St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-12-26

nomisr. phrenologist and psychologist
will undertake to read your charac-
ter, pretty accurately, from its bodlly
expression. Now that body is mate
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 a Scot by eating oatmeal and
barley meal for a thousand years
Food is only the material; the mind
is the measure of the man. The Scot
who has given us so much theology,
metaphysics and science is the product,
primarily of the mental stimulation or
Land of brown heath and shaggy
wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood.
So when we say that you are what
you eat, we do not ignore the funda-
mental importance of the mind. 1t
is still true that as man thinketh
so is he-and that as a man eateth
so he thinketh. We have heard so
much lately of the influence of the
mind upon the body, that it is perhaps
time that the pendulum of thought
should again swing to the other side,
the influence of the body upon the
mind, and in time we may arrive at
the happy medium where truth lies,
the knowledge of the INTERPOLATION
the. essential unity of, body and mind,
the menta- physical 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
is exhausted he dies. Vitality is ex-
pended in work, in restoring normal
conditions when sickness occurs, ID
defense against disease, and in carry
ing on the normal functions Of con-
verting food into blood, throwing off
waste and poisonous matter. There is
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 it is impossible
to do ones best work after a heavy
meal.
Now If a 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 is 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 a simple, rad
ical cure of the one fundamental dis
ease, defective nutrition Of which all
diseases" are but symptoms This
is the cure which the eminent DR..
Haig has said he has been Convinced
by experience and experimsr Mt has
lain all the time at our doors while
we have been using drugs as pallia-
tives"
Some important facts were deVel-
oped 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 a wooden overcoat," while others
asked how to eat peanuts to avoid
their bad effects"-which suggests the
important fact that all foods are, IN
der certain circumstances, poisonous,
and the more concentrated, obviously,
the more virulent when misused.
With decrease in the daily food
supply comes an increase in strength
with loss Of weight. The vitality Or
dinari1y expended in converting food
into blood and eliminating the waste,
often excessive, can be used in ex-
traordinary mental work or in cure,
even Of deep-seated chronic disease.
The fact that appetite is always lost
Immediately on the advent of sickness
or mental angement-vioIent fear
anger, joy, etc.-indicates that upon
the regulation of diet, which implies
fasting as well as dieting, must be
based the true scientific cure of the
one fundamental disease, mal-nutri
ton, understanding that the term
nutrition in it's widest serse in
cludes normal supply of air, water,
sunlight, food, exercise, and right
mental conditions.