Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 4Christian, Eugene
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Encyclopedia of Diet: A Treatise on the Food Question, Vol. 4
Christian, Eugene
Diet; Diet in disease; Food
Half a cup of wheat bran, cooked, eaten with
cream
A small bunch of grapes
Two eggs, whipped about six or seven minutes;
add a teaspoonful of sugar and a tablespoonful of
olive-oil, while whipping
One extremely ripe banana; serve with cream
and either nut butter or nuts (The banana
should be baked, if not very ripe)
LUNCHEON
One fresh vegetable--carrots, parsnips, or
turnips
A boiled onion
A baked potato
One egg, cooked two minutes, eaten with the
potato skins
Fresh butter
A cup of hot water at the close of the meal
DINNER
Half a cup of wheat bran, cooked
Two or three eggs, prepared as for breakfast
One extremely ripe banana and a few soaked
prunes
(A very small, baked white potato may be taken
if something salty is desired)
A bunch of grapes
Just before retiring, eat a small bunch of grapes and drink a cup of
hot water. Devote from three to five minutes to exercises which have
already been prescribed for the morning.
These meals may be varied by changing the vegetables, and now and
then substituting for the eggs a portion of fresh fish or a glass of
buttermilk.
If the quantity of food prescribed does not seem sufficient, it might
be slightly increased; however, do not increase it beyond the limits
of normal hunger. The best combinations of food, when taken in excess
of the bodily needs, undergo a form of decomposition, and become a
prolific source of dis-ease.
WINTER MENU
_TUBERCULAR TENDENCY
CONSTIPATION--NERVOUSNESS--CATARRH_
BREAKFAST
Two very ripe, red bananas, baked
Nuts, cream, raisins
Two whipped eggs; sugar; flavor to taste
A spoonful of wheat bran
LUNCHEON
Three fresh eggs, whipped about six minutes,
with sugar; pineapple juice added after whipping
A small portion of wheat bran, cooked
DINNER
Celery
A tablespoonful of olive-oil
One fresh vegetable
A potato
Whole wheat bread (very little)
Buttermilk or gelatin
The above menus have been selected and combined so as to counteract
constipation, catarrh, nervousness, biliousness, etc. There is no
specific remedy in foods for consumption. Foods will aid in curing
this dis-ease only through the natural process of building up healthy
tissue, and increasing the power of the body to resist all dis-eases.
SPRING MENU
_WEAK LUNGS_
_TENDENCY TOWARD INTESTINAL CONGESTION_
Immediately on rising drink a glass or two of water and take a very
little of some juicy fruit. Also take a brisk walk in the open air
before breakfast.
BREAKFAST
The strained juice of one sweet orange, or a
few very ripe berries, without cream
Two or three coddled eggs
A small whole wheat cracker
One baked banana
A spoonful of wheat bran
LUNCHEON
A whole wheat muffin with butter, and a
dessert-spoonful of honey
A glass or two of milk
Wheat bran
DINNER
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