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and coincidents, and partly because of our own efforts 

 to find the answer to the riddle of good health, we 

 finally arrived at the conviction that most of our ail- 

 ments, and probably most of the ailments of man- 

 kind, were caused by wrong foods and incorrect eat- 

 ing habits. I remember how amusing this idea sounded 

 the first time it was propounded to me. Mrs. Borsodi 

 and I, happening to meet Hereward Carrington, just 

 as we were on our way to lunch in the city, asked 

 him to join us. 



"I'm sorry," he said, "but I seem to be catching 

 cold, so I am eating nothing at all today." 



I looked at him with astonishment. The old adage 

 about feeding a cold and starving a fever came into 

 my mind. What in the world, I thought, could eating 

 have to do with a cold? "Join us, anyway," I said. 

 "You can watch us eat, and the sight of food may 

 tempt you to order something yourself. And besides, 

 I'm curious to know upon what theory you cut out 

 eating when you have a cold." 



Carrington accepted the invitation and in the 

 course of that luncheon Mrs. Borsodi and I listened 

 for the first time to a disinterested exponent of the 

 theory that improper eating is the cause of most dis- 

 ease. Up to that time I had always dismissed the idea 

 as the vaporing of vegetarian and physical culture 

 faddists. But I was by no means convinced by what 

 Carrington said. I still argued valiantly for the ortho- 

 dox medical explanation of disease in terms of germs. 

 The luncheon failed to convert us to the extreme posi- 



