Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 1

SR No.: 008002
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 623
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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tials of life like vitamins
a second-hand manner. Is it not more sensible to go straight to the original sources of supply instead of receiving them second-hand?
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Let us bear this important discovery in mind, and turn now to the Doctor's presentation of the case for the vegetarian diet.
"With vegetable foods, the case is altogether different. It is now proved that, on a fruit, and nut diet, man can grow up, flourish, and perform full physical, and mental work, and enjoy splendid health. Whole Nations e-g the Japanese whose diet consists exclusively of vegetables with un-polished rice as a basis, flourish, and exhibit high physical, mental, and moral vir tues. In Japan, the man of the people-not for sooth, the Europeanised Japanese physician does not believe, as does The European, in the strength of flesh food. Accordingly, the riksha-men who had to run, twenty-five miles a day, and whom Prof. Baelz of Tokio had offered meat for their extra-ordinary achievement, begged to be allowed to leave it, as it made them feel too tired and they could not run so well as before. From these facts, we must conclude, whether we will or not, that the energy-relations of fresh vegetables correspond with the requirements of the human organism to a far greater extent, than do the best animal foods such as milk, and eggs; indeed that they alone completely meet the need. This result completely corresponds with my theory of the essential nature of chemical nutritive energy, and its original identity with Sun-light ".
Plainly, it is the Doctor's firm belief that the vegetarian diet is the perfect one for health, and efficiency.
"These plant food-units contain everything which the human organism requires, and in the right proportions enough of the various proteids-a wealth of the best energy -giver, the carbohydrates from which fats can at any time be formed in the organism or the fats themselves; the minerals necessary for life (the nutritive salts) in the excited state, and in the right proportions; and accordingly, also, the vitamins or supplementary