Muscle, brain, and diet : a plea for simpler foods / by Eustace H. Miles.

  • Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Muscle, brain, and diet : a plea for simpler foods / by Eustace H. Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stupid faith in a perverted instinct, cannot be justified by Jesus’ words or doings ; nor does the oft-quoted “ Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die ” supply an adequate reason for rash eating and drinking. Where instinct has been perverted— where there is not merely the power to take un- natural things, but the craving to take them—there must be forethought till the correct instinct has been re-established. Once regain it, and you may fairly, and as if you were the good king and it the good servant, trust it with the choice of foods. It will relieve you of the burden of selection. Yet comparatively few will consent to explore this to them unknown land of Simple Foods. The majority in their first steps need definite paths, and I have been frequently asked to set forth my own special dietary more definitely. The disadvantages are obvious: these dishes would—in spite of all warning—be understood by the silly as commands, not as hints; some of them may prove unsuitable to you; or, if suitable, may lead to a hazy and lazy acceptance not reasoned out and conscientiously approved by the individual; but if they be sensibly adopted pro tern., as a few out of a large number of more or less likely dishes, little harm can be done. I will suppose that the day has three main meals, and I will suggest for would-be experimenters that one of the three main meals (probably lunch) shall be of the Simple Foods. I will make this meal theo- retically complete, as far as I understand complete-