body-weight."

"That would be as if a man of 150 lbs. weight should take 3+3/4 lbs.
sugar at a meal! And since it is excessive fruit you are warning us
against, can you tell me how many pounds of fruit--say, apples--one
must take in order to get that amount of sugar in a day? No less than
sixty pounds. Really your warning seems a little superfluous."

"It is all very well for you to scoff, Mr Taste, but if it were not
for me you would know nothing about the latest diseases. I really
believe you would be content to go right through life without knowing
that you had a duodenum or an appendix."

"Quite" assented Taste cheerfully.

ARNOLD EILOART, B.SC.

A SYMPOSIUM ON UNFIRED FOOD.

_In November, 1912, we published a letter from a reader containing the
excellent suggestion that readers who had experimented to any fair
extent with unfired diet should be invited to contribute to a
conference on the subject in_ THE HEALTHY LIFE, _and that the
symposium should be gathered round the following points:--_

(1) The effect of the diet in curing chronic disease.

(2) Its effect on children so brought up--_e.g._ do they get the
so-called "inevitable" diseases of chicken-pox, measles, etc., and
especially have they good (_i.e._ perfect) teeth?

(3) The effect of the diet in childbirth.

(4) The cost of maintaining a household in this way, as compared with
the cost under ordinary conditions.

(5) Is the diet satisfying, or is there a longing for conventional
dietary (often found amongst food reformers)?

(6) Is the diet quite satisfactory in winter?

_A number of interesting letters have been published this year, and we
shall be glad to receive a large number of personal experiences, but
they must be brief, and classified under the above heads as far as
possible. The following is a striking piece of personal
evidence._--[EDS.]

BUCKHURST HILL, ESSEX,

_28th April 1913._

To the Editors of _The Healthy Life._

DEAR SIRS,

As a slight contribution to the interesting discussion which is
taking place in your magazine, will you allow me to give you a
short summary of nearly sixty years experience of the effects,
in my own case, of flesh eating, vegetarianism and the uncooked
food diet.

This is not a fairy tale, as some may be inclined to think, but a
plain unvarnished statement of facts.

The flesh-eating period lasted for seventeen years. When three
mo