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must be subjected to important changes before it 

 contributes to sustaining life in protoplasm. In 

 these several processes there is a great percentage 

 of waste or inefficiency. We are accustomed to 

 think, of man as the highest act of creation — the 

 most perfect of animals, and it comes as a great 

 shock to realize that when considered from the 

 modern standpoint he is scarcely 15 per cent, effi- 

 cient in his metabolic processes. 



Some natural inferences follow : First, we must 

 expect that remedial and corrective changes in our 

 diet will yield slow and small results. There is 

 no way of revolutionizing these fundamental proc- 

 esses. No one has invented any special food 

 that sets aside processes or enables the body to 

 secure a special amount of energy. These facts 

 furnish the basis for correctly valuing all special, 

 patented foods whether prepared to nourish the 

 brain or make brawn. They don't do it any more 

 than ordinary foods, and, in most instances, much 

 less. The recognition and application of these 

 principles would save mankind a great deal of 

 money. 



Secondly, we cannot claim to be educated and be 

 ignorant of such basal relations. Education is 

 constantly aiming to adjust man to his environ- 

 ment; while our wilful ignorance contributes to a 

 mal-adjustment in which our efficiency never 

 reaches the high plane it should. There does not 



