Of course you want the white grapes, the seedless
green for your liver and rheumatic troubles, but if
catarrhal then the blue ones are best, and in most cases no
grapes at all should be used, particularly if hay feverish
or asthmatic.
No matter as to the amount of proteids, nitrogen, fats
and carbonates your dishes contain, if they lack the re-
quired salts and minerals which constitute the body of
the foodstuff, you may eat and eat ad infinitum and still
suffer from nervous disease that impairs stomach, liver,
kidneys, intestines, and lastly the general constitution, call-
ing to the surface all the germs of inherited tendencies
and of prenatal influence inviting disease upon disease.
A well-poised mind with a body under perfect control,
assimilating every morsel of food partaken of with thank-
fulness of heart, requires daily no more than one-third
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of a pound of wheat, raw or made into gruel, one pound
of milk or its equivalent of cheese in season, and a,
banana or other fruits, alternated by an equivalent of
vegetables in season. According to locality and conditions
such food would vary between five and ten cents a day.
He who makes greater demands than these simply has to
rustle to keep up imaginary appearances, but remember,
no man can look into your stomach, but they do see what
you wear on your back.
If food, as contended by science, gives strength and
vitality, how is it that in times of prosperity and plenty,
when mankind fairly gorges upon food, more diseased
conditions are brought forth, consequently greater dis-
satisfaction, more troubles, and more weakness and lazi-
ness are apparent than in times of hardship and when
food is scarce?
If it is true that the food we eat builds up our tissues,
makes our flesh and gives us blood, then if a man sub-
sists on a pound of pork a day, thus consuming three
hundred and sixty-five pounds of it in a year, retaining
the substance of the pork in his system, what is he at
the end of the year — man or hog?
If man perpetuates his body, consequently his life, by
subsisting on the animal kingdom, claiming to gain nour-
ishment and substance from the same, what does he
perpetuate and whom does he work, labor, rustle and
slave for?
If it be true that fish make brain, hogs build up nerve,
beef makes muscle, as scientists contend, then it won't be
necessary for us to advocate education but rather the
feeding of the faces desirous to reach their hearts' con-
tent through the stomach.
If beef builds muscle, why not stuflc on it instead of
going through physical culture and gymnastics, but if the
latter give muscle, what is the use in eating the beef?
If hog's flesh gives nerve, why take nerve tonics and
nervines to unnerve what the pork has built? Which is
which ?
Scientists claim a great deal for oysters and clams.
They are supposed to build brain cells. It would be well
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for them to fill up on clams and prove their brain cell
development by getting to work and earning an honest
living, creating commodities of life, or else keep their
clams shut.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Of course you want the white grapes, the seedless green for your liver and rheumatic troubles, but if catarrhal then the blue ones are best, and in most cases no grapes at all should be used, particularly if hay feverish or asthmatic.
No matter as to the amount of proteids, nitrogen, fats and carbonates your dishes contain, if they lack the required salts and minerals which constitute the body of the foodstuff, you may eat and eat ad infinitum and still suffer from nervous disease that impairs stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines, and lastly the general constitution, calling to the surface all the germs of inherited tendencies and of prenatal influence inviting disease upon disease.
A well-poised mind with a body under perfect control, assimilating every morsel of food partaken of with thankfulness of heart, requires daily no more than one-third
of a pound of wheat, raw or made into gruel, one pound of milk or its equivalent of cheese in season, and a, banana or other fruits, alternated by an equivalent of vegetables in season. According to locality and conditions such food would vary between five and ten cents a day. He who makes greater demands than these simply has to rustle to keep up imaginary appearances, but remember, no man can look into your stomach, but they do see what you wear on your back.
If food, as contended by science, gives strength and vitality, how is it that in times of prosperity and plenty, when mankind fairly gorges upon food, more diseased conditions are brought forth, consequently greater dissatisfaction, more troubles, and more weakness and laziness are apparent than in times of hardship and when food is scarce?
If it is true that the food we eat builds up our tissues, makes our flesh and gives us blood, then if a man subsists on a pound of pork a day, thus consuming three hundred and sixty-five pounds of it in a year, retaining the substance of the pork in his system, what is he at the end of the year — man or hog?
If man perpetuates his body, consequently his life, by subsisting on the animal kingdom, claiming to gain nourishment and substance from the same, what does he perpetuate and whom does he work, labor, rustle and slave for?
If it be true that fish make brain, hogs build up nerve, beef makes muscle, as scientists contend, then it won't be necessary for us to advocate education but rather the feeding of the faces desirous to reach their hearts' content through the stomach.
If beef builds muscle, why not stuff on it instead of going through physical culture and gymnastics, but if the latter give muscle, what is the use in eating the beef?
If hog's flesh gives nerve, why take nerve tonics and nervines to unnerve what the pork has built? Which is which ?
Scientists claim a great deal for oysters and clams. They are supposed to build brain cells. It would be well
for them to fill up on clams and prove their brain cell development by getting to work and earning an honest living, creating commodities of life, or else keep their clams shut.