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cereals and vegetables, we have no need of a large extra allow- 

 ance. Bread, the staff of life, the mainstay of humanity from 

 earliest date, is so important an article of diet to all, that the 

 systematic extraction of the brain-sustaining phosphates, leaving 

 it little better than starch, calls for an entire change. While our 

 population may increase at the rate of 100%, brain and nerve 

 troubles are increasing at the rate of 600%. The immediate 

 cause is a lack of brain nutrition. Primarily the lack is in the 

 bread we eat. The most valuable part of the grain lying in the 

 outer covering. A brain cannot act with vigor unless fed. Brain 

 starvation is the one cause of the craving for stimulants that one 

 class have to meet. "Tell me what you eat and drink and I will 

 tell you what you are" is not a very old or far-fetched adage. 

 Edison says, "He who eats rice only, thinks rice only." Work- 

 ing people have by hard experience, learned certain dietetic 

 usages. Bread and milk, pork and beans, meat and potatoes, 

 chicken with rice or dumplings, eggs on toast, oatmeal with 

 cream, for thin workers have the best results and they have some- 

 thing like the right combination. While faulty, viewed from a 

 scientific standpoint, they are preferable to those dishes con- 

 cocted to tempt the appetite because they taste so nicely. W^hile 

 advising the cutting down of our meat-eating some will object, 

 bringing the old Hebrews as an example of a sturdy, healthy 

 race of flesh-eating people. At first thought, it seems that is 

 true. Quite the reverse is the fact. Their diet, like that of all 

 Orientals, was simple, light and mainly of vegetable origin, the 

 staple being bread, made from the whole grain or from rye with 

 the flour of millet, beans or lentils added, making a perfect food. 



Fruit was abundant, also vegetables, with honey and oil. They 

 were pretty good hygienists from necessity. We have here as 

 article No. i under Living for Health, to eat less food, of bet- 

 ter combination, masticate thoroughly, drinking only pure water. 



New England people can well follow the last prescription. 

 From every hillside bubbles and sparkles pure, sweet water. 

 Here and there may be found mineral waters of great value. 

 The time was not so long since the people were drinking spiritu- 

 ous liquors as an every-day beverage. We have had to take our 

 temperance reform by installments. At first it provided for 

 breweries for those who were reforming, next in order was a 

 cutting off of all beer and cider-making, but prescribed strong 



