ALCOHOL HAS NO FOOD VALUE
Liquor has no sustenance esteem and is exceedingly constrained in its activity as a healing specialist. Dr. Henry Monroe says, “”each sort of substance utilized by man as sustenance comprises of sugar, starch, oil and glutinous matter blended together in different extents. These are intended for the support of the creature outline. The glutinous standards of nourishment fibrine, egg whites and casein are utilized to develop the structure while the oil, starch and sugar are mostly used to produce warm in the body””.
Presently unmistakably if liquor is a sustenance, it will be found to contain at least one of these substances. There must be in it either the nitrogenous components discovered essentially in meats, eggs, drain, vegetables and seeds, out of which creature tissue is assembled and waste repaired or the carbonaceous components found in fat, starch and sugar, in the utilization of which warmth and drive are advanced.
“”The uniqueness of these gatherings of nourishments,”” says Dr. Chase, “”and their relations to the tissue-delivering and warm developing limits of man, are so unmistakable thus affirmed by trials on creatures and by complex trial of logical, physiological and clinical experience, that no endeavor to dispose of the order has won. To draw so straight a line of division as to point of confinement the one altogether to tissue or cell creation and the other to warmth and constrain generation through customary burning and to preclude any power from securing compatibility under extraordinary requests or in the midst of damaged supply of one assortment is, in fact, untenable. This does not at all discredit the way that we can utilize these as learned points of interest””.
How these substances when taken into the body, are absorbed and how they create drive, are notable to the scientific expert and physiologist, who is capable, in the light of very much found out laws, to figure out if liquor does or does not have a sustenance esteem. For a considerable length of time, the ablest men in the therapeutic calling have given this subject the most cautious review, and have subjected liquor to each known test and test, and the outcome is that it has been, by basic assent, barred from the class of tissue-building nourishments. “”We have never,”” says Dr. Chase, “”seen yet a solitary proposal that it could so act, and this an indiscriminate figure. One author (Hammond) supposes it conceivable that it might “some way or another” go into blend with the results of rot in tissues, and ‘in specific situations may yield their nitrogen to the development of new tissues.’ No parallel in natural science, nor any confirmation in creature science, can be found to encompass this figure with the areola of a conceivable speculation””.
Dr. Richardson says: “”Alcohol contains no nitrogen; it has none of the characteristics of structure-building nourishments; it is unequipped for being changed into any of them; it is, subsequently, not a sustenance in any feeling of its being a productive operator in working up the body.”” Dr. W.B. Craftsman says: “”Alcohol can’t supply anything which is basic to the genuine nourishment of the tissues.”” Dr. Liebig says: “”Beer, wine, spirits, and so forth., outfit no component equipped for going into the structure of the blood, strong fiber, or any part which is the seat of the rule of life.”” Dr. Hammond, in his Tribune Lectures, in which he advocates the utilization of liquor in specific cases, says: “”It is not certifiable that liquor experiences transformation into tissue.”” Cameron, in his Manuel of Hygiene, says: “”There is nothing in liquor with which any part of the body can be supported.”” Dr. E. Smith, F.R.S., says: “”Alcohol is not a genuine sustenance. It meddles with nourishment.”” Dr. T.K. Chambers says: “”It is evident that we should stop to respect liquor, as in any sense, a sustenance””.
“”Not distinguishing in this substance,”” says Dr. Chase, “”any tissue-production fixings, nor in its separating any mixes, for example, we can follow in the cell sustenances, nor any proof either in the experience of physiologists or the trials of alimentarians, it is not great that in it we ought to discover neither the hope nor the acknowledgment of valuable power.””
Not finding in liquor anything out of which the body can be developed or its waste provided, it is alongside be inspected as to its warmth delivering quality.
Generation of warmth.
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“”The primary normal test for a constrain creating sustenance,”” says Dr. Chase, “”and that to which different nourishments of that class react, is the generation of warmth in the blend of oxygen therewith. This warmth implies fundamental drive, and is, in no little degree, a measure of the relative estimation of the supposed respiratory nourishments. On the off chance that we look at the fats, the starches and the sugars, we can follow and assess the procedures by which they develop warm and are changed into crucial compel, and can measure the limits of various nourishments. We find that the utilization of carbon by union with oxygen is the law, that warmth is the item, and that the true blue outcome is drive, while the consequence of the union of the hydrogen of the nourishments with oxygen is water. On the off chance that liquor comes at all under this class of nourishments, we properly hope to discover a portion of the proofs which connect to the hydrocarbons.””
What, then, is the consequence of trials in this course? They have been directed through long stretches and with the best care, by men of the most elevated accomplishments in science and physiology, and the outcome is given in these few words, by Dr. H.R. Wood, Jr., in his Materia Medica. “”Nobody has possessed the capacity to distinguish in the blood any of the standard aftereffects of its oxidation.”” That is, nobody has possessed the capacity to find that liquor has experienced ignition, similar to fat, or starch, or sugar, thus offered warmth to the body.
Liquor and lessening of temperature.
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rather than expanding it; and it has even been utilized as a part of fevers as a hostile to pyretic. So uniform has been the declaration of doctors in Europe and America with regards to the cooling impacts of liquor, that Dr. Wood says, in his Materia Medica, “”that it doesn’t appear to be worth while to possess space with a discourse of the subject.”” Liebermeister, a standout amongst the most learned givers to Zeimssen’s Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine, 1875, says: “”I since a long time ago persuaded myself, by direct trials, that liquor, even in similarly substantial measurements, does not lift the temperature of the body in either well or wiped out individuals.”” So well had this turned out to be known to Arctic voyagers, that, even before physiologists had exhibited the way that liquor decreased, rather than expanding, the temperature of the body, they had discovered that spirits reduced their energy to withstand extraordinary icy. “”In the Northern areas,”” says Edward Smith, “”it was demonstrated that the whole avoidance of spirits was vital, with a specific end goal to hold warm under these troublesome conditions.””
Liquor does not make you solid.
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In the event that liquor does not contain tissue-building material, nor offer warmth to the body, it can’t in any way, shape or form add to its quality. “”Each sort of force a creature can produce,”” says Dr. G. Budd, F.R.S., “”the mechanical force of the muscles, the compound (or stomach related) force of the stomach, the scholarly force of the cerebrum collects through the nourishment of the organ on which it depends.”” Dr. F.R. Dregs, of Edinburgh, in the wake of talking about the question, and eliciting proof, comments: “”From the very way of things, it will now be perceived how unimaginable it is that liquor can reinforce sustenance of either kind. Since it can’t turn into a part of the body, it can’t subsequently add to its strong, natural quality, or settled power; and, since it leaves the body similarly as it went in, it can’t, by its deterioration, create warm constrain.””
Sir Benjamin Brodie says: “”Stimulants don’t make apprehensive power; they simply empower you, in a manner of speaking, to go through that which is left, and after that they abandon you more needing rest than some time recently.””
Aristocrat Liebig, so far back as 1843, in his “”Animal Chemistry,”” called attention to the deception of liquor producing power. He says: “”The course will seem quickened to the detriment of the drive accessible for deliberate movement, however without the generation of a more prominent measure of mechanical constrain.”” In his later “”Letters,”” he again says: “”Wine is very pointless to man, it is continually trailed by the consumption of force”” while, the genuine capacity of sustenance is to give control. He includes: “”These beverages advance the change of matter in the body, and are, thusly, gone to by an internal loss of force, which stops to be gainful, in light of the fact that it is not utilized in defeating outward challenges i.e., in working.”” at the end of the day, this extraordinary physicist attests that liquor abstracts the force of the framework from doing valuable work in the field or workshop, so as to rinse the house from the debasement of liquor itself.
The late Dr. W. Brinton, Physician to St. Thomas’, in his extraordinary work on Dietetics, says: “”Careful perception departs little uncertainty that a direct measurements of lager or wine would, much of the time, on the double reduce the most extreme weight which a sound individual could lift. Mental intensity, precision of discernment and delicacy of the faculties are all so far contradicted by liquor, as that the greatest endeavors of each are contradictory with the ingestion of any direct amount of aged fluid. A solitary glass will regularly suffice to lift the spirits both personality and body, and to diminish their ability to something beneath their flawlessness of work.””
Dr. F.R. Dregs, F.S.A., composing on the subject of liquor as a sustenance, makes the accompanying citation from a paper on “”Stimulating Drinks,”” distributed by Dr. H.R. Irritate, as long prior as 1847: “”Alcohol is not the regular boost to any of our organs, and henceforth, capacities performed in result of its application, have a tendency to incapacitate the organ followed up on.
