Anne Shriber, N. ¥.
The charm of health and beauty
food so as to excite intestinal action, without which
the food does not move along fast enough to prevent
decay and the absorption of its poisons. This cellulose
also retains much water, which aids in the proper
absorption of food material in the intestinal tract,
and assists in the elimination of waste.
Green vegetables are rich in iron, which is the
material used in the building of new red bldod cells
and which protects us from weakness, lassitude,
shortness of breath, depleted blood, and consequent
anemia. Their lime content contributes to the
building of strong teeth and well-developed bones,
also giving tone to the muscles and a normal function-
ing of the heart and blood stream.
One of the foremost advantages in relation to the
liberal use of fresh vegetables and fruits as food,
is the fact that, when they are absorbed into the
system, their salts are alkaline in reaction; that is,
they neutralize the acid-waste of the blood and tissue,
thus they counteract or neutralize ‘acidosis,’ or the
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acid condition in the
system always present
in rheumatism, gout,
toxemia, kidney trou-
ble, etc. This makes
fruits and vegetables
especially valuable,
forawell-balanced diet
must supply in liberal
proportion the alka-
line-reacting foods
that offset the acid-
forming foods as well
as the acidity caused
by conditions of dis-
ease.
“No PARKING”
HE newer light
on nutrition puts
great emphasis on the
fact that if we would
maintain a high de-
gree of immunity to
disease, the body must
be properly nourished.
The resistance of our
physical organism to
disease does not lie in
its surplus fat, which
is very often mistaken
for health, but it de-
pends on the condition
of the body fluids.
Through the blood
stream, the food we
eat is carried in solu-
tion to all parts of the
body, and when this
food contains the prop-
er amount of mineral
salts, organic acids, and vitamins, the blood becomes
strongly alkaline, and as a result the accumulated
body wastes and disease germs are neutralized or
destroyed, leaving the tissues clean and perfect.
The dietary highway should be guarded by the
slogan, “No Parking,” or ‘No Stopping on the
Pavement.” Its one-way traffic should be kept
moving on regular schedule. Stoppage along the
way, due to congestion, especially at the exit, is
often the cause of disastrous wreckage to the health.
Constipation’s poison pest is the most common,
and possibly the most unconquered and funda-
mentally most crippling, of human maladies. A
great secret of health is internal cleanliness, by keep-
ing the food route free from stagnation.
Human beings cannot thrive when subjected to a
diet that is too refined or concentrated. There is an
old proverb that says, ‘‘Spinach is a broom that
sweeps the stomach.” The large amount of fiber
contained in vegetables and (Continued on page 34)
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