nt substance is more favorable to health, endurance, and power of
mind.

Variety of food is desirable and natural; it is abundantly supplied by
the growth of the soil under cultivation.

Races of intelligence and strength are to be found subsisting and
thriving on an exclusive plant grown diet.

The health and patience of vegetarians meet the social, mental and
physical tests of life with less disease, and less risk of dependence in
old age.

Meat eaters have no advantages which do not belong also to those whose
food is vegetable.

Plant food, the principal diet of the world, has one serious drawback;
it is not always savory, or palatable.

Plant diet to be savory requires fat, or oil, to be added to it; nuts,
peanut, and olive oil, supply it to the best advantage.

Plant diet with butter, cream, milk, cheese, eggs, lard, fat, suet, or
tallow added to it, is not vegetarian; it is mixed diet; the same in
effect as if meat were used.--Elmer Lee, M.D., Editor, Health Culture
Magazine.

CONTENTS

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NO ANIMAL FOOD

I--THE URGENCY OF THE SUBJECT 9

II--PHYSICAL CONSIDERATIONS 17

III--ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 35

IV--THE AESTHETIC POINT OF VIEW 46

V--ECONOMICAL CONSIDERATIONS 52

VI--THE EXCLUSION OF DAIRY PRODUCE 58

VII--CONCLUSION 63

NUTRITION AND DIET

I--SCIENCE OF NUTRITION 70

II--WHAT TO EAT 82

III--WHEN TO EAT 97

IV--HOW TO EAT 103

FOOD TABLE 108

RECIPES 111

NO ANIMAL FOOD

I

URGENCY OF THE SUBJECT

Outside of those who have had the good fortune to be educated to an
understanding of a rational science of dietetics, very few people indeed
have any notion whatever of the fundamental principles of nutrition and
diet, and are therefore unable to form any sound opinion as