The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-13
EVERY ONE EAT FRUIT
It Is to Be the Twentieth
Century Fad.
PHYSICAL And MORAL ILLS.
1t Is Guaranteed to Cure Every One
of Them.
SERVES BETTER As A PREVENTIVE.
The Farmer Who Fails on Wheat Nav
Recover Himself With an
Orchard.
SERVES BETTER AS A PREVENTIVE.

w. ). Manning, organizing secretary OF
the National Food Society OF London and
New York so promote fooa reform, based
on SCIENCE" and who has been in this city
since the opening of the Midwinter Fair,
Will read paper on the subject of 'Nat-
ural Food" before the Pomoloeical Society
at Sacramento next week. Mr.. Manning
came to this country from London at the
invitation of DR.. Emmett Densmore, in
ventor of the fruitaran idea, and has been
actively engaged in spreading the tenets
or the new faith ever since, first at the
Chicago fair and afterward through the
science congresses of last winter here and
by other means
The visit of DR.. Densmore 10 this city
and the interview published in The CALL
has given new interest to the peculiar
theories of The society. which, Mr.. Man.
ming says. is growing rapidly. 1t has about
5000 followers in Europe and as many in
this country.
The eating of natural food-fruit and
nus-t0 the exclusion of all other food"
said Mr. Manning in an interview yester-
day, means to escape almost all the dis
eases flesh is heir to. To be exact, flesh is
not heir to any disease. We may inherit
certain tendencies toward disease, but not
the disease, and by care in the selection of
the food We eat we escape all i'll. Nothing
is so Important to us surely as health and
the way toward long life, and nothing SO
essential to that end as the food we eat
Fruit and nuts are our natural food, be-
cause they con tain all the necessary life
sustaining and strengthening elements.
are more easily digestible, make no de-
mand or strain upon the nerve forces
a IlU ilah 10
and scientists know this. or should know
1t. Doctors have set their face against
bread in the case of the sick for twenty
years. Why not In the case of the well
then and so prevent sickness? for it is the
unnatural food we eat more than any
other cause, as say the infractlon of ma
lures laws, that brings On sickness. The
man who observes these laws must wait
for old age to bring death, if he Will not
commit suicide and keeps out of the way
OF the cars.
Bread and all starch foods drain the
system of nerve force in their digestion
meats and mineral foods clog the arteries
with lime deposits ard sickness and death
result. Brights disease, for instance,
results from defective nerve energy and
the failure 10 the proper distribution OF
food as it enters the liver. No disease
ger ms can live In an acid secretion. The
members of the Natural Food Society are
eOSCtuol VII bbIS Uub pOlut-LIc Op-
position TO starch TO DDS. Meats are much
more easily digested and not so harmful.
You will see the effects of the food they
eat upon whole nations.
The Teutons and Anglo-Saxons, who
take to beef. are strong and aggressive;
Latlns and Celts. who eat much more of
grain and vegetable, rank far below them
in these qualities: while the Asiatics, who
snbslst mostly upon grain, are slight and
afflicted with the diseases which they
superinduce.
'The natural food movement is a TWEEN