Strength From Eating | by Bernarr MacFadden
How and what to eat and drink to develop the highest degree of health and strength. The beauty and glory of superb physical health are within the reach of all who are willing to strive for such glorious rewards.
| Title | Strength From Eating |
| Author | Bernarr MacFadden |
| Publisher | Physical Culture Publishing Co. and MacFadden Physical Development |
| Year | 1901 |
| Copyright | 1901, Bernarr MacFadden |
| Amazon | Strength from Eating |
Man is what foods make him. Eat to enjoy, not merely to fill your stomach. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Prof. L. H. Anderson.
Some "Eat to live"; others "Live to eat," but if you so live that the highest and most intense enjoyment can be secured from eating that superb health which at times thrills every nerve with surplus power will be your ever-present possession.
Preface- Strength! How we all yearn for this grand power! No matter how much strength may be possessed one always desires more. It is like money. You can never secure enough. No matter what may be your desire...
- Chapter I. Appetite
- Eating without appetite is actually the only cause for the depraved physical condition described above. There can be no other cause. Food cannot lie in the stomach undigested if the stomach is first p...
- Chapter II. Mastication
- Digestion begins in the mouth. The thorough chewing and mixing of the food with saliva is, consequently, one of the principle and important factors in digestion. All foods in a natural state require a...
- Chapter III. Process Of Digestion
- Though I have tried to avoid all possible use of technical terms, in the following very abbreviated description of the digestive organs and their processes, their use will be occasionally required. I...
- Chapter IV. Air
- Though air is not generally considered a food, the oxygen secured from the air is really more essential to life than any food element. We can live without food for months; we can live without water fo...
- Chapter V. Water
- Though many do not consider water a food for the reason that it does not furnish energy, it nevertheless constitutes a large part of the body, and is as necessary to life as any other element which en...
- Chapter VI. Overeating
- One of the greatest sins against the body is overeating. The intemperate indulgence in alcoholic liquors, is, unquestionably, a great evil. It fills thousands of graves, and ruins thousands of homes, ...
- Chapter VII. Three-Meal Plan
- Though I believe either the two or the one-meal plan would be found superior to three meals each day, one can undoubtedly follow this usual method and still retain vigorous health if he will occasiona...
- Chapter VIII. Two-Meal Plan
- Two meals each day will furnish necessary nourishment for any one, no matter what his occupation may be. The idea that the stomach must never be empty, that it must have something to work on or it wil...
- Chapter IX. One-Meal Plan
- To most Americans one meal per day would seem like starvation, but many thin persons have been known to gain greatly in weight by the adoption of this abstemious diet. The explanation of this apparent...
- Chapter X. Meat, Or Mixed Diet
- Though I am inclined to favor what is called a vegetarian diet, when milk and eggs are not excluded, I am not one of those who holds that a high degree of health cannot also be acquired and retained w...
- Chapter XI. Vegetables
- Though I am inclined to favor a vegetable diet I am not one of the rabid kind. I usually eat whatever my appetite calls for, and sometimes do not touch meat of any kind for months. I firmly believe th...
- Chapter XII. Raw Diet
- From a theoretical standpoint it is easy to reason to the conclusion that a raw diet - grains, vegetables, fruits and nuts - should be the natural food of man. One can easily imagine how the first man...
- Chapter XIII. Cooking Of Foods
- To give any comprehensive information of value in reference to cooking would require a book in itself. But, I would like to call attention to the usual inclination to cook every article of food until ...
- Chapter XV. Food And Occupation
- Food is used to repair the waste and worn-out elements of the body. The occupation to a very great extent influences the character of these needed elements, and though the food we eat should be determ...
- Chapter XVI. Food And Temperature
- The needs of the body vary greatly in different temperatures. In the far north all carbonaceous foods, fats, etc., are greatly relished, while in torrid countries, fruits, vegetables, and lighter food...
- Chapter XVII. Alcoholic Liquors
- Alcohol in any form is not allowable if the diet is to be confined to those foods that build strength. It may stimulate, and does, unquestionably, at times buoy one with a feeling of false strength, b...
- Chapter XVIII. Drinking At Meals
- Unquestionably, the habit of drinking at meals should be most severely condemned. If the food is being properly masticated there is never desire for liquid of any kind. It is only when food is hurried...
- Chapter XIX. Ice Water
- Though tea and coffee are undoubtedly baneful in their effects, the ice-water habit, now almost universal in America, is the cause of much physical weakness and disease. True, many persons seem to imb...
- Chapter XX. Coffee And Tea
- Coffee and tea are supposed by many to contain nourishing elements, that actually give strength to the body. They strengthen just as does whisky, beer and other alcoholic beverages. They are stimulant...
- Chapter XXI. The White-Bread Curse
- White bread, the American staff of life, is the greatest humbug ever foisted upon a civilized people. Staff of life, indeed! Why, it is more like a staff of death. It is composed largely of the st...
- Chapter XXII. Elements Of Foods
- The body, as the reader is no doubt aware, is composed of various elements, the exact proportion of which cannot be determined save by a chemical analysis. The bones are composed of lime and other min...
- Chapter XXIII. Muscle-Making Elements
- Similar elements to those of which the muscles are composed, also form the cells of the brain. Therefore the importance of nitrogenous elements in the food is not confined entirely to manual workers, ...
- Chapter XXIV. Fattening Elements
- The carbonaceous foods furnish the elements that produce fat. The human body, and in fact, the bodies of all animals, are from one standpoint only storage batteries. In an electric battery the power s...
- Chapter XXV. Mineral Elements
- The importance of mineral matter which has been vitalized by vegetable life, in our food, is about equal to the other elements. The principle was established long ago that animals cannot organize or...
- Chapter XXVI. Wheat And Wheat Preparations
- Wheat is considered one of the most valuable food elements which is now used. It is admitted by hygienists everywhere to contain in almost perfect proportion the exact elements needed to nourish the b...
- Chapter XXVII. Oats And Other Grains
- Analyses. Water. Mineral. Nitrogenous (Muscle). Fiber. Starch, Fat, etc. Barley .. 10.9 2.4 12.4 2.7 71.6 Buckwheat Flour ......
- Chapter XXVIII. Vegetables
- Next to wheat, oats are probably the most valuable food of this character. They are very rich in nitrogenous substances, and also contain large quantities of fat which makes them very valuable as a fo...
- Chapter XXIX. Dairy Products
- Milk and products derived from it furnish a large part of the food used in the civilized world. As a rule it is a most satisfactory food though when one is inclined to be of a bilious temperament it c...
- Chapter XXX. Fruits, Berries, Etc
- Fruits of all kinds form not only a delicious addition to our diet, but are valuable in many ways. They are naturally deficient in actual nourishment, but the water which they contain is absolutely pu...
- Chapter XXXI. Meats
- There is unquestionably much to be learned as to the proper diet of man. Experiments heretofore have been made simply by a few individuals here and there. No really concerted efforts of importance hav...
- Chapter XXXII. Nuts
- About the richest food that can be found in all the products used by man is unquestionably nut meats. It is a general impression that these foods are very difficult to digest, and in fact the average ...
- Chapter XXXIII. Fish
- Fish is generally considered to be a very valuable food for the brain. This is an error. It is far less valuable as a brain food than numerous others. In fact it would be well to remember that what is...
- Miscellaneous Food Products
- Analyses. Water. Mineral. Nitrogenous (Muscle). Fat. Gelatin .... 13.6 2.1 84.2 .1 Cottolene .. .. . ...
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