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VEGETARIANINA AND HEALTIL
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in which hen's eggs form the chief constituent. This person will soon fall ill. The digestive organs will refuse to act, the kidneys will excrete albumen, and will presently hecome intiamed. And if you do not soon abandon your experiment, the grave injury to his organism will cost him his life. Why? Because the wisdom of life designed the food material of the egg only for the life-stage of the embryo chicken, characterised by certain conditions, for a stage of inost rapid growth with out motion. For milk, Bunge has proved this special ad careful design of nature. He has shown that the compos:1011 of the milk of the various species of mammais, in parcular the albumen content, stands in a certain relation to the rate of growth of the particular suckling. Moreover mk, as you
ich the new-born a ima with it into the world in quantity sufficient to last for the nursing period. Hence a person whom yo' try to nourish on milk alone or even mostly, e.g. on milk and white bread, will also sicken, will suffer from everalcreasing poverty of the blood, waste away and soon die. Tie injuries which arise through the policy of boiling milk, though the destruction of the vitamins so that in the most exteme cases Barlow's disease results, all this I have not taker into account. But what I wish you to notice with regard to milk is the dependence of this food upon the source in which the another gets its food. Milk has different nutritive results according as the cow is fed on green fodde' or dry fodder. With green fodder nutrition is better, for simply by drying the grass the nature of the original nutritive energy is degraded. The vitamins are said to be diminished.
“But what are the vitamins? Something intangible, something that exists, that acts, and yet something that no one has been able to find. They are the still unknown substances! For example 200 grams of dried yolk of egg were extracted with 400 cubic centimetres of water, and the water evaporated off. The water-soluble vitamins should now be
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