How to be Plump, Or, Talks on Physiological FeedingDuncan Brothers, 1878 - 60 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
How to Be Plump, Or, Talks on Physiological Feeding Thomas Cation Duncan No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2016 |
How to Be Plump, Or Talks on Physiological Feeding (Classic Reprint) Thomas Cation Duncan No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2018 |
How to Be Plump, Or, Talks On Physiological Feeding Thomas Cation Duncan No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2023 |
Términos y frases comunes
adipose tissue adult Albumen animal frame appetite Become Plump beer bile bloating blood brain bread cane sugar Carbon carbonic acid casein cause of leanness cells cent Chicago Chicago fire child circulating fluid climate cold color constipation corpuscles dextrine diet diges digestion and assimilation drink of water DUNCAN BROTHERS emulsified excess fattening process Fatty feeding feet Fibrin flesh functions ghee globules grow half glass Harvey on Corpulence hearty meal Homœopathic Treatment hour importance of fat inches increase infants innutritious intestines juice keep plump lacteal lactic acid Laws of Health lean person MEDICAL INVESTIGATOR milk month nervous numbers Oxygen oysters pancreatic pancreatic juice Phosphate physicians Physiology picture of health pounds prevents fattening quantity quickens the circulation rule salt Scarlet Fever seen skin sleep solid soup starch starchy food stew stimulants substances sweets thin tion tissues UNITED STATES MEDICAL urine vegetables water taken weight
Pasajes populares
Página 47 - ... Joule and Meyer, this is equivalent to the power of raising 18,003 Ibs. one foot high. In cold countries, where animal warmth is required, food rich in fat is always preferred ; and the fat bacon of the English labourer contributes in no small degree to the production of mechanical force. But besides this, fat serves important functions in the processes of digestion, assimilation, and nutrition. According to Lehmann, it is one of the most active agents in the metamorphosis of animal matter ;...
Página 46 - ... considerably in the digestion of it. Gum and Pectin are probably not digested at all, for as they are unchanged by contact with the secretions, and are incapable of dialysis or absorption, they must pass through the alimentary canal without serving any purpose in nutrition. Fatty Matters are digested by the emulsifying action of the pancreatic fluid ; and by being thus broken up into extremely minute globules they are freely admitted into the lacteal vessels ; in fact, the emulsified globules...
Página 43 - ... bodies are composed, cannot be doubted ; yet that fat, or some nearly allied principle, admits of the highest degree of organization of which matter is perhaps capable, is evident from the large proportion in which it enters into the nervous and cerebral tissues ; one-fourth at least of the solid matters composing which tissues, is said to consist of * Prout, " Stomach and Renal Disorders,
Página 22 - ... in hand with a rise in all other essentials of health, and notably with an improvement in the color and amount of the red corpuscles. The quantity of fat which is healthy for the individual varies with the sex, the climate, the habits, the season, the time of life, the race, and the breed.
Página 58 - Among the Asiatics there is a sect of Brahmins who pride themselves on their extreme corpulency. Their diet consists of farinaceous vegetables, milk, sugar, sweetmeats, and ghee. They look upon corpulency as a proof of opulence ; and many arrive at a great degree of obesity without tasting anything that has ever lived.
Página 43 - ... its estimation among the Hebrews. The Hindoo Sepoy, when he devours his gallon of rice for a meal, will spend all the pice he can get on the clarified butter of the country ; and " as good as ghee " is his expression of unqualified praise.
Página 43 - It was a mistake in Baron Liebig to state that oily foods are disgustful to natives of hot climates. All races of men require them and seek after them ; and the taste of the Esquimaux, so often quoted, depends mainly on the abundant supply of the article which the sea places at his disposal, coupled with a scantiness of other provisions.
Página 48 - ... of food, and its absorption into the blood, is greatly assisted by it. There is also good reason for believing that it is largely concerned in the formation of bile, and that the biliary acids are conjugated fatty compounds. This may account for the well known action of fat bacon, and other such foods in promoting the secretion of bile.
Página 43 - A moderate amount of fat is a sign of good health, and physiologists generally allow that the adipose tissue ought to form about the twentieth part of the weight of a man, and the sixteenth of a woman. Independently of the importance of fat as a nonconducting substance, in impeding the too rapid escape of animal heat, it may also be regarded as a store of material to compensate for waste of tissue, under sickness or other circumstances entailing temporary abstinence from food. Nevertheless, in excess...