The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-12-26

thought OF the architect who designed
it. And you can no more build .
sound, beautiful. enduring body with
out good food than an architect can
build a beautiful temple without steel
and marble.
"a crook in the mind makes q crook
in the body" You cannot meet =
stranger without forming some I'm
preston OF what he is. You uncon-
sciously recognize in physical form
and quality of body the character Of
the man; and the trained physiog-
nomist, phrenologist and Psychologist
will undertake to read your charac-
ter, pretty accurately, from its bodily
expression. Now that body is mats
rial and the material is food. The
Eskimo is built of blubber. the Scot
OF oatmeal. the Japanese Of rice
and beans. But the Eskimo could not
become Scot by eating oatmeal and
barley meal for q thousand years.
Food II only the material: the mind
IL the measure Of the man. The Sect
who has given US so much theology.
metaphysics and science Is the product
primarily Of the mental stimulation Of
Land of brown heath and shaggy
wood,
Land OF the mountain and the Hood"
So when we say that you are what
you eat. we do not ignore the funda-
mental Importance Of the mind. Il
Is still true that as man thiuketh
SO Is he-and that as man eateth
SO he thinketh. We have heard 50
much lately of the influence Of the
mind upon the body, that 1t is perhaps
time that the pendulum of thought
should again swing to the other side.
the influence of the body upon tho
mind, and in time we may arrive at
the happy medium where truth lies.
the knowledge of the INTERPRETATION
the essential unity of, body and mind,
the metaphysical constitution
Scientific authorities agree that
vitality is fixed Quantity-that each
individual is born with certain store
OF vital force. and that when the stock
ID exhausted he dies. Vitality Is ex-
pended In work, In restoring normal
conditions when sickness occurs, in
defense against disease, and in carry
ing on the normal functions of con-
verting food into blood, throwing on
waste and poisonous matter. There IL
no means OF estimating the extent OF
any of these expenditures. but We
know that the energy spent in digest
ing and eliminating food is consid-
cradle. We know that 1t is impossible
to do ones best work after heavy
meal.
Now II large per cent. Of the
energy ordinarily expended in diges-
ton, including elimination. can be
saved without loss of nutrition. a
gain in working capacity. in good feel
ing, in length Of life. must result. The
practice of simple diet shows re-
markable gains in these respects.
The severe mental work done and the
mental strain sustained during the
period OF my one-sided peanut diet,
indicates that the average person
over-eats and eats too many kinds of
food
The first effect Of sickness ID loss
Of appetite. Nature then uses the
vitality commonly used for digestion
to repair the defect, to restore nor
NAL health conditions. Here Is indi-
Gated the natural cure. We know
what elements different foods contain
and what the body needs; and upon
this knowledge is based simple, rad
ica1 cure of the one fundamental dis
care, defective nutrition Of which al |
diseases" are but symptoms. This
Is the cure which the eminent DR..
Haig has said he has been convinced
by experience and experiment has
lain all the time at our doors while |
we have been using drugs as pallia- |
tives."
Some important facts were devel- |
pped in contribution to this science
Of radical cure by the peanut expert
ment.
Hundreds of letters were received |
during the test from people who but
FOR an accidental discovery of the !
peanut diet, would have been wear
Ing wooden overcoat." while others
asked how to eat peanuts to avoid |
heir bad effects"-which suggests the
important fact that all foods are, un-
Ter certain circumstances. poisonous.
and the more concentrated. obviously,
The more yirulent when misused.
With decrease in the daily food
supply comes an increase in strength
with loss of weight. The vitality or.
iinarily expended in converting food
INTO blood and eliminating the waste.
1ften excessive. can be used in ex-
.raordinary mental work or In cure,
.ven Of deep-seated chronic disease.
The fact that appetite is always lost
on the advent of sickness
'r mental derangement-violent fear.
NIGER low etc-indicates that uDon