The Secret of a Much Longer Life and More Pleaure in Living it ...1906 - Longevity - 127 pages |
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Page 81 - That it is easily possible to sustain life on the products of the vegetable kingdom, needs no demonstration for physiologists, even if a majority of the human race were not constantly engaged in demonstrating it, and my researches show not only that it is possible, but that it is infinitely preferable in every way, and produces superior powers both of mind and body.
Page 81 - The teeth of man have not the slightest resemblance to those of the carnivorous animals, except that their enamel is confined to the external surface. He possesses, indeed, teeth called canine, but they do not exceed the level of the others, and are obviously unsuited to the purposes which the corresponding teeth execute in carnivorous! animals.
Page 81 - ... grounds. It is not, I think, going too far to say, that every fact connected with human organization goes to prove that man was originally formed a frugivorous animal, and therefore probably tropical, or nearly so, in his geographical situation.
Page 110 - Around us, on every hand, we see melancholy illustrations of this terrible fact, in the hundreds of tuberculous and scrofulous children to be found in every large town...
Page 48 - ... The chyle is renewed from the chyme ; and ultimately, from the food and drink. The food and drink, which nourish the system, must, at the same time, be the primary source of the calcareous earthy matter which enters into the composition of the chyme, the chyle, and the blood; and which is ultimately deposited in all the tissues, membranes, vessels, and solids of the body— producing old age, decrepitude, and
Page 79 - ... recognition of any kind to those who show no disposition or no ability to do anything better in the line of preparation for their work. INSTRUCTION AND DISCIPLINE. The report under this head will be found to embrace several important recommendations. Some of these will provoke discussion, but most of them are of such a nature as to commend themselves to every thoughtful person. The report opens a broad field of inquiry, which must of necessity receive more attention as the wants and necessities...
Page 81 - Anthropoids and all the quadrumana derive their alimentation from fruits, grains, and other succulent vegetable substances, and the strict analogy which exists between the structures of these animals and that of man clearly demonstrates his frugivorous nature.
Page 105 - Cantani recommends and Haig deprecates. This is, indeed, what he says:— " In eggs, for instance, I have been unable to find any uric acid or other members of the xanthine group, such as I have found in meat, and yet their steady and graduated administration invariably brings about a large rise in the excretion of uric acid, and all the evil effects of its passage through the blood, so that I have had to exclude them entirely from my diet.
Page 106 - ... replies to his own queries : " I look upon all these things as serious and widespread diseases of the human race ; and as I am not one of those who believe that Nature herself, if she had a free hand, would tend to destroy us, but rather to preserve what is good and eliminate what is evil ; and, further, cannot believe that the tendency to these evils is part of the ground plan of Nature's work, or that the unalterable bias is to have headache, epilepsy, mental depression, mania, and their results...
Page 24 - I cast my first vote for President of the United States in the year 1816. I am told that under a decision of one o...