Dr. Hindhede, the Danish phy-biologist, is one of the leading evelutionavies in. this. matter nutrition, His order of value ix (1) vitamins, or essential food, factors, (2) mineral salts, (3) carbohydrates, (4) fat, (6) proteins He has also. found by practical experiment that the quantity proteins a day cane safely Feiieed toa Tittle less. than one fugee (20 grammes), and. these proteins need. not be "supplied ment, but may be of vegetable origin. "Certainly we need not all our proteins from flesh foods Once a day is quite enough to eat meat, especially during the summer Excess of flesh food leads to pute faction in the intestines and favours Intestinal disease. Anyone who prefers to go without ment entirely fan do s0 with perfect safety pro-Vided a sufficiency of other protein-containing food is taken.
Tt is interesting to note the diet this distinguished physiologist for many past years, but T fear] not_many of ux would submit. to it in Shanghai:-—Breakfast.—Barley porridge, with sugar and skimmed nik, Mid-day meal.—Vegetable soup, potatoes, pancakes and stewed fruit, "Eveninje' meal—Wholemeal bread, potato salad "and butter. The whole cost is about 7d. a day'
There ix a saying "God sent the food ard the Devil sent the cook."
We should eat as much of our food fas we can pure and raw, as Nature ave it to us. When we have eaten excess of overcooked and highly xeasoned. food we usually sweep it away with an aperient and. start the vicious circle once again. Raw,
ost efficient and harmless intestinal fruit and lemon juice are the disinfectants and natural aperients. Raw fruit is neither too indigestible nor too acid for children if it is properly chewed, The act chewing of slightly acid fruit stimulates the flow of the salivary digestive juices ani cleans the teeth and gums.
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