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VEGETARIANISM AND HEALTH
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“But things become quite different when the animal is slaughtered, the blood removed, and when the cellular tissue and organs have passed through the rigor mortis and the boiling, roasting, smoking, or salting process. The wellknown exothermic energy processes- pardon me if for the sake of brevity I do not explain these processes more particularly (see Grundlagen der Ernahrungs-therapie, Foundations of nutrition therapy) which here come into play show the energy is being lost, and where else can this expelled enesy come from than from the most sensitive and at the samesme for nutrition the most valuable energy-quanta-symronies of the spectral nutrition energy formations? Ther.ore the nutritive value of the flesh preparations consured by the human being is utterly deficient and inadequat. It is true that decomposable masses which moreover ,e mixed with characteristic stimulants are subjected to hum assimilation, and a feverish activity is started in the gans of digestion and assimilation which gives an illusory seeling of strength ; but this is only in small part nourishnent, rather it is encumbrance and deception. If you fed a person on butcher's ineat, fish and poultry only, he will succumb in a surprisingly short space of time to severe poining. I have somewhere l'ead of Asiatic tribes who condmo their criminals to death by flesh. The condemned person receives either mutton only or veal only, and death is said to take place in 28 to 30 days.
“With vegetable food the case is altogether different. It is now proved that on a fruit and nut diet man can grow up, flourish, and perforiji full physical and mental work, enjoy splendid health. Whole nations, e.g., the Japanese, whose diet consists almost exclusively of vegetables, with unpolished rice as a basis, flourish and exhibit high physical, mental and moral virtues. In Japan, the man of the people—not forsooth 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 25 miles a day, and whom
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