12 THE WONDERFUL HOUSE THAT JACK HAS 



Pork, lard, and other comparatively inexpensive foods 

 all contain much fat. They are not easily digested 

 by some, however, and it is often a mistake for such 

 people to use them as foods to any large extent. 



More fat should be eaten in cold weather than in 

 the warm months, because our bodies need more heat. 

 For this reason, inhabitants of the frigid zones eat 

 what seems to us a prodigious amount of fatty foods, 

 often several pounds of fat meat, tallow, or whale 

 blubber in a day. For the opposite reason, people 

 living in tropical regions eat very little fat, but much 

 fruit, because the latter is cooling. Strange as it may 

 seem, the Eskimo enjoys his whale blubber or pure 

 tallow as we should broiled steak or roast turkey, and 

 even visitors to the Arctic regions soon relish such 

 fatty foods. 



Dr. Kane, the famous Arctic explorer, says : 

 "Our journeys have taught us the wisdom of the 

 Eskimo's appetite, and there are few among us who 

 do not relish a slice of raw blubber or a chunk of 

 frozen walrus meat." A native of the frozen north 

 would no doubt regard a breakfast of oranges and 

 bananas with the same disgust that a dweller in the 

 tropics would sit down to a lunch of tallow candles. 

 The appetite of both is regulated by the need of the 

 body for heat. Try to think of a good reason why 

 men working at hard physical labor need more fat at 

 all times of the year than those whose occupation 

 requires but little exertion of the muscles. 



