THE FOODS OF THE NEW EARTH 



will eat, each one must be the judge, but the 

 foregoing will give a relative basis upon which 

 to work, while the tabular statement will show 

 the composition of the material which is being 

 used. I think the consensus of opinion on the 

 part of those who are giving so much valuable 

 time to a study of this subject is that nearly 

 all men eat too much. It is, by no means, the 

 amount one eats or the amount of nutriment 

 in the foods themselves, necessarily, which de- 

 termines the food value, but the amount that 

 is assimilated ; and there can be no doubt that 

 sufficient can be assimilated for all bodily 

 needs from considerably less food than most 

 people eat. 



We may not pass from this question of the 

 foods of the New Earth without noting, as an 

 illustration of the comprehensiveness of the 

 work being done by scientific men, a series of 

 tests carried on by Professor Snyder, of the 

 University of Minnesota, in determining the 

 value of sugar as a food. Three men were 

 carried through two feeding tests, — one of 

 the tests with no sugar in the meals, one with 

 sugar. Every possible care was taken that the 

 actual influence exerted upon the system by 



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