Muscle, brain, and diet : a plea for simpler foods / by Eustace H. Miles.

  • Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Muscle, brain, and diet : a plea for simpler foods / by Eustace H. Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    these and others, I add below the forms in which I have found this milk-proteid most reliable. As to cheese, it owes its bad name largely to the fact that it is by itself a food-basis, and is not likely to agree when taken on the top of a complete meal. But there are digestions which apparently do not love cheese under any conditions whatsoever. Such should avoid cheese. All should judge all foods by real effects, not by theoretical effects, which have little power to prevent dyspepsia. Any slavish following of my own plan I strongly resent. I want to make readers think for themselves —think, think; be self-active pioneers, not servile followers hypnotised by myself or anyone else. I want to make readers realise that their best diet is still a problem. The unhealthier we are, the less normal we are—whether we be too unhappy, too restless, too slack, too fat, too thin ; the more diffi- cult our conditions and environments are—bad air, little exercise, “ many inventions,” many temptations —the greater is the need of careful “ forethought without fearthought.” I loathe that constant repeti- tion by Christian Scientists and others of “ Take no thought what ye shall eat.” Jesus never said that. The verb /uLepi/mvav expressed “ worry ”—anxious, harassing care that dissipates energy ; and the commandment forbade worrying anxiety as clearly as the parable of the ten foolish virgins forbade ignorant thoughtlessness. The habit of eating and drinking without discrimination, with sublimely