Nutrition is of more importance because it is more fundamental, and it is more fundamental because when the body is naturally nourished, there is created a surplus amount of energy which will compel a certain amount of motion, and this in turn will cause deep or full breathing. Therefore the well-fed person will take his exercise because he has an appetite for it, or because the superabundance of energy forces him to do it in obedience to the same law that produces hunger. Hence the perfectly nourished body will conform automatically to the other two great physical laws of motion and of oxidation. _Constipating Foods_ _Laxative Foods_ --------------------- --------------- All white flour products All green salads Blackberries Apples Cheese Apricots Chestnuts Beet-tops Corn-starch Celery Fine corn-meal Figs Macaroni Peaches Oatmeal Persimmons Red meat Plums Rice Prunes Spaghetti Spinach Sweet potatoes Turnips-tops White bread Wheat bran Whole wheat _Constipating Beverages_ _Laxative Beverages_ ------------------------ -------------------- All alcoholic stimulants Mineral water containing magnesia Chocolate Unsweetened fruit-juice Cocoa Water--lime-free Coffee Cream Lime-water Milk (In small quantities) Tea In cases of constipation: OMIT EAT Baked beans All fresh vegetables Chestnuts Apricots Cheese Bananas Coffee, tea, chocolate Grapes--seeds, skins and all Corn products Nuts Cream Peaches Flesh food of all kinds Plums Intoxicants Prunes Milk Succulent plants Oatmeal Tomatoes Rice Wheat bran Sweet potato Whole wheat Tobacco Rye White flour products Drink plain water with meals. GASTRITIS Gastritis is a word meant to describe a chronic and a painful condition of stomach and of intestinal irritation. When the stomach becomes much irritated from constant fermentation of food, and from the resultant presence of acid, certain articles such as milk, fruit-acids, and starchy foods will cause rapid accumulation of gas, which becomes exceedingly painful and sometimes dangerous. [Sidenote: Gas, the primary cause of heart trouble]