se with whom you live.

One can, however, maintain good health without being what might be
termed a dietetic crank. To be sure, where one is suffering from a
disease or is definitely in need of some special diet in order to secure
certain results, a very rigid diet is of great importance and should be
adhered to strictly. After such results have been achieved, however, and
after normal health is regained, you can secure at almost any well
supplied table a selection of foods which will furnish satisfactory
nourishment.

Some intelligence in selection, however, is necessary. There are a few
articles of food that it would always be well to avoid. For
instance, nearly all white-flour products are to be condemned. This
means not only bread but biscuits, cakes, crackers, and pastries made of
white flour. Unquestionably, if one is using meat freely, white-flour
products are not nearly so harmful as when taken with a vegetarian
diet. The meat supplies some of the deficiencies, though not all. At
one time I had an experiment made which proved in a striking
manner the defective character of white flour as a food. The subject
tested the results of a fast of two weeks. He weighed himself before
and after the fast and several times during its progress. He
accurately determined his strength at all times, before, during, and at
the completion of the fast. A considerable time thereafter he
experimented with a diet of white-flour products for the same period
of two weeks, eating white flour as commonly prepared, in the form
of bread, cakes, etc. The result showed that he lost more weight and
more strength while following the white-flour regimen than he had
while fasting absolutely. This would seem to indicate that, in this
case, at least, white-flour products were not a food, but a slow-
acting poison.

Among foods especially valuable I would call attention to green salads.
If possible one should eat some food of this kind each day, more
especially during warm weather. They are of great value as blood
purifiers and they supply to a very large extent the mineral salts.
Various combinations can be used in the form of salads, and the most
satisfactory dressing is probably a combination of olive oil and lemon
juice. I do not recommend vinegar partly because it is seldom pure, and
one never can tell what combination of chemicals it contains.
Lemon juice is preferable even to the