High Energy Food IllustrationsWritten by Dr. Donald A. Miller
Take a raw carrot, and hold it to a bare flame. Nothing much happens except some charring and bad smell.Place some liquid fat (oils) in a shallow dish prepared with a wick. Touch a match to saturated wick, and observe heat and light that results. This is one of oldest kinds of light source known to humankind. Take some solid fat, meat trimmings or tallow, or left over fat globules from meat dishes. A match might be sufficient to start a flame, or a bit more heat might be needed. Take some sugar and treat as solid fat. Preheating might be needed, or start with chemical igniter or acid, but you can end up with a bad smelling carbon sponge. Mix sugar with potassium nitrate ("saltpeter", a source of oxygen) and sulfur in right proportions and you can make a weak form of gun powder.
| | Salt saves, salt kills.Written by Dr. Donald A. Miller
Salt is essential to health. This means sodium chloride and potassium chloride, with traces of other mineral salts. If you sweat a lot at work or play, lack of salt can cause "heat stroke". Salt can kill. Excess salt is probably biggest dietary health risk factor after fats, in any country that uses a lot of prepared foods. Avoid salty-fatty snack foods. Restrict salt added to foods during cooking. As a kid, I used to salt everything at meal time, often
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