Volume I

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Preface [vii]
[Lesson I]
The Interrelation of Food Chemistry and PhysiologicalChemistry [1]
Food Chemistry and Physiological Chemistry United[3]
Relation of Superacidity to Other Dis-eases[6]
Chart Showing the Number of So-called Dis-eases Caused by Superacidity[9]
Natural Laws Demand Obedience[11]
How to Make Nutrition a Science[14]
Our Food Must Fit into Our Civilization[17]
Why the Science of Human Nutrition is in Its Infancy[18]
[Lesson II]
Simple Principles of General Chemistry [23]
Chemical Elements[27]
Air and Oxygen[32]
Manufacture of Oxygen[33]
Chemical Action of Oxygen:
(a) Upon Substances[36]
(b) In Living Bodies[38]
Hydrogen and Water[42]
Uses of Water in Chemistry[48]
Importance of Solution to the Food Scientist[50]
Importance of Water in the Human Body[52]
Uses of Water in the Body[53]
Nitrogen and Nitrogen Compounds[58]
Chlorin[63]
Hydrochloric Acid[64]
Acids, Bases, Neutralization, Salts[68]
Principles of Neutralizing Alkalies[71]
Fluorin, Bromin, Iodin[73]
Mineral Sulfur[73]
Vegetable Sulfur in the Human Body[75]
Metals[76]
[Lesson III]
Organic Chemistry[79]
Carbon[81]
Inorganic Carbon Compounds[83]
Carbon Dioxid[83]
Relation of Carbon Dioxid to Life [85]
Carbon Monoxid[86]
Organic Carbon Compounds[87]
Classification of Organic Carbon
Compounds:
a Hydrocarbons[89]
b Alcohols[91]
c Glycerin[92]
d Aldehydes and Ethers[93]
e Organic Acids[94]
Organic Nitrogenous Compounds[99]
[Lesson IV]
Chemistry of Foods[103]
Carbohydrates[107]
Classification of Carbohydrates[108]
a Monosaccharids[109]
b Disaccharids[112]
c Polysaccharids[114]
Fats and Oils[122]
Proteids or Nitrogenous Food Substances [125]
Mineral Salts in Food[131]
[Lesson V]
Chemistry of Digestion[135]
Digestive Organs and Digestive Juices[137]
Saliva[142]
Gastric Juice[144]
Composition of the Gastric Juice[147]
Bile[153]
Pancreatic Juice[153]
Intestinal Juices[157]
The Secretion of Digestive Juices[158]
Abnormal Chemical Changes in the Digestive Organs [165]
The Decomposition of Food[173]
Digestive Experiments[175]
Mechanics of Digestion[180]
The Muscular Movement of Digestive Organs[187]
[Lesson VI]
Chemistry of Metabolism[191]
The Building of Actual Body-tissue[195]
The Generation of Heat and Energy[197]
The Measure of Human Energy[199]
Metabolism of Carbohydrates[202]
Metabolism of Fat[205]
Metabolism of Proteids[209]
The Use of Proteids in the Body[210]
The Action and the Composition of Proteids [213]
Food Standards[217]
True Food Requirements[226]
[Lesson VII]
Foods of Animal Origin[233]
Meat[250]
1 Flesh or Lean Meat[250]
2 Animal Fats[254]
Cold Storage of Meat[256]
Contagious Dis-eases and Animal Food [258]
Fish[260]
Poultry as an Article of Food[262]
Effects of Feeding Poultry[265]
Eggs[269]
Milk[273]
The Adulteration of Milk[279]
Milk Pasteurization[280]
Cheese[282]
Butter[283]
Oleomargarin[285]