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Quest. But children can eat four to twenty apples- 

 and still eat just as much dinner? 



Standard diets are made up of what we need, not what 

 we want. 



Mr. "Whitney : As to the number of apples, I think four 

 is a conservative estimate. I would advocate eating: two 

 apples either before or after each meal, six apples for the 

 average normal person. Better substitute apples for cab- 

 bage. 



Quest. Have apple seeds ever been analyzed? 



No, but the seeds of all fruits are more concentrated 

 than the fruit itself. 



Quest. If a healthy person were to eat freely of ap- 

 ples in the evening would it have any detrimental effect? 



Not if the person was in normal condition. 



Is it all right to eat the peel of the apple? 



If you can do it and it is clean, it is all right. 



Quest. Regarding the amount and number of apples: 

 I want to get at the amount that the ordinary individual 

 might take and keep in good health? 



The only limit, I should say, would be the pocket book. 

 It seems to me that the American people are more careful of 

 feeding their stock to attain a certain result than they are 

 in feeding their own families. 



Quest. Does the apple aid in the digestion of other 

 foods when taken at the beginning of a meal; for instance, 

 in the morning would two or three apples aid in the di- 

 gestion of other foods? 



The use of the apple in that respect would be the same 

 as a glass of cool water. 



Quest. I would like to ask how many in this hall have 

 eaten an apple today. (About three-quarters had done so.) 



Mr. I have not listened to a lecture like this 



before. He would be a good physician who could tell us 

 all the effects of fruit on the human system. I think that 

 the medicinal value of an apple is not understood today. A 

 iew years ago, I was confined in a city office and had only 

 a half hour at noon ; eating hurriedly as I was obliged to 

 brought on severe liver trouble for which I took a great 

 deal of medicine. I at last decided that I did not need any 

 more medicine but began to use apples, and in a short time 

 was cured. There is more medicinal value in one apple than 

 in a whole shelf of drugs from a drug store. I have enjoyed 



