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milk and eggs. It is evident, then, that anlmal life can preserve and store the vitamins taken in their food. So that at least when the animal is alive, they are always present in their orl. ginal vegetable values though mixed, so the Doctor explains with other such substances which, as regards nutrition, act rather as ballast. He concludes from this that milk, eggs, and animal organs also possess nutritive value, and that beasts of prey who swallow their victims alive and with the blood flourish on purely animal food. His next words are of particular value and interest to us. He says :- ' But things become quite different when the animal is slavghtered, the blood removed, and when the cellular tissue and organs have passed through the rigor mortis, and the boiling, roasting, smoking, or salting process'. Experiments show, he says, that, then, valuable energy is lost-energy that from the polat of view of the nutrition of the eater of such food is a sericus loss. “Therefore, he declares, the nutritive value of the flesh preparations consumed by the human being, is utterly deficient and Inadequate. It is true that decomposable masses which more over are mixed with characteristic stimulants are subjected to humau assimilation, and a feverish activity is started in the organs of digestion, and assimilation which gives an illusionary feeling of strength, but this is only, in small part, nourishmentrather it is encumbrance, and deception. If you feed a person on butcher's meat, fiab, and poultry only, he will succumb, in s surprisingly short space of time, to severe poisoning.'
Vegetarian Diet. Dr. Bircher-Benner has discovered the fact that plants represent condensed Sun-light-an essential for health, He says of it :
"The meaning of this discovery, will be, at once, evident to you when you hear that it is as much as to say; for human nourishment, fruits, buts, and raw salads have the highest value, foods of animal origin have the lowest ". If this is so, then certainly, it seeins odd that we rest content to partake of the essen
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