Dietotherapy, Vol. 2 PDF Download

Author: William Edward Fitch
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ISBN: 9781332334797
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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Excerpt from Dietotherapy, Vol. 2: Nutrition and Diet in Health The different methods of food preservation have of late years received much attention, for it is very largely due to the different processes of preserving food that it is possible to maintain large armies and navies in action and to permit of the aggregation of men in communities away from all immediate sources of food supply. It was originally thought that mere contact with the air was the prime cause of the decomposition of food, but experiments have proven that the great number of germs contained in even comparatively pure atmospheres are the real agents of putrefaction, rather than the air itself. The basis of all food preservation depends upon the principle of preventing microorganisms present in the atmosphere from coming into contact with food to contaminate it. Since germs of putrefaction require a certain amount of moisture and heat for their growth, such foods as contain little water, and that are not kept too warm, are not so likely to undergo decomposition; on the other hand, foods containing much water undergo fermentation very rapidly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.