say, bread, which contains
fifty per cent. of starch and sugar. As the starch, if it is to be
assimilated, must be (and as a general rule practically all is)
converted into sugar during digestion, we get from 1 lb. of bread 8
oz. of sugar (to be exact, nearly 9 oz., because starch forms rather
more than its own weight of sugar). But the weight of bread allowed
for daily food, if no other starchy or sugary food is taken,
is--according to orthodox physiology books--1 lb., 11 oz., yielding
over 14 oz. of sugar. Now I reduce the starchy food to 8 oz. or less
(_No Rheumatism_, p. 34), yielding at most about 4+1/2 oz. of sugar. You
see, then, that the patient can now afford to take even 2 lbs. of
fruit, because this will bring his total of sugar up to only 6+3/4 oz.,
as against 14 oz. allowed by the orthodox. And if, as I recommend (p.
33), fruits containing but little sugar (especially cucumbers) are
taken, his total sugar under my regime will be even less than 6+3/4 oz.

"As so many people fail to distinguish between fruit sugar occurring
naturally in fruit and ordinary separated and concentrated cane sugar,
or even beet sugar separated by various chemicals--'shop sugar,' in
fact--I translate for you a passage from Dr Carton's _Trois Aliments
Meurtriers_[20]:--

[20] _Some Popular Foodstuffs Exposed_, translated by D.M. Richardson.
1s. net. Daniel.

"'Let us proceed now to the study of the third deadly food. The sugar
contained in vegetables and raw fruits is a living aliment,
physiologically combined with the protoplasm of the vegetable cells,
associated with ferments and with vitalised chemical salts. The
absorption of this natural sugar is effected by a harmonious contact,
by an exchange of energy between the living vegetable cells and our
living digestive cells.

"'The sugar of commerce, on the contrary, is a dead food which has
lost all association with vegetable protoplasm, with vitalised mineral
salts and with oxidising ferments which would render it physiological.
It is nothing more than a drug, a dangerous chemical, because Nature
has nowhere presented it to us in this form.... Its absorption
involves an anti-physiological irritation which over-excites the
viscera, and when repeated ends by profoundly altering them.'"

"This is all very well," cries Pseudo-Science, "but people may eat too
much fruit."

"Certainly, but then I warn them at once," quoth Taste.

"But they have an idea it is good for them, and