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
Banana, nut butter, raisins, and cream make a delicious combination.
The entire breakfast could be made of these with good results.
/Fourth Day/: Exercise, water-drinking, and deep breathing just
before retiring and just after rising, as prescribed for the first day.
BREAKFAST
A few Malaga grapes or a sweet orange
Two exceedingly ripe bananas, eaten with
thin cream and nut butter
A cup of junket, or a small portion of gelatin
with a very little sugar and thin cream
One egg prepared as per recipe in "Introduction
to Menus" if the appetite will accept it.
(See p. 678.)
LUNCHEON
A green salad
A small portion of fish or chicken
A baked potato
A cup of hot water
DINNER
One or two fresh vegetables--choice
A glass of buttermilk with a small piece of
corn bread
A small portion of gelatin with thin cream
If the bowels are not normal, a portion of wheat bran should be taken
at the morning and the evening meal.
Both digestion and assimilation of food can be largely increased by
daily taking exercise No. 3 (see Vol. V, p. 1344), vigorously, for ten
or fifteen minutes just after rising and just before retiring.
/Fifth Day/: Same as the fourth, slightly increasing or
decreasing the quantity of food according to hunger.
/Sixth Day/: Same as the first, repeating, for a period of two
or three weeks, the menus as given, varying the meals by choosing
different vegetables in the same class as those prescribed.
SPRING MENU
_ABNORMAL APPETITE OBESITY--DROWSINESS_
MENU I MENU II
BREAKFAST
The juice of a sweet orange, Fruit--choice
or a dish of very ripe One whole egg
berries, with sugar only A bran meal gem or a small
Two very ripe bananas portion of corn bread
eaten with thin cream, One extremely ripe banana
dates, and nuts, masticated with figs, thin cream, and
exceedingly fine nuts
Two glasses of water or a
cup of thin cocoa
LUNCHEON
A lettuce and tomato salad, One very ripe banana
with nuts A spoonful or two of nuts
One vegetable--fresh peas, One or two figs, or two
beans, spinach, or onions dates
One very small, baked One glass of water
potato
One glass of water
DINNER
A salad of lettuce and tomatoes A salad
Choice of two vegetables--asparagus, Asparagus, or peas cooked
beans, beets, and served in the pod
onions, peas A baked white potato
A small, baked potato
A very small portion of fish,
or white meat of chicken
Menus No. 1 are slightly heavier than Menus No. 2. Choice may be
exercised between them, according to hunger, or according to activity
or amount of work done.
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