A popular health writer explains, for ordinary readers of the 1910s, what food is for and how the body uses it. She sorts foods into their elements, discusses beverages, metabolism, fatigue and breathing, and sets out menus and habits she believed would keep a household well. The nutritional science is that of its day, and some of it has since been revised.
A window onto how Americans were taught to think about diet before vitamins were well understood. Download the free EPUB.