Errors in diet are very largely responsible for the majority of the chronic ailments which afflict the civilized portions of the human race. This is particularly true of maladies which affect the alimentary canal. It naturally follows that the adoption of a biologic diet is of first importance in any serious attempt to cure patients suffering from disorders of nutrition.



The following simple rules if faithfully followed should enable a patient who has changed his flora and gotten a new start in life by the aid of the fruit regimen and the milk regimen, to maintain and greatly add to the improvement which he has secured by the aid of these specific regimens.

1. Eat only natural foods; that is, those which are naturally adapted to the human constitution. The natural dietary includes fruits, nuts, cooked grains, legumes, and vegetables. Natural foods impart to the body the greatest amount of energy, and maintain normal conditions of life. No animals but scavengers and men eat everything.

2. Avoid meats of all sorts (flesh, fowl, fish, including "sea food"). These are unnatural foods. They are all likely to contain parasites of various kinds, and countless numbers of noxious germs. "Meat bacteria" or "wild germs," which infect the intestines, cause putrefaction and other poison-forming processes, and inoculate the body with colitis and many other diseases. These germs are not destroyed by ordinary cooking, such as stewing, broiling, frying, and roasting.

3. Take care to avoid an excess of protein; that is, the albuminous element which is represented by lean meat, the white of eggs, and the curd of milk. An excess of protein promotes putrefaction, and thus intestinal autointoxication, the chief cause of "biliousness," colitis, appendicitis, gall-stones, arteriosclerosis, possibly cancer, Bright's disease, and premature old age. Ordinary bread contains a sufficient amount of protein, as do also other cereals. Most nuts, also ripe peas and beans, contain an excess of protein.

4. Eggs should be eaten in great moderation, if at all. They encourage autointoxication, and thus often cause "biliousness." The yolk of the egg is more wholesome than the white. Eggs and even milk as well as meat may be discarded if nuts are eaten.

5. Such animal fats as lard, suet, and ordinary butter, should be avoided. They are difficult of digestion, and promote intestinal auto-intoxication, and thus cause "biliousness." Vegetable fats are more easily digestible, and do not encourage intestinal autointoxication. Butter must be perfectly sweet, and should be made from certified or sterilized cream.