LIFE PERPETUAL, 757 



maintaining the blood pure. Impure blood is the cause of nearly all 

 disease, for the natural powers will destroy disease germs that 'find 

 their way into the system if the blood is pure. 



Eating too much is the chief cause of impure blood, next is the 

 eating of improper and improperly cooked food. Third is anger or 

 violent thoughts of any kind, worry or depression. It has been sci- 

 entifically demonstrated that anger poisons the blood both in men 

 and in animals. Unwholesome thought as well as unwholesome 

 food vitiates the blood. The first step, therefore, toward attaining 

 constant health is to form habits of right thoughts, the second to eat 

 sparingly of proper food, third to breathe deeply of pure air. 



Habits of right thought are formed by spending some time, ton 

 minutes will help, an hour were better, in concentrating thought, 

 the whole body at the time being relaxed. All thought is power' 

 but calm, deliberate thought is most effective. Think of joy and a 

 feeling of gladness steals over you. Think of health and ypti uncon- 

 sciously begin to feel more comfortable, think of strength and you 

 are already stronger. 



As to food one needs to be guided by circumstances. Avoid 

 sudden changes. Health and strength are promoted by avoiding 

 meat but if accustomed to eating meat discard it little by little by 

 substituting nuts, cheese and fruits. 



No being possessing animal life subsists on cooked food, except 

 man, and there is no being so unhealthy as man, 



The ideal diet is nuts and fruits, preferably in the raw state, not 

 green or overripe. This is known as the fruitarian diet that Adam 

 and Eve lived on in the Garden of Eden. The vegetarian diet is in- 

 termediate between this and the animal diet. Vegetarian diet is 

 better than animal but is not ideal, containing an excess of waste 

 matter for the system to handle. Some people say they cannot eat 

 fruit, but this is simply because they have taken it in connection with 

 indigestible pastry or mixed with conflicting cream or sugar. Fruit 

 should be eaten without either sugar or cream. 



The ideal food for maintaining health and beauty, as already 

 stated, is nuts and fruits as the exclusive diet. Prof. Gaze, while 

 teaching classes all day and lecturing every evening at Los Angeles, 

 Cal., lived for two months, January and February, on absolutely 

 nothing else but nuts and ripe fruits. He took to this diet because 

 he was then quite indisposed. At the end of the first month he 

 found he had lost eight pounds in weight. At the end of the second 

 month he found that he had regained the eight pounds in full and de- 

 clared that he never felt better in all his life than at the end of those 

 two months, nor had he ever had harder or more exacting work. 



Exercise and activity are absolutely essential to life and health. 

 It is a mistake to "retire" because of age. There is no "age," for 

 the body is but little over one year old in any event and it is the 

 thought that makes you become incapable. 



Captain Diamond of San Francisco was 107 years old in 1903. 



