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The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

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Title: The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition
Author: A. W. Duncan
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Language: English
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THE CHEMISTRY OF FOOD AND NUTRITION
by
A. W. DUNCAN, F.C.S. Analytical Chemist.
Manchester The Vegetarian Society
1905

____________________________________________________________ | | | THE FOOD ROUTE | | | | Is the safest way to sturdy health. | | | | Many people are kept ill because they do not | | know how to select food that their own particular | | bodies will take up and build upon. | | | | What will answer for one will not do for another. | | | | If one is ailing it is safe to change food entirely | | and go on a plain simple diet, say, for breakfast:-- | | | | Cooked Fruit, | | Dish of GRAPE-NUTS and Cream or hot or | | cold Milk, Two lightly boiled eggs, | | One cup of our Postum Food Coffee, | | Slice of toast. No more. | | | | Our word! but a diet like that _makes one feel | | good_ after a few days' use. | | | | The most perfectly made food for human use is | | | | Grape-Nuts | | | | THERE'S A REASON. | | | | GRAPE-NUTS CO., Ltd., 66 Shoe Lane, London, E.C. | |____________________________________________________________|

____________________________________________________________ | | | The Vegetatian Society, | | | | _Operations National and International,_ | | | | 27 DEANSGATE, MANCHESTER. | | | | The Vegetarian Society is a philanthropic organisation, | | and is supported entirely by the voluntary | | contributions of those who sympathise with its aims. | | Gifts and Donations from any who are in sympathy with | | the Society's work will be gratefully acknowledged by | | the Secretary. Send penny stamp for Recipes and | | Explanatory literature. | |____________________________________________________________|
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____________________________________________________________ | | | Useful literature for Beginners. | | | | Vegetarianism and Manual Labour. 1/2d. | | | | The Liver: Its Influence on Health. Dr. Kellogg. ONE | | In Praise of Simpler Life. Eustace H. Miles PENNY | | Forty Vegetarian Dinners. 135 Recipes EACH. | | | | Chemistry of Food. By A.W. Duncan, F.C.S. | | Paper Copies 3d; Cloth 6d. | | | | The First Step. Tolstoy. 3d. | | | | Science in the Daily Meal. 3d. | | Fruits, Nuts, and Vegetables: Their uses as Food EACH. | | and Medicine | | | | _Postage extra._ | | | | From The Vegetarian Society, 257 Deansgate, Manchester. | |____________________________________________________________|

PREFACE.
The first edition of 1884 contained but 5 pages of type; the second of 1898, 14 pages. Only by conciseness has it been possible to give even a summary of the principles of dietetics within the limit or this pamphlet. Should there appear in places an abruptness or incompleteness of treatment, these limitations must be my excuse.
Those who wish to thoroughly study the science of food are referred to the standard work, "Food and Dietetics," by Dr. R. Hutchison (E. Arnold, 16s.). The effects of purin bodies in producing illness has been patiently and thoroughly worked out by Dr. Alexander Haig. Students are referred to his "Uric Acid, an epitome of the subject" (J. & A. Churchhill, 1904, 2s.6d.), or to his larger work on "Uric Acid." An able scientific summary of investigations on purins, their chemical and pathological properties, and the quantities in foods will be found in "The Purin Bodies of Food Stuffs," by Dr. I. Walker Hall (Sherratt & Hughes, Manchester, 1903, 4s.6d.). The U.S. Department of Agriculture has made a large number of elaborate researches on food and nutrition. My thanks are due to Mr. Albert Broadbent, the Secretary of the Vegetarian Society, for placing some of their bulletins in my hands, and for suggestions and help. He has also written several useful popular booklets on food of a very practical character, at from a penny to threepence each.
Popular literature abounds in unsound statements on food. It is