Our parents who bring us into this world do not, as a rule, cultivate self-control. Their habits and their way of living influence the children to a certain extent. The mother's food during pregnancy is bound to affect the child. After that during childhood, the mother pampers the child with al sorts of tasty foods. She gives the child a little bit out of weather she herself may be eating and the child's digestive system gets a wrong training from its infancy.
Habits once formed are difficult to shed.
There are very few who succeed in getting rid of them. But when the realization comes to man that he is his own bodyguard, and his body has been dedicated to servise, he desires to learn law of keeping his body in a fit condition and tries hard to follow them. We have now reached a point when we can lay down the amount of various foods required by a man of sedentary habits, which most men and women who read this pages, are. Cow's milk 2 lbs. Vegetable leafy 3 oz.