Diet and food considered in relation to strength and power of endurance, training and athletics / by Alexander Haig.

  • Haig, Alexander, 1853-1924.
Date:
1900
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    see further on ; but the first point is a sufficient quantity of albumen, and this in a condition suitable for digestion and absorption. With these simple facts kept ever in mind there is no dif&culty at all in getting sufficient albumen, and therefore sufficient strength and nutrition, out of many kinds of food besides those which form the staple diet of England to-day. But those who have been ignorant of these facts, and have attempted to walk without the light of knowledge, have fallen into many and great errors, but chiefly in one of two directions. Either they have been ignorant of the quantities required, and have greatly over-estimated the nutri- tion values of garden vegetables and garden fruits, attempting to live on these alone, which it is almost impossible to do. Or they have under- estimated the nutrition values of such things as milk and cheese, and attempted to eat them in as large quantities as the above fruits and vegetables. It is also possible, by introducing more food than can readily be digested, to overpower digestion, so that nothing is digested and absorbed and starva- tion results, a fact which is brought to the front in the most interesting manner in the writings of Dr. Dewey.^ 'The True Science of Living, by E. H. Dewey, M.D., Norwich, Conn. The Henry Bill PubHshing Company, and J. and J. Bumpus, Ltd., Oxford Street, London, England. 189o.