Dieting consists in abstaining from certain foods, and it is very necessary to follow a hygienic diet in certain diseases. Every mistress of the house, and also the cook should know how, and what to do in an emergency - case. -■ Meat shortens people’s lives by decades. I mean that people who wish to live a century, must not eat meat — especially the highly proteid meats. The whole secret of perpetual youth, is a complete supply of food, to all the cells of the body combined, with ridding the cells of all waste matter. To accomplish this, you must cut out food excess proteids, and cut down cereals, including bread, and eat less sodium or common salt. Second: eat plenteously of food containing potassium salts. You will find them in all kinds of salads. Water cress is one of the best elixirs of life. Consume more • organid acids, which -are best obtained from grapes, raisins, oranges, apples and citrons. Acids remove — 490 — HYGIENE waste from the arteries, soften them, and reopen the blood vessels. Any man showing signs of old age, should take three months of this diet, and he would become young again. Lastly eat garlic and onions, the greatest intestinal cell antiseptic in the world, with¬ out being destructive like drugs. (Read each article on vegetables.) They will cure the most malignanw skin and blood' diseases known. Two ounces of garlic daily is the greatest preventative of old age. Another great fault of mankind is, that all drink too much. I do not mean alcoholic beverages, but too mucn coffee, tea, milk, besides beer, wine and spirits. It is not' what is drunk, but how much. Too much fluid lessens a man's power of resistance. For instance things growing wet, develop rapidly and then die. Hook at the water lily. Things growing in dry places take longer to mature, are much healthier, and live longer. Look at the oak. The same principles apply to human beings. I am not for prohibition — I believe in wine and beer. Every man and woman of more than fifty should have a glass of wine daily; it dilates the capillaries of the body, preventing the closing of the blood vessels. A glass of beer daily helps a person after forty. Hard drink is wholly bad. I am against alcohol in any form, for any one under forty; it is unnecessary. Getting intoxicated once a month does not hurt according to Raspail, the great’ French doctor, eating the greatest steak once a week does not hurt— but the steady drinker and meat eater wears down the body's vitality, fills his cells with waste matter, and hardens the arteries. Georges Clemenceau, the “Old Tiger of France”, owes his wonderful mentality and activity to his diet of vegetables and milk, and in going to bed early, and arising early. So it is very necessary to follow a practical diet, to aid or cure certain diseases, in following the se different culinary preparations. ALIMENTATION FOR CHILD The new born baby only nurses and sleeps, and only attention is paid to that during the first few months. GANCEL’S CULINARY ENCYCLOPEDIA

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Dieting consists in abstaining from certain foods, and it is very necessary to follow a hygienic diet in certain diseases. Every mistress of the house, and also the cook should know how, and what to do in an emergency - case. -■ Meat shortens people’s lives by decades. I mean that people who wish to live a century, must not eat meat — especially the highly proteid meats. The whole secret of perpetual youth, is a complete supply of food, to all the cells of the body combined, with ridding the cells of all waste matter. To accomplish this, you must cut out food excess proteids, and cut down cereals, including bread, and eat less sodium or common salt. Second: eat plenteously of food containing potassium salts. You will find them in all kinds of salads. Water cress is one of the best elixirs of life. Consume more • organid acids, which -are best obtained from grapes, raisins, oranges, apples and citrons. Acids remove — 490 — HYGIENE waste from the arteries, soften them, and reopen the blood vessels. Any man showing signs of old age, should take three months of this diet, and he would become young again. Lastly eat garlic and onions, the greatest intestinal cell antiseptic in the world, with¬ out being destructive like drugs. (Read each article on vegetables.) They will cure the most malignant skin and blood diseases known. Two ounces of garlic daily is the greatest preventative of old age. Another great fault of mankind is, that all drink too much. I do not mean alcoholic beverages, but too mucn coffee, tea, milk, besides beer, wine and spirits. It is not what is drunk, but how much. Too much fluid lessens a man's power of resistance. For instance things growing wet, develop rapidly and then die. Hook at the water lily. Things growing in dry places take longer to mature, are much healthier, and live longer. Look at the oak. The same principles apply to human beings. I am not for prohibition — I believe in wine and beer. Every man and woman of more than fifty should have a glass of wine daily; it dilates the capillaries of the body, preventing the closing of the blood vessels. A glass of beer daily helps a person after forty. Hard drink is wholly bad. I am against alcohol in any form, for any one under forty; it is unnecessary. Getting intoxicated once a month does not hurt according to Raspail, the great’ French doctor, eating the greatest steak once a week does not hurt— but the steady drinker and meat eater wears down the body's vitality, fills his cells with waste matter, and hardens the arteries. Georges Clemenceau, the “Old Tiger of France”, owes his wonderful mentality and activity to his diet of vegetables and milk, and in going to bed early, and arising early. So it is very necessary to follow a practical diet, to aid or cure certain diseases, in following the se different culinary preparations. ALIMENTATION FOR CHILD The new born baby only nurses and sleeps, and only attention is paid to that during the first few months.

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