Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
a NEW FOOD GOSPEL.
Frnit and Nuts to Emsncipate Human,.-
from MANY His.

Fruit and Nuts to Emancfpate Humans,
from MANY His.
Saws writer in the Californi.
Fruit Grower: The Natural Food
Society. founded by DR.. Densmore, If
New York, was started in London
over five years ago, with an ideal pro.
gram of 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 eY.
cessively, their usual meat rations
should be continued at least once
day.
The diet advocated only needs that
bread, potatoes and other starch foods
he thrown out, substituting fresh
sweet fruits or partly dried if fresh
is scarce. Meat and fish, il plainly
cooked, can be used as before for
time, until they can be rep aced bv
nuts, used by veg tarians But the
latter so commonly use an increased
quantity Of grain or other starch
foods as the result Of renouncinp
flesh. that their diet Is often less
wholesome than that Of the unre.
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 adyo-
cate fruit diet for the well, yet be,
cause they themselves, having been
brought up on mixed feeding, cannot
consistently prescribe fl uit and nuts,
or any other ideal diet. They livea as
rule like their patients, and they
know pretty we'll that their patients
are mostly too much the slaves of
habit and conventiouality 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
temporarily or judiciously. 1t in,
creases the strength because it is SO
readily assimilated, and the vitality
stamina, or nerve energy. is COD
served for other purposes as needed.
To the general public, the fruit
diet promises many other blessings
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
fsherman's, the butchers, the bak
ers. 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 OF disease and
pests. 1t reduces the anXieties fol-
securing competency, as it simpl
fes our wants, showing the utter
madness OF mere accumulation.
The fruit diet curbs ostentation
and luxury, and makes it possible for
rich and poor to feed more alike, and
share the same table. 1T affords a
clue for that complete self-reforma
! any effective social regeneration OF
the race. The tobacco habit, The Sa-
| looms and the general dissipation and
| debauchery that abound in city life
would have nothing to feed on with
a pure diet, and could all be prevent
! ed or bred out of the community. 1t
! 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 mit'gates the dullness eof (oun-
try life by reducing the acreage Of
ranches, while it prevents the crowd
| ing into big cities, and the depopuIa
tion ofrural districts involved in &C.
real and cattle farming. 1t affords
the best means of making an all
round, well ba anced man by giving
| Time Tor cultlVatlng the mental anu
| moral faculties, and also the taste t0I
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 shoulO
"let the tiger die" within US, as the
poet says. Sensuality would be KEEP,
in cheek, crimes OF violence wouFo
greatly diminish, while disease mlghI
be almost entirely prevented. Among
the ailments sL-edily remeded art
all those affected by indigestion, sucD
as liver and skin complaints in sum
mer; also constipation, piles and tnf
various nerve diseases.