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body, and to this class belong the foods which we avoid. They clog the system. These are such foods as cheese, all earthy foods, and other substances in which there is difficulty of digestion. · We do not stop there, but examine the nature of the animal diet and the vegetable diet. The very elements which are found in the vegetable diet are also found in the animal diet, but there are certain other Teasons why we reject the latter. We first say that man was never intended to be a carnivorous animal. The scriptures are in favor of a vegetarian diet and not of the animal diet. There is a passage in Genesis which says that the God said, “I have given you every herb, etc., for your ineat.' Later op accout of the fall of man as it is understood, of course by all advocates of that theory, the people became flesh eaters and were carnivorous, but the original idea of holy persons was that the food proper for man was the vegetable diet. In other books of the Bible you will find passages confirming this theory. In the book of Daniel you will find such a passage. This proves that the earliest theory in the Bible history was of the vegetable diet. There are of course other reasons for following this rule besides the fact that Sacred history confirms it. There are many people who do not belive in these books, and they think only of scientic : facts. They think that muscular strength and endurance depend on animal 'diet, but science and
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