It is thus that one can often explain the failure, and at times the clearly harmful effect, of the classic milk-vegetarian diet, of which there have been so many practitioners again these past years. The magnesium content is too low. This can be obtained, as proved by M. Villain, by a regeneration of the earth with the aid of appropriate fertilizers, under a systematic control of the mineralization of cultivated vegetables. The overly civilized world feeds itself poorly. Without being obliged to return to the quasi animal diet of the fellahin, it should relearn to mineralize itself normally.
Corn is the magnesium aliment par excellence.
Even when it grows on less favorable soil, less rich, in magnesium than Egyptian soil, corn still always contains a relatively large amount of magnesium, little potash and calcium, and a lot of phosphoric acid. In the southern countries, where corn is the base of the diet of the people, cancer is relatively rare. It is very rare where the corn is consumed integrally, as is done by the fellahin in Egypt. If colored people in, the United States show less cases of cancer than whites, it is not because the dark race is refractory, as has been said, but very probably because the American Negroes have retained the African habit of eating corn. One can state that the problem of cancer and many other illnesses depends mainly on the bread in the diet.