour preparations, while others lived as long on nothing but water.' Summary Water is classed by our prologue as inorganic, mineral, spiritual, suited to all, physiological, chemical, structural, next to air as a life need, a food in disease, a food for head, nerves, heart, lungs, bones, teeth, hair, etc., used often, has to do with heat, natural, climatic, aesthetic. . Sodium Chloride, NaCl: Inorganic (mineral kingdom); but present in the animal and vegetable kingdoms; also must be spiritual, as the body is not whole without it?good if used rightly?added to other foods in proper proportion is healthful?suits all parts of the body?is not a heat producer yet forceful as osmosis depends on it?climatic on sea and shore?natural?delightfully aesthetic to the taste of one deprived of normal salt in food?fashionable in all menus, written or unwritten. Dissolves readily?takes water from the air (hygroscopic)?has water of crystallization in it. Keeps the red corpuscles rounded out, distinct, separate; if withdrawn, man would die from broken up red blood corpuscles. With nitrate of silver it has been found in every tissue, as the observer learned in Professor J. P. Cooke's laboratory at Harvard, in 1853-54, and is universally present in nature as shown by the need ...