The digestion and assimilation of foods does not depend
upon our knowledge of the organs of the body nor upon
chemical compounds of foods, but the selection of foods
as nature furnishes them.
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MASTICATION THE KEY TO DIGESTION.
Thoro mastication of food insures a greater percentage
in digestion and assimilation. Thus masticate thoroly,
whether it be solids or liquids.
In masticating our food well the absorbents of the
mouth, tongue and palate concenter all of the aromatic or
spirit substances of foods, thereby aiding and increasing
the insalivation of foods for digestive action.
What you miss to absorb by virtue of mastication you
never get after the food reaches the stomach. Food
proves a vitalizer and energizer only then when absorbed
by continued and well-directed exercises of the jaws.
The sense of taste, harmonized and in common with all
the senses directed by reason, is the guide unto selection,
mastication, digestion and assimilation of foods which will
prove of benefit and wholesomeness to the body, mind,
soul and spirit in general.
We must be able to taste the food with our mouth and
retain such taste until the food, by mastication, becomes
tasteless. It then may be swallowed and left to the
stomach to draw from it whatever soil substance it may
retain for metallization.
It is not the stomach, liver and kidneys that need our
consideration, but the mouth, which is the feeding station
of our organism. Masticate your food to such an extent
that the fluids furthering digestion will form readily and
assimilation is insured.
Thru proper mastication you become thoughtful, and
as like begets like, you retain the good thought of the
food.
FOOD FOR THE MIND.
If digestion is poor, eat slow but sure.
Slowly and thoroly masticated food saves one-half of the
digestive operation and insures tenacity to life.
The root of all the evil to the stomach is that man
won't masticate his food with bliss.
Take time to eat and salivate your food. It saves
digestion, makes health and turns complexion good.
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In a fair state of health, whole wheat bread and milk
or whole wheat gruel and milk is the cheapest and most
nutritive fare, assuring a clear complexion and .a witty
mind.
You can't drink water on top of a fruit dinner. If you
do, then you have to make another experience.
There are men and women who can eat and drink any-
thing, and if you were to follow suit it would be like
an idiot seeing a fire-eater, go home and fill his mouth
with hot coals and then die.
Keep away from soda and mineral or charged waters
in general. Use fruits and use them freely. After a
good, frugal fruit dinner do not forget to take a morsel
of bread.
The cause of defective teeth and a poorly developed
bone structure is due to the lack of phosphates, nitrates
and salts which are supplied largely thru food compounded
from grains. Bolted flour preparations lack all the essen-
tial ingredients.
''Not what entereth the body defileth man but what
becomes of it." That is just it — what becomes of it or
what we digest of it. If we do not digest it then it not
only turns into waste, but taxes the digestive organs to
an extent, defiling the body with disease-breeding germs.
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Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
The digestion and assimilation of foods does not depend upon our knowledge of the organs of the body nor upon chemical compounds of foods, but the selection of foods as nature furnishes them.
MASTICATION THE KEY TO DIGESTION.
Thoro mastication of food insures a greater percentage in digestion and assimilation. Thus masticate thoroly, whether it be solids or liquids.
In masticating our food well the absorbents of the mouth, tongue and palate concenter all of the aromatic or spirit substances of foods, thereby aiding and increasing the insalivation of foods for digestive action.
What you miss to absorb by virtue of mastication you never get after the food reaches the stomach. Food proves a vitalizer and energizer only then when absorbed by continued and well-directed exercises of the jaws.
The sense of taste, harmonized and in common with all the senses directed by reason, is the guide unto selection, mastication, digestion and assimilation of foods which will prove of benefit and wholesomeness to the body, mind, soul and spirit in general.
We must be able to taste the food with our mouth and retain such taste until the food, by mastication, becomes tasteless. It then may be swallowed and left to the stomach to draw from it whatever soil substance it may retain for metallization.
It is not the stomach, liver and kidneys that need our consideration, but the mouth, which is the feeding station of our organism. Masticate your food to such an extent that the fluids furthering digestion will form readily and assimilation is insured.
Thru proper mastication you become thoughtful, and as like begets like, you retain the good thought of the food.
FOOD FOR THE MIND.
If digestion is poor, eat slow but sure.
Slowly and thoroly masticated food saves one-half of the digestive operation and insures tenacity to life.
The root of all the evil to the stomach is that man won't masticate his food with bliss.
Take time to eat and salivate your food. It saves digestion, makes health and turns complexion good.
In a fair state of health, whole wheat bread and milk or whole wheat gruel and milk is the cheapest and most nutritive fare, assuring a clear complexion and a witty mind.
You can't drink water on top of a fruit dinner. If you do, then you have to make another experience.
There are men and women who can eat and drink anything, and if you were to follow suit it would be like an idiot seeing a fire-eater, go home and fill his mouth with hot coals and then die.
Keep away from soda and mineral or charged waters in general. Use fruits and use them freely. After a good, frugal fruit dinner do not forget to take a morsel of bread.
The cause of defective teeth and a poorly developed bone structure is due to the lack of phosphates, nitrates and salts which are supplied largely thru food compounded from grains. Bolted flour preparations lack all the essential ingredients.
''Not what entereth the body defileth man but what becomes of it." That is just it — what becomes of it or what we digest of it. If we do not digest it then it not only turns into waste, but taxes the digestive organs to an extent, defiling the body with disease-breeding germs.