Mazdaznan encyclopedia of dietetics and home cook book

Vegetables prove too heavy for you because you prepare them in water instead of cooking them in their own juice and additional oils or butter. Some vegetables should not be boiled. Because of too much starch they should be baked, and thus change them into dextrinous foods. Keep your feet clean, and keep them in good socks. Wear silken cloths next to the skin, then finest linen, then let up on it and take to lisle or mercerized stockings alone, leaving off all the cloths. Be sure that you rub between the toes each morning and at night. This will do more for your stomach and set its nature right than all your extensive studies in anatomy, in chemistry, and all the other twaddle and. blight. POINTERS TO INVALIDS. There are practically only three classes of invalids : First, those who are poisoned thru overaccumulation of acids caused by improper food selection and unscientifically compounded dishes. These must abstain from all fruits and begin to use vegetables containing largely earth salts — potato peels, chopped fine and cooked with butter in a double boiler until tender, adding onions cooked in butter and cream, will prove an ideal food. Second, those who are mineral poisoned or starch poisoned, owing to the use of too many mineral or salt foods and starchy dishes, lacking the acids for counteraction. Abstain from vegetables and prepared cereals. Use bananas mashed in cream, grated apples with cream or stewed in butter (but no water) ; also baked bananas or apples and barley gruels with butter and cream. Thirdly, those who have led a riotous living, by loading the system with acidulous foods at one time and mineral or salt foods excessively at another time until the stomach refuses to separate the foods and classify them intelligently for digestion and assimilation. Here a fast of thirty-six hours, every three to four days, becomes necessary, using a slice of lemon, pineapple, apple, orange or grapefruit to quench the thirst, living on small quantities of wheat gruel after fasts. Use onions boiled in butter and cream, seasoned with parsley and cayenne, for each meal. The secret of good health is not only moderation, but occasional abstinence. In either of the three cases it is always advisable to abstain from food until hungry and when hungry to make it a point to confine oneself to the class one favors. Fleshy people are apt to be salt or starch poisoned. Wiry people, acidulous and nervous people are bloodpoisoned, due to overaccumulation of salts and acids. HINTS TO SUFFERERS In the following pages we briefly state a few additional hints which will suffice the wise to use in connection with other advice given at will and cannot fail to assist Nature in assuring speedy recovery from all the ailments of the body, which are due to nothing less than ignorance in the selecting and use of proper food-stuffs and remedial agents in connection with food-stuffs so necessary to improve nutrition.