Alcohol has No Food Value
Booze has no aliment bulk and is awfully bound in its activity as a alleviative agent. Dr. Henry Monroe says, "every affectionate of actuality active by man as aliment consists of sugar, starch, oil and adhering bulk circuitous calm in assorted proportions. These are advised for the abutment of the beastly frame. The adhering attack of aliment fibrine, albumen and casein are active to anatomy up the anatomy while the oil, starch and amoroso are chiefly acclimated to accomplish calefaction in the body".
Now it is bright that if booze is a food, it will be begin to accommodate one or added of these substances.
There charge be in it either the nitrogenous elements begin chiefly in meats, eggs, milk, vegetables and seeds, out of which beastly tissue is congenital and adulteration repaired or the carbonaceous elements begin in fat, starch and sugar, in the burning of which calefaction and force are evolved.
"The accurateness of these groups of foods," says Dr. Hunt, "and their relations to the tissue-producing and heat-evolving capacities of man, are so audible and so accepted by abstracts on animals and by assorted tests of scientific, physiological and analytic experience, that no attack to abandon the allocation has prevailed. To draw so beeline a band of bound as to absolute the one absolutely to tissue or corpuscle assembly and the added to calefaction and force assembly through accustomed agitation and to abjure any ability of adequation beneath appropriate demands or amidst abnormal accession of one array is, indeed, untenable. This does not in the atomic invalidate the actuality that we are able to use these as absolute landmarks".
How these substances aback taken into the body, are alloyed and how they accomplish force, are able-bodied accepted to the chemist and physiologist, who is able, in the ablaze of well-ascertained laws, to actuate whether booze does or does not acquire a aliment value. For years, the ablest men in the medical profession accept accustomed this accountable the best accurate study, and accept subjected booze to every accepted analysis and experiment, and the aftereffect is that it has been, by accepted consent, afar from the chic of tissue-building foods. "We accept never," says Dr. Hunt, "seen but a distinct advancement that it could so act, and this a abandoned guess. One biographer (Hammond) thinks it accessible that it may 'somehow' access into aggregate with the articles of adulteration in tissues, and 'under assertive affairs ability crop their nitrogen to the architecture of fresh tissues.' No alongside in amoebic chemistry, nor any affirmation in beastly chemistry, can be begin to beleaguer this acceptance with the areola of a accessible hypothesis".
Dr. Richardson says: "Alcohol contains no nitrogen; it has none of the qualities of structure-building foods; i
t is butterfingers of actuality adapted into any of them; it is, therefore, not a aliment in any faculty of its actuality a effective abettor in architecture up the body." Dr. W.B. Carpenter says: "Alcohol cannot accession annihilation which is capital to the accurate diet of the tissues." Dr. Liebig says: "Beer, wine, spirits, etc., accouter no aspect able of entering into the agreement of the blood, able-bodied fibre, or any allotment which is the bench of the acceptance of life." Dr. Hammond, in his Tribune Lectures, in which he advocates the use of booze in assertive cases, says: "It is not ascertainable that booze undergoes about-face into tissue." Cameron, in his Manuel of Hygiene, says: "There is annihilation in booze with which any allotment of the anatomy can be nourished." Dr. E. Smith, F.R.S., says: "Alcohol is not a accurate food. It interferes with alimentation." Dr. T.K. Chambers says: "It is bright that we charge cease to attention alcohol, as in any sense, a food".
"Not audition in this substance," says Dr. Hunt, "any tissue-making ingredients, nor in its breaking up any combinations, such as we are able to trace in the corpuscle foods, nor any affirmation either in the acquaintance of physiologists or the trials of alimentarians, it is not admirable that in it we should acquisition neither the acceptance nor the ability of effective power."
Not award in booze annihilation out of which the anatomy can be congenital up or its adulteration supplied, it is abutting to be advised as to its heat-producing quality.
Production of heat.
"The aboriginal accepted analysis for a force-producing food," says Dr. Hunt, "and that to which added foods of that chic respond, is the assembly of calefaction in the aggregate of oxygen therewith. This calefaction bureau basic force, and is, in no baby degree, a admeasurement of the allusive bulk of the alleged respiratory foods. If we appraise the fats, the starches and the sugars, we can trace and appraisal the processes by which they advance calefaction and are afflicted into basic force, and can counterbalance the capacities of altered foods. We acquisition that the burning of carbon by abutment with oxygen is the law, that calefaction is the product, and that the accepted aftereffect is force, while the aftereffect of the abutment of the hydrogen of the foods with oxygen is water. If booze comes at all beneath this chic of foods, we accurately apprehend to acquisition some of the evidences which attach to the hydrocarbons."
What, then, is the aftereffect of abstracts in this direction? They accept been conducted through continued periods and with the greatest care, by men of the accomplished ability in allure and physiology, and the aftereffect is accustomed in these few words, by Dr. H.R. Wood, Jr., in his Materia Medica. "No one has been able to ascertain in the claret any of the accustomed after-effects of its oxidation." That is, no one has been able to acquisition that booze has undergone combustion, like fat, or starch, or sugar, and so accustomed calefaction to the body.
Alcohol and abridgement of temperature.
Instead of accretion it; and it has alike been acclimated in fevers as an anti-pyretic. So compatible has been the affidavit of physicians in Europe and America as to the cooling furnishings of alcohol, that Dr. Wood says, in his Materia Medica, "that it does not assume account while to absorb amplitude with a altercation of the subject." Liebermeister, one of the best abstruse contributors to Zeimssen's Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine, 1875, says: "I continued aback assertive myself, by absolute experiments, that alcohol, alike in analogously ample doses, does not drag the temperature of the anatomy in either able-bodied or ailing people." So able-bodied had this become accepted to Arctic voyagers, that, alike afore physiologists had approved the actuality that booze reduced, instead of increasing, the temperature of the body, they had abstruse that booze lessened their ability to bear acute cold. "In the Northern regions," says Edward Smith, "it was accepted that the absolute exclusion of booze was necessary, in adjustment to absorb calefaction beneath these abortive conditions."
Alcohol does not accomplish you strong.
If booze does not accommodate tissue-building material, nor accord calefaction to the body, it cannot possibly add to its strength. "Every affectionate of ability an beastly can generate," says Dr. G. Budd, F.R.S., "the automated ability of the muscles, the actinic (or digestive) ability of the stomach, the bookish ability of the academician accumulates through the diet of the bureau on which it depends." Dr. F.R. Lees, of Edinburgh, afterwards discussing the question, and educing evidence, remarks: "From the actual attributes of things, it will now be apparent how absurd it is that booze can be deepening aliment of either kind. Aback it cannot become a allotment of the body, it cannot appropriately accord to its cohesive, amoebic strength, or anchored power; and, aback it comes out of the anatomy aloof as it went in, it cannot, by its decomposition, accomplish calefaction force."
Sir Benjamin Brodie says: "Stimulants do not actualize afraid power; they alone accredit you, as it were, to use up that which is left, and afresh they leave you added in charge of blow than before."
Baron Liebig, so far aback as 1843, in his "Animal Chemistry," acicular out the aberration of booze breeding power. He says: "The apportionment will arise accelerated at the bulk of the force accessible for autonomous motion, but afterwards the assembly of a greater bulk of automated force." In his afterwards "Letters," he afresh says: "Wine is absolutely abounding to man, it is consistently followed by the amount of power" whereas, the absolute activity of aliment is to accord power. He adds: "These drinks advance the change of bulk in the body, and are, consequently, abounding by an entering accident of power, which ceases to be productive, because it is not active in advantageous apparent difficulties i.e., in working." In added words, this abundant chemist asserts that booze abstracts the ability of the arrangement from accomplishing advantageous assignment in the acreage or workshop, in adjustment to absolve the abode from the crime of booze itself.
The backward Dr. W. Brinton, Physician to St. Thomas', in his abundant assignment on Dietetics, says: "Careful ascertainment leaves little agnosticism that a abstinent dosage of beer or wine would, in best cases, at already abate the best weight which a advantageous actuality could lift. Mental acuteness, accurateness of acumen and airiness of the senses are all so far against by alcohol, as that the best efforts of anniversary are adverse with the assimilation of any abstinent abundance of brewed liquid. A distinct bottle will about answer to booty the bend off both apperception and body, and to abate their accommodation to article beneath their ability of work."
Dr. F.R. Lees, F.S.A., autograph on the accountable of booze as a food, makes the afterward citation from an article on "Stimulating Drinks," appear by Dr. H.R. Madden, as continued ago as 1847: "Alcohol is not the accustomed bang to any of our organs, and hence, functions performed in aftereffect of its application, tend to attenuate the bureau acted upon.
Alcohol is butterfingers of actuality alloyed or adapted into any amoebic about principle, and hence, cannot be advised nutritious.
The backbone accomplished afterwards the use of booze is not fresh backbone added to the system, but is embodied by calling into exercise the afraid activity pre-existing.
The ultimate backbreaking furnishings of alcohol, attributable to its analeptic properties, aftermath an aberrant susceptibility to aberrant activity in all the organs, and this, with the deluge superinduced, becomes a abundant antecedent of disease.
A actuality who commonly exerts himself to such an admeasurement as to crave the circadian use of stimulants to area off exhaustion, may be compared to a apparatus alive beneath aerial pressure. He will become abundant added abhorrent to the causes of disease, and will absolutely breach bottomward eventually than he would accept done beneath added favorable circumstances.
The added frequently booze is had recourse to for the purpose of advantageous animosity of debility, the added it will be required, and by connected alliteration a aeon is at breadth accomplished aback it cannot be foregone, unless acknowledgment is accompanying brought about by a acting absolute change of the habits of life.
Driven to the wall.
Not award that booze possesses any absolute comestible value, the medical advocates of its use accept been apprenticed to the acceptance that it is a affectionate of accessory food, in that it has the ability to adjournment the alteration of tissue. "By the alteration of tissue is meant," says Dr. Hunt, "that change which is consistently activity on in the arrangement which involves a connected abrasion of material; a breaking up and alienated of that which is no best aliment, authoritative allowance for that fresh accession which is to sustain life." Another medical writer, in apropos to this metamorphosis, says: "The accent of this action to the aliment of activity is readily apparent by the abusive furnishings which chase aloft its disturbance. If the acquittal of the excrementitious substances be in any way impeded or suspended, these substances accrue either in the claret or tissues, or both. In aftereffect of this assimilation and accession they become poisonous, and rapidly aftermath a ataxia of the basic functions. Their access is principally exerted aloft the afraid system, through which they aftermath best common irritability, agitation of the appropriate senses, delirium, insensibility, coma, and finally, death."
"This description," animadversion Dr. Hunt, "seems about advised for alcohol." He afresh says: "To affirmation booze as a aliment because it delays the alteration of tissue, is to affirmation that it in some way suspends the accustomed conduct of the laws of assimilation and nutrition, of adulteration and repair. A arch apostle of booze (Hammond) appropriately illustrates it: 'Alcohol retards the abolition of the tissues. By this destruction, force is generated, anatomy contract, thoughts are developed, organs bury and excrete.' In added words, booze interferes with all these. No admiration the columnist 'is not clear' how it does this, and we are not bright how such delayed alteration recuperates.
Not an artist of basic force.
which is not accepted to accept any of the accepted ability of foods, and use it on the bifold acceptance that it delays alteration of tissue, and that such adjournment is bourgeois of health, is to canyon alfresco of the bound of science into the acreage of alien possibilities, and advise the appellation of adjuster aloft an abettor whose bureau is itself doubtful.
Having bootless to analyze booze as a nitrogenous or non-nitrogenous food, not accepting begin it acquiescent to any of the evidences by which the food-force of aliments is about measured, it will not do for us to allocution of account by adjournment of astern alteration unless such action is accompanied with article apocalyptic of the actuality article scientifically anecdotic of its approach of ability in the case at hand, and unless it is apparent to be about adorable for alimentation.
There can be no agnosticism that booze does account defects in the processes of abolishment which are accustomed to the advantageous anatomy and which alike in ache are about bourgeois of health.
