The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

| ~ nun 10 oulu W Ue 6b Olu nS his dIt0T
les, by which Is meant whossver has his
arteries in natural condition is assured Of
| a vigorous circulation and the MINI BILE
ness OF youth even IN old age.
| Flonrens, the eminent French natural
ist,demonstrated that the duration Of an
imais can be ascertsined by multiplying
oy nve the years required for hardening
the long bones. In man th's is usually
accomplished At rs years of age, and
hence. according to this great authority
mans natural length of life is 1875 years.
buffon, smother equally eminent natural
list, contendcd that the duration of an
animals life is six or seven times the
age at which II attained its full growth.
In man this period is usually at 20 years;
and hence. according to Button. mans
natural term OF life is IRON 1870 to lao
years.
There are two prominent causes that
serve to abridge mans natural term OF
years, and cut him off at go or 20, when
he has lived only one half of his natural
| span. Whatever TENDS to waste that
which is call vital force contributes to
this end. Overwork, sedentary pursuits
the worry arising from competitive kfe
| in cities, all tend to waste ones vital
force. At the same time it is contended
that errors in diet contribute far more to
the waste OF vital energy than the strain
OF overwork and competition. DR.. EN-
met Densmore has shown IN How Nature
Cures, that bread-our so-called staff OF
lite-is the mos. wasteful in vital energy
of any one food that we can eat. with
the exception of the puisss-beans. peas
ana lentils. These latter have the dis
tinction OF being the most difficult to di-
Rest OF any. fooo commonly used b. any
considerable portion OF the race. Phys
| leans and health. seekers alike will b sur
prised to find in DR.. Densmore's book the
many arguments in proof OF this conten-
ton, and demonstrating beyond success
ful contradiction that bread is really the
staff Of death. According to DR.. Dens-
| more, the diet of men and women en-
gagged in the ordinary pursuits Of life
OF bread and cereals, supplemented by
meat, milk. eggs and ike animal pro-
ducts. The fruit is all-sufficient to sup.
port the heat of the body and to keep up
| vital force. The nitrogen necessary to
support muscular waste Is easily supplied
from the above animal foods.
| 1t is curious that DR.. Densmore's con-
tention in regard to bread was pu, for
ward many years ago by an English
physician based on entirely different rea-
sons. DR.. S. Rowbotham. an English
physician who published the results Of
| scientific investigation into diet in Man
chester over forty years ago claimed that
the calcareous and earthly matters which
are deposited in the tissues are the prime
cause of decrepitude and premature old
age and death. Most interesting expert.
ments in confirmation of this contention
| from DR.. Rowboths m s writings. These
show that the prime cause of premature
decrepitude in the filling up of the arter-
| les is bread and cereals, which contribute
more to this result than any other food.
1t is interesting TO note that Dr.. Dc
Lacy Evans, in his work, How to Prolong
| Life. published some fifteen years since,
! gives contirmatory evidence Of the posi-
| ton taken by DR.. Row botham. Accord
| ing to DR.. De Lacv Evans, fruits and non
| starchy vegetables are the most natural
foods and contribute most largely to lon
gevity; the next favorable diet being
meat. fish and anima! products, wheat
bread ana cereals constitute the worst pos
| sibla diet for man, the veritabis staff Of
| death.
! 4 There is one other matter regarding
diet that is of tue first i'm portance. What
shall we drink? Again, earnest students
| Of this subject are referred to How Ma.
ture Cures Tor the arguments put forward
in favor OF the claim that the juices Of
fruits and distilled water should con.
| stitute our only drink. 1t is gratifying
to those we'll advanced in Yeas. ard who
| find themselves with stiffened joints and
bodies to learn that the use OF distilled
water will not only prevent the deposition
of earthly matters in the tissues, but that
persistent use of it:tends to wash out
these foreign matters from the system.
Another most. important contribution
on diet and health has been made in u
recently published work by DR.. Edwin
Science of Living, the New Gospel of
Health, comprises a series of lectures on
health and disease addressed very largely
in unteohnical phraseoiogy to physicians
and laymen. The pivotal doctrine of
| this work is the putting forward of the
i II 10 OF n
disease. Untrammelled she will effect
her own cures. Every disease that affects
mankind is a constitutional possibility
| developed into disease Dy more or less
haoitual eating in excess of the supply of
gastric jules. Hence all attempts at cur
the restoration OF the stomach to its
normal digestive powers. This, DR.. Dewey
tells u.s. m ust be accomplished by "evolu-
ton in REVERSE" that -, by fasting. Ma
ture provides her own bill of tare during
the fas In case Of illness ''the brain
vided for in the fat aud other tissues we
car easily spare until the sksle,on stage
| is reached" Before this siege is reached,
| however. unless death from the first is
inevitable, mature will change her bill
of fare and natural cali for food will
table is attacked. Ovsr-eating is the root
of all disease. The stomach needs long
| periods of rest to enable the little glands
! to generate and throw out their dissolv-
| ing juices for the next meal. This sys-
! tenn. DR.. Dewey claims, is based on physi-
| illogical law. He explains that sleep is
not hunger-producing process. 1t is
more than this; it is this very opposite,
ana earnest students of health will be
| surprised to note that many items when
they 60 to bed hungry they will arise
next morning entirely free from any de.
sire for food. Ordinarily people retire
about the time the process of digestion
is well under way. Assimilation goes on
during sleep. There is. no exercise and
no activity in fair health. mental or
| physical, during slum ber--there is rest.
1t is because OF this thst one arises after
the usual nights sleep with the nourish-
msnt of the second meal Of the day be-
sore stored and ready to be drawn upon
to supply the needs of the next four or
! SIX hours. Rn4 t4'i ~
Many hygienists have known for years
that one ought not to eat until there 10
appetite they have also known that it is
only exercise or WORK that ere ates natural
| appetite. Live on sixpencs day and
| pepsla. 1t is easy to see that If the body
| meal cannot have been expended and
| that the feeling which many people have
| in the morning that is mistaken for hun
| ger cannot be natural appetite. 1t is in
| Illumination. And il Is often difficult to
| differentiate one s sensations between ma
tural appetite and Inflammation. Many
| people tlree or four hours after hearty
meal will assure you that they are hun
| gry: but nine times out OF ten. II YOU