The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-27
MIXED DIET CAUSES SEM0u9TY
AND DISEASE, EXPERT ASSERTS
rmilk. but evidenced for the mono.

termilk, but evidence for the mono
diet.
Prof. Slonaker. holds that because
those rats of his squad that were fed
on meat with corn. lived nearly twice
as long. and did seven times as much
work AS those fed on a great variety
of vegetable food-that it follows
sential to the greatest efficiency and
long life III man. He seems not to
have raised the question whether the
inferior results of the vegetable-fed
animals might be due to the diff
Guilty of digesting. and of the waste
from an excessive variety of food.
Simple Dict is Best.
1t Is worthy of note that twenty
eight varieties of food We're regularly
given to the vegetarian feeders, and
also meat occasionally. If my con-
tention-maintained by unanswerable
direct argument. by elaborate expert
ments. and by many personal expert
ences-iS correct. that the only way
to secure efficiency and health is by a
simple dict excluding flesh. and that
premature senility and it's special dis
eases, cancer, or primarily due TO the
excessive mixing of foods. precisely
the result that Prof. Slonaker obtain
ed are to he expected from such a
test.
have maintained that the average
man could live better on a diet of
bread II meat alone than on the
ordinary mixed diet; that, in fact. the
vegetarian diet may he no better than
the diet including flesh n eggs.
Even the meat monodiets as a cure,
is supported by eminent authority.
h most incompatible mixtures
and those including flesh. which is
dlsested principally in the stomach
with acid fruit and vegetables, like
apples, tomatoes, lettuce and cab
hagc. digestcd almost wholly the in
%testinc. i'll one-fourth the time, with
out the gastric secretion: and the
most important improvement that can
be made in the average mans diet
is the entire exclusion of flesh. I
have mentioned many cases in sup
port of this. and l will take the lib
erty now of mentioning my own.
For nearly ten years l have eaten
no flesh meat, and during this time
l have done better work physical
and mental. than before. | have fire.
auently walked from INVENTIVE to
thirtN-tive miles a day without any
unpleasant effects. During the past
twelve weeks / have seldom eaten
anything but about a pound of UNI
polished rice with %raisins, and less
than a quart of milk per day, and /
pass as perfectly healthy and active
to an extraordinary degree always
attracting attention by my brisk walk
on the streets, which is entirely in
! voluntary and ~pleasurable. During
the past winter when the thermome-
ter registered the unusually low tenn
perature of 10 below zero, / slept in
a room without fire. and have worn
only a raincoat for additional protec-
ton.
! Rcri-Beri Among the Japs.
' In supper of his contention that
meat is necessary to the highest efti-
/ cheney in Prof. Slonaker men,
tions that the Japanese We're former
ly subject to beri-beri, hut that since
meat and bread were added to the
soldiers rations. this disease has be-
come rare. Official reports of ex-
pariments made in the Philippines
by the United States army have
shown conclusively that beri-beri is
due to eating polished rice, and that
prevents the disease.
IT the rat is properly a rodent. a
snawer. his proper o is not lettuce
nor boiled cabbage. nor boiled pota-
toes with two dozen other foods, and
it is reasonable to. suppose that on
such an unnatural diet he would he
as inefficient and as short-lived as
man is on such an excessively mixed
diet. If the grains are the natural
foe of the rat. it is reasonable to
suppose that the detachment of rats
fed on corn n meat should live
much better than the others. The
conclusion that the superior vigor
and working capacity of the rats fed
on grain and meat was due to the in
clusion of meat in the diet is. it seems
TO me- wholly unwarranted. md the
Inference that meat should he incl1,d-
ed in mans diet to secure the greatest
endurance. entirely wrong. and I'VE
are confident that this can be demon
strated by a similar experiment.