But until they are able to provide us with such combinations, we shall be compelled to think that they are merely throwing spit balls at phantoms. This objection has been answered many times and the answer has been ignored as often as it has been given. It may not be amiss to briefly reply to it again at this time. The digestive tract can vary its digestive secretions, both as to the acidity of alkalinity and as to timing, to meet the digestive requirements of different foods. Complex meals are not seen in nature and they are not digested with much efficiency by man.
Simple meals digest better.
It will also be found by all who will give the matter a fair trial that properly combined meals digest much better than the conventional heterogeneous comminglers of foods that are commonly eaten. When a subject is so easily put to the test, there seems to be no reason why anyone should be in doubt about it. One does not have to accept the dogmatic assertions of the ex-spurts, who know all about the subject and know it all wrong. In the weak, in the sick, in those with impaired digestion, there is urgent need that correct combinations be eaten if satisfactory digestion is to be achieved. The healthy man may make occasional compromises, the sick man should never do so.