From one to two glasses of cool water should be drunk at each of these meals.
Mastication of every atom should be complete.
Hurried eating is the most prolific cause of fermentation. Fermentation is the cause of intestinal gas, sour stomach and indigestion, also constipation and torpid liver.
Avoid stimulants such as tea, coffee, tobacco, beer, or liquors. These things excite heart activity, which causes excessive body-heat.
Avoid sweets, especially sweet soda-fountain drinks. Sugar is composed largely of carbon, and carbon is one of Nature's greatest heat-makers.
Confine the diet largely to semi-acid fruits, fresh vegetables, green salads, milk, eggs, nuts, and a very limited quantity of bread and cereal products.
Cereal starch is the most difficult of all carbohydrate matter to digest.
Drink an abundance of pure water at meals and between meals.
Avoid all mixed-up, sweetened and charged water. There is nothing better than plain spring or distilled water.
Do not eat too many things at the same meal. Three or four articles are sufficient.
Avoid meat of all kinds, and eat a very limited quantity of fats.
By all means do not overeat. Every atom of food taken into the body that is not used must be cast off at a tremendous expense of energy. The casting-off process is what we call dis-ease.
Every housewife and mother should know enough about the chemistry of food to avoid serving at the same meal things which are chemically inharmonious.
If these simple laws were observed, sunstrokes and heat prostrations would be almost unheard of.
Summer is the time when Nature is rebuilding and revitalizing all forms of animal life; it is also the time when she is producing all of the material with which to do this building in its best and purest form, therefore summer should be the time when people are at their best. The reason they are not is because they do not understand the simple laws that govern human nutrition.
_TO BUILD UP SEXUAL VITALITY AND MAINTAIN IT_
Very ripe berries, with sugar Rare omelet, rolled in whipped cream and grated nuts Whole wheat bread or boiled whole wheat Rich milk Wheat bran
Two or three eggs, whipped; add a pint of fresh milk, a dash of sugar, and a flavor of pineapple juice; drink slowly