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human nourishment is the possession of the particular kind! of protein 

 which the body requires for building its muscles, nerves, glands and 

 other living structures. 



The proteins of cereals and legumes are incouiplete and not capable 

 of supporting life indefinitely, but the protein of nuts contains all the 

 "building stones" required for the construction of the "house we live 

 in. 



This fact, a recent discovery of the nutrition laboratory, is a 

 scientific confirmation of the view long held by naturalists and paleon- 

 tologists that nuts supplemented by fruits, tender leaves and shoots 

 and succulent roots, constituted the food supply, of the earth's primitive 

 inhabitants. 



The protein of nuts is of the same high quality as that of milk and 

 is in no way inferior to the protein of meats. Tlie delicious fats and 

 oils of nuts are the most digestible of all substances of this class. 

 Taken in combinntion with the other elements of the nut, they form a 

 fine emulsion which is readilj^ absorbed without producing the di- 

 gestive disturbances which frequently arise from the presence of irri- 

 tating fatty acids which are practically always present in ordinary 

 butter and other animal fats in common use. 



A remarkable property of nut milk in which it has shown itself to 

 be superior to cow's milk is in promoting the secretion of milk in 

 nursing mothers. This property of nut milk was noted fully 30 years 

 affo, within two or three vears after Malted Nuts was first made, and 

 its value for this purpose has become known to the profession to such 

 an extent that it is regularly prescribed by many physicians for nursing 

 mothers who need assistance of this sort. 



Dr. Hoobler, of Detroit, published some years ago the results of a 

 careful study of the comparative value of different foods and different 

 dietaries for promoting the secretion of milk and found nuts to be 

 superior to all others, even not exceptiiig cow's milk. 



Nuts are a form of nutriment especially adapted by nature for 

 human sustenance, whereas cow's milk is a product adapted^ to the 

 nourishment of calves whose nutritive requirements differ from those 

 of the human infant. Nut milk is thus capable of rendering a double 



