Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them: More Than Two Hundred and Fifty Choice Recipes Compiled Especially for Customers and Friends of the Larkin Co (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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There are a lot of little stoves in my stomach in which the fires need to be kept burning, so I will be warm. This little girl of eight summers had the right theory dimly in mind when she made this reply.

When we ask ourselves, Why do we eat? We often carelessly reply, To be fed. What does this mean to us? Hutchinson says: Food is anything which, when taken into the body is capable of either repairing its waste, or of furnishing it with material from which to produce heat, or nervous and muscular work.

The comparison of the body-the living physical machine - to a locomotive is an old one, but let us use it again. The locomotive is built for one purpose, to haul cars over two steel rails for the convenience of man. The sight of one, puffing and screeching, with its great load of cars behind it, fills one with amazement at its complexity and power; yet it is but one of many wonderful inventions accomplished by man. Much more complex and powerful is he. How carefully an engineer chooses the fuel and lubricants to be used. How much more carefully should man choose his food.

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