Fats and Oils.

As the name implies, the proteids, or nitrogenous foods, contain nitrogen; carbohydrates and fats, on the contrary, do not contain nitrogen.

These include not only the ordinary fats of meat, but many animal and vegetable oils.

The use of the fats in the body is essentially the same as that of the starches and sugars.

Then there is reason to believe that fat helps the digestion of other foods, for it is found that the body is better nourished when the fats are used as food.

There remains on the cloth a grayish white, sticky, elastic "gluten," made up of albumen, some of the ash, and fats.

Allow the ether to evaporate, when a greasy stain will be left, thus showing the presence of fats in the flour.

The gastric juice has no action on starchy foods, neither does it act on fats, except to dissolve the albuminous walls of the fat cells.

Of the various ingredients of the bile, only the bile salts are of use in the work of digestion, for they act upon the fats in the alimentary canal, and aid somehow in their emulsion and absorption.

They appear to be themselves split up into other substances, and absorbed with the dissolved fats into the blood stream again.

In this way the oils and fats are divided into particles sufficiently minute to permit of their being absorbed into the blood.

To show the action of pancreatic juice upon oils or fats.

Here the casein (carrying with it most of the fats) is precipitated in a neutral fluid.

To show the action of bile on fats.

To show that bile favors filtration and the absorption of fats.

Experiments with the Fats.

In their passage through the blood and tissues, the albumens, sugars, starches, and fats are converted into carbon dioxid, water, and urea, or some closely allied body.

The lascivious dotes on his fair mistress, the glutton on his dishes, which are infinitely varied to please the palate, the epicure on his several pleasures, the superstitious on his idol, and fats himself with future joys, as Turks feed themselves with an imaginary persuasion of a sensual paradise: so several pleasant objects diversely affect diverse men.

She had grown up listening to Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and Fats Waller, her father's nod to modernity.

Those who are studying wholesomeness and digestibility, however, will avoid as far as possible the use of chemicals for raising, and fats of doubtful purity such as hog's lard.

Chemicals, cheap fats, and yeast are banished.

It will soon be impossible to even enumerate the many excellent varieties of Nut Butters and vegetarian fats upon the market.

One of the first really good fats available, and one which has stood the test of time and competition, is Cocoa Nut Butter, put up by the London Nut Food Co., one of the earliest and most enterprising firms to whom we are indebted for doing so much to make easy the path of food reform.

It is a comfort, however, to know that the name is all these goods have in common with the often objectionable fats which come under this comprehensive title.

It is desirable to have cleanliness and purity all round; and we are glad to be independent, even in the matter of soap, of the filthy refuse fats so often used in its manufacture.