As one looks through the many careful dietary studies that have been made in recent years, it is easy to find striking illustrations of people, and communities of people, who have lived for long periods of time on dietaries so strikingly simple and meagre that it seems difficult at first glance to believe their daily needs could have been entirely satisfied. Yet, such observations are quite in accord with the facts we have been presenting, and they afford additional evidence that the artificial dietary standards that have been set up are widely at variance with the real requirements of the body for food. It may be quite true that many of the people referred to have been and are faddists, with peculiar notions regarding food, based on religious or other scruples, but that has no bearing on the main contention that they have lived for many years on amounts of food ridiculously small as compared with the ordinary customs of mankind. Thus, in Professor Jaffa’s report[65] of investigations made among fruitarians and Chinese of California is an interesting account of a dietary study of a family of fruitarians, consisting of two women and three children. They had all been fruitarians from five to seven years, their diet being limited to nuts and fruit, except for the addition of celery, honey, olive oil, and occasionally a small amount of prepared cereal food. This family was in the habit of taking only two meals a day; at 10.30 in the morning and at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The first meal always consisted of nuts and fruit, the nuts being eaten first. At the second meal, nuts were usually replaced by olive oil and honey. The nuts made use of were almonds, Brazil nuts, pine nuts, pignolias (a variety of pine nuts), and walnuts. Fruits, both fresh and dried, were used, the former including apples, apricots, bananas, figs, grapes, olives (pickled), oranges, peaches, pears, plums, and tomatoes. The dried fruits were dates and raisins. [65] Bulletin No. 107, Office of Experiment Stations, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 1901, from which the descriptions given have been taken.