Crawford avalanche., 1894-08-30
a NEW FOOD GOSPEL.


from Monv Aiio.
Says a writer In the California
Fruit Grower: The Natural Food
Society. founded by DR.. Dcnsmore, OF
New York, was started In London
over hve years ago. with an ideal pro.
gram or fruits and nuts as an all
sufficient bill Of fare for those who
are healthy and live In all respects
natural lives, and who were born
with good constitutions. For the In
valid, and the hustler" working ex-
cessively, their usual meat ratiOns
should be continued at least once a
day.
The diet advocated onlyneeds that
bread, potato and other starch foods
be thrown out. substituting fresh,
sweet fruits -or partly dried IL fresh
is scarce. Meat and fish, II plainly
cooked, can be, used as before for a
time, until they can be replaced by
nuts, used by veg tarlans But the
latter 50 commonly use an increased
quantity or grain or other starch
foods as the result of renouncing
flesh, that their diet Is often less
wholesome than that OF the unrc-
formed public who eat moderately OF
fish, flesh, or fowl daily. While pure
blood is the first and main requisite
for perfect health. either of mind or
body, that can only be maintained by
pure and natural food.
The doctors are gradually but GER
tainly coming round to prescribing a
reform in diet rather than drugs.
They are unable, however, to advo-
cate fruit diet for the we'll, yet be-
cause they themselves, having been
brought up on mixed feeding, canno
consistently p, ,est ribe fruit and nuts,
or any other ideal diet. They live as
rule like their patients, and they
know pretty we'll that their patients
are mostly too much the slaves OF
habit and conventionality to adopt
radical measures when once relieved
from their ailment.
Among the physical advantages to
the individual, the fruit diet pre-
vents as we'll as cures disease, and
gives the highest health and the
longest life the constitution Is capa-
BILE of, In proportion as it is taken
temperately or judiciously. 1t in.
creases the strength because it is SO
readily assimilated, and the vitality
stamina, or nerve energy, Is con.
served for other purposes as needed.
To the general public, the fruit
diet promises many other blessing;
also 1t increases the opportunities
Of living In the open air and sun
shine. In decreases the need for
those occupations that have a debas-
ing or dangerous tendency, like the
tisherman's, the butchers, the bak.
er's, cooks, saloons and Others car
ried on often underground. 1t gives
scope for the intellectual training of
our youth in the observation of ma
ture and her laws, also In training
the mind as to special details of the
pruning and propagating of new va
rieties and prevention or disease and
pests. 1t reduces the anxieties fol
securing competency, as it simpli.
fies our wants, showing the utter
madness OF mere accumulation.
The fruit diet curbs ostentation
and luxury, and makes it possible for
rich and poor 10 feed more alike, and
share the same table. 1t affords q
clue for that complete self-reforma-
tiOn which must be the fOrerunner OF
any effective social regeneration of
the race. The tobacco habit, the sa-
looms and the general dissipation and
debanchery that abound in city life
would have nothing to feed on with
pure diet, and could all be prevent
ed or bred out of the community. Ii
meets the needs Of the increasing
population, because fruit trees in
their prime give far the heaviest re.
turns per acre of human food. Fruit
trees also afford that natural forestry
that is so indispensable for regulat-
ing rainfall, climate and other me.
teoro,ogical conditions. Fruit grow
ing mitigates the dullness Of coun-
try life by reducing the acreage OF
ranches, while it prevents the crowd
ing into big cities, and the depopula.
tion ofIu. al districts involved in ce
real and catt'e farming. 1t afford:
the best m ans Of making an all.
round, well-ba anced man by giving
time for cultivating the mental and
moral faculties, and also the taste fol
literature, music, art, science, etc.
AS such pure foods come into
vogue, the passions would be better
controlled, and cruelty and war would
become sooner impossible. AS we
ceased to be carnivorous, we should
"let the tiger die" within us, as the
poet says. Sensuality would be kept
in check, crimes OF violence would
greatly diminish, while disease might
be almost entirely prevented. Among
the ailments speedily remedied are
all those affected by Indigestion, such
as liver and skin complaints in sum
mer: also constipation, piles and the
various nerve diseases.