DIGESTION 213 



Could the amount eaten be reduced to the actual needs of tissue-repair 

 (and in case of children, of tissue-growth), decided benefit might accrue 

 to that large class of persons who take too little exercise and to that other 

 large class whose nervous systems have become too unstable for normal 

 "civilized" living. Persons of these sorts commonly suffer from in- 

 testinal atony, and the resulting too complete absorption of these putre- 

 factive products may be the still unsuspected source of much disease. 



