HOW TO BEGIN THE USE OF UNCOOKED FOODS.

In dealing with the human body we must respect the laws of heredity and environment. What might have been natural a thousand years ago may be very unnatural to-day, and what was decidedly unnatural at that remote period of time may have become natural. The human body has the faculty of adjusting itself even to false conditions, through the long process of time.

The experiment may have killed a million or two people, and dethroned the mental and moral machinery of as many more, and shortened up the life period of several billion more, but “Stickatitiveness” will in time work things around until the very laws of nature seem to change to fit the false condition.

This, however, in reality is not true. The price for every violated law must be paid, and so long as it is violated, just so long will nature demand her settlement. The real penalty is the difference between what man is and what he would have been had he lived in obedience to the laws of his organization.

Since people have evolved into their present habits and customs, to correct them they must evolve out of them. Therefore in adopting the use of uncooked foods, it is safest to start on the evolutionary plan, gradually increasing the number of uncooked dishes, and decreasing the number of cooked ones, until all cooked and devitalized foods have been eliminated and the system has had time enough to adjust itself to the new conditions. This process can be hastened by simplifying the diet—by limiting it to a few things, which contain all the elements of nourishment.

Such foods should be selected as are not commonly cooked, such as all kinds of nuts or bananas and cream, for the heavy portion of the meal; and milk, dates, figs, lettuce or cabbage, and juicy fruits, melons and berries, to close with. The mixing of the following articles in the process of mastication develops a very delicious taste:

Pecan meats and cabbage.

Protoid nuts and apples.

Heavy cream and sweet apples.

Nuts, lettuce and olive oil.

Bananas, cream, dates and nuts.

Bananas, figs and cream.

Flaked wheat, dates, cream and nuts. } Thoroughly masticated.

Flaked oats, dates, cream and nuts. }

Sweet apples, nuts and cream.

Soaked prunes and cream.

Soaked evaporated peaches or apricots, raisins and cream.

Unfired bread and cream cheese.

Unfired bread, pecan meats.

Unfired bread, sweet butter and Brazil nuts.

Thorough mastication develops in all uncooked foods a new and delicious taste. When the saliva, which is an alkaline substance, begins to act upon the starch and other parts of these foods the change that takes place in the blended articles above tabulated creates a deliciousness that will win at once those who try these blends followed by thorough mastication.