The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28: The Independent Health MagazineVarious
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The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28: The Independent Health Magazine
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Health -- Periodicals; Medicine, Popular -- Periodicals; Nutrition -- Periodicals
(3) With regard to childbirth, I previously followed the advice of
Dr Alice Stockholme in "Tokology," avoiding flesh meats and
bone-making food and adopting a diet of fruit (chiefly lemons) and
rice, brown bread and nut butter, wearing no corsets and taking
frequent baths. The effect during pregnancy was highly
satisfactory. I enjoyed perfect health the whole time, free from
the usual discomforts, and at childbirth I received similar
results: a speedy and safe delivery. Indeed, since marriage, my
husband, baby and myself, have been singularly free from even
minor complaints.
(4) As we do not have the specially prepared, expensive vegetarian
foods (supposed to substitute meat), but mainly the simple foods, I
consider the diet less costly than the meat diet.
(5) We are honestly quite free from the craving for meat or meat
foods.
(6) In the summer-time we live principally on salads, cheese,
rissoles, etc., made from beans, peas, lentils, etc., fresh fruits,
brown bread and nut butter. In the very cold weather we seem to
need rather warmer stuffs, such as porridge (carefully cooked) and
cooked vegetables, etc.
D. GODMAN.
* * * * *
BRIGHTON.
I have read with the greatest interest the correspondence in _The
Healthy Life_ on the unfired diet. As the majority of your
correspondents have not been living _exclusively_ on unfired food,
or have only done so for short periods, may I suggest that some of
your correspondents or contributors live on an _entirely_ unfired
diet, _excluding dairy produce_, for a period of six or twelve
months and then relate their experiences. In this way some valuable
evidence would be obtained. At any rate I am prepared to do this
myself.
With reference to living on the unfired diet on 4d. a day, I have
often had two unfired meals for less than 4d., and two meals a day
are sufficient for anyone. Of course to do this one has to buy the
food which is in season and therefore cheap. Dried fruit and nuts,
followed by a cress salad with oil and lemon dressing, does not
cost more than 2d. An unfired rissole made from grated carrot and
flaked peanuts cost at most a penny, and if followed by dates or
figs would be a sufficient meal, and 2d. would cover the cost.
In conclusion, I have no difficulty in producing a "two course"
unfired meal for 2d.--but perhaps I should have left the subject of
cost for Dr Bell to deal with. Yours faithfully,
ALFRED LE HURAY.
MORE ABOUT TWO MEALS A DAY.
With reference to my article, "Two Meals a Day," which appeared in the
May issue of _The Healthy Life_, several correspondents have asked me
to give more particulars about my life and diet. I do so gladly; but I
must be brief, as the demand upon space in this magazine is now very
great.
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