Again, olive oil is so easily assimilated that it may be "eaten" through the skin. The cutaneous capillaries absorb it eagerly and carry it into the circulation, where it is manifested in a short time in the increased number of hemoglobins of the blood, resisting the process of cell destruction and building up new tissue. The value of olive oil is not in its heat- producing qualities, as is generally supposed, but it is primarily a blood-maker and a tissue-builder, and is specially called for in every form of mal- nutrition or malassimiJation. It also has, aside from its food value, a decidedly beneficial action upon the entire intestinal tract. In speaking of the benefits to be derived from the use of olive oil, I mean the absolutely pure oil, and not that adulterated with cotton seed or any similar substance. To guard against substitution and adulteration, insist on having one of the sev- eral leading brands of California olive oil. CHAPTER XII Vagaries Many vagaries are prevalent regarding our diet, what it should be, and what it should not be. It would seem that a man can live on any wholesome food which he likes and can digest, and which has not too much water in it for him to get his day's fuel out of three or four poimds. The source of a people's food does not seema to make the slightest difiference in its mental and! moral qualities. The Eskimos, who live entirely ^ on meat and often eat ten pounds at a meal, are the most peaceful of mankind. The Armenian massacres, however, the Balkan atrocities, and J the Russian pogroms are the work of those who,J are practically vegetarians. The Yale teams train on beef and mutton, Thel Greek athletes, who were equally good men, 1 trained on barley, figs, and olive oil. In the old days the messenger service from Madras to Bombay and Calcutta was by means i of men on foot, who did sixty miles for a day's work and kept it up, a thousand miles at . stretch, on a diet of rice. TRUE FOOD VALVES 57 In the race of the allied armies to Pekin, the Japanese soldiers fairly ran away from the Euro- pean regiments, and that on a diet of boiled rice and dried fish. In China a tea-carrying coolie, for a day's work, packs a hundred and fifty pounds over forty miles of road. His diet also is of rice. The famous porters of Asia Minor walk off with a quarter of a ton on their backs, and nothing but bread and dried fruit in their insides. The Chilean miners, who are judged among the strongest laborers in the world, do their work on boiled beans and bread. The winner of the great race from Dresden to Berlin, in 1902, was a corresponding clerk, thirty years of age, who had been tied to his desk nine hours a day, and had done most of his walking on Sundays. He had been a vegetarian for ten years; and for six months before the race had left off eating eggs, milk, cheese, and butter as well. His training diet was two meals a day of crackers, bread, marmalade, fruit juice, Quaker oats, nut butter, and bromose. The corresponding stunt of the British Isles is to walk from Land's End to John o' Groats, a distance of nine hundred and eight miles. The last record for this feat was held by a young 58 TRUE FOOD VALUES workman named Allen, who covered the distance in a little less than seventeen days, and did one himdred and forty miles in the last two. Allen is a man somewhat radical in his views, who sleeps out of doors, and feeds on bread, oatmeal, and vegetables, with a little fruit. i The men nurses of the Battle Creek Sanita- ; rium, all of whom are vegetarians, were matched in an endurance test against some student ath- letes for holding the arm extended horizontally at full length. The nurses came out distinctly ahead. Several went beyond one hour, while one stopped at three hours and twenty minutes, more from boredom than from fatigue.

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Again, olive oil is so easily assimilated that it may be "eaten" through the skin. The cutaneous capillaries absorb it eagerly and carry it into the circulation, where it is manifested in a short time in the increased number of hemoglobins of the blood, resisting the process of cell destruction and building up new tissue. The value of olive oil is not in its heatproducing qualities, as is generally supposed, but it is primarily a blood-maker and a tissue-builder, and is specially called for in every form of malnutrition or malassimilation. It also has, aside from its food value, a decidedly beneficial action upon the entire intestinal tract. In speaking of the benefits to be derived from the use of olive oil, I mean the absolutely pure oil, and not that adulterated with cotton seed or any similar substance. To guard against substitution and adulteration, insist on having one of the several leading brands of California olive oil. CHAPTER XII Vagaries Many vagaries are prevalent regarding our diet, what it should be, and what it should not be. It would seem that a man can live on any wholesome food which he likes and can digest, and which has not too much water in it for him to get his day's fuel out of three or four poimds. The source of a people's food does not seema to make the slightest difiference in its mental and! moral qualities. The Eskimos, who live entirely ^ on meat and often eat ten pounds at a meal, are the most peaceful of mankind. The Armenian massacres, however, the Balkan atrocities, and J the Russian pogroms are the work of those who,J are practically vegetarians. The Yale teams train on beef and mutton, Thel Greek athletes, who were equally good men, 1 trained on barley, figs, and olive oil. In the old days the messenger service from Madras to Bombay and Calcutta was by means i of men on foot, who did sixty miles for a day's work and kept it up, a thousand miles at . stretch, on a diet of rice. In the race of the allied armies to Pekin, the Japanese soldiers fairly ran away from the European regiments, and that on a diet of boiled rice and dried fish. In China a tea-carrying coolie, for a day's work, packs a hundred and fifty pounds over forty miles of road. His diet also is of rice. The famous porters of Asia Minor walk off with a quarter of a ton on their backs, and nothing but bread and dried fruit in their insides. The Chilean miners, who are judged among the strongest laborers in the world, do their work on boiled beans and bread. The winner of the great race from Dresden to Berlin, in 1902, was a corresponding clerk, thirty years of age, who had been tied to his desk nine hours a day, and had done most of his walking on Sundays. He had been a vegetarian for ten years; and for six months before the race had left off eating eggs, milk, cheese, and butter as well. His training diet was two meals a day of crackers, bread, marmalade, fruit juice, Quaker oats, nut butter, and bromose. The corresponding stunt of the British Isles is to walk from Land's End to John o' Groats, a distance of nine hundred and eight miles. The last record for this feat was held by a young workman named Allen, who covered the distance in a little less than seventeen days, and did one himdred and forty miles in the last two. Allen is a man somewhat radical in his views, who sleeps out of doors, and feeds on bread, oatmeal, and vegetables, with a little fruit. i The men nurses of the Battle Creek Sanita- ; rium, all of whom are vegetarians, were matched in an endurance test against some student athletes for holding the arm extended horizontally at full length. The nurses came out distinctly ahead. Several went beyond one hour, while one stopped at three hours and twenty minutes, more from boredom than from fatigue.

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