The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-11-09
DR.. Allen Discusses
"Diet and Health
CONTINUED from Psse l.,

body is The instrument Of its express
sion-and the body Is built OF food
The difference in matter is only a
difference in rate Of vibration. But
what man if he is asked for bread
viii give stoneg VIII water burn
as well as oilg
''The theory OF those idealists who
say that one food will do as well as
another providing the mental attitude
is right is ideally right, but practical
~ wrong. wofully wrong. but no more
wrong than the theory Of those who
hold that the mind has no power over
the body to produce health or disease.
The truth is in the essential oneness
of the two. which is the doctrine q
dual-unltarianism- coinage which
have The honor of introducing to your
attention, not on its own account but
on account Of what it expresses, the
fundamental philosophy Of life. sDiri-
tual and physical
There are good people who believe
that il makes no difference what they
eat SO long as they think right 9th
ers equally well-meaning people say
that thought is a function Of the brain,
that if you have a good brain you will
have good thought. and that il yon
want to live right, to have good health
to enjoy life. to think pure thoughts
just eat good food, in the right way
and keep your machine in good run
ming order.
THAT reminds us OF the story OK
the seven blind men who went to
see the elephant: They all say some
thing different Narrowness Of view
is the cause of our differences.
The real life is the spiritual life,
and ii is because we desire the life
more abundant that we are giving the
physical factor. the food, so much con-
sideration now. AS a man thinketh
so is he. and as a man eateth SO he
thinketh. This requires the import
ant qualification Of heredity.
THE only real thing. the only un-
changing thin, is change. What
shall be tomorrow, am becoming to-
day. What am today was becoming
yesterday, all the yesterdays. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, who was better doc
tor than poet, said that If you want
a good boy you must begin with his
grandparents. Bishop Fallows says,
You can make a boy good or bad
according to the wa ygou feed him
That is literally true, but it is not the
whole truth. | can produce evidence
that will be accepted in any count.
that It depends on the way you feed
his mother, as broadly suggested In
the text, The parents ate sour grapes
and the children's teeth are set on
edge. Ninety per cent Of all disease,
our best authorities now hold Is due
10 wrong diet. ! heard Dr. Cutter.
Food Commissioner Of the state of
Missouri say at the recent food ex-
position in ST. Louis, that his own
experience and observation had con-
vinced him that 70 per cent Of our
diseases are due TO wrong diet Prob
ably he wishes not to make the mis-
take that many specialists make OF
over estimating the importance Of
their line, like the osteopath who
would cure stomach ache by setting
the bones, or the mental scientist
who would find the cause in the mind,
even if it were piece Of pie
"lf the prime cause OF disease, not
accidental, is auto-intoxication. the
absorption from the lower alimentary
canal Of the waste from food, what
we eat and how. must have large
place in the maintenance OF health
and in its recovery.
We have learned in the past
fifty years for practical use, the
great physiological truth, that, the
life Of the body is the life Of the IN
dividual cells that. individually and
collectively make up its organs. Now
we can study the first principles Of
Hle Of the amoeba. which is a far rep !.
resentatiye Of the blood cells.
1T has been said that an animal is
a stomach with certain other organs
attached. The amoeba can be seen to
be a digesting organism. Cope the
American naturalist. has said that
the amoeba secures a meal with as
nuch precision as a statesman exer-
cises in framing a government and
Prof. James. the great American
psychologist said that the adoption
Of means to ends is thought There
fore we are warranted in concluding
that life Is a nutritional process. dual
unitarian. in which the mental-physi-
cal processes are unified.
nDr. Beal. a great English authority
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