Muscle, brain, and diet : a plea for simpler foods / by Eustace H. Miles.

  • Miles, Eustace, 1868-1948.
Date:
1905
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Muscle, brain, and diet : a plea for simpler foods / by Eustace H. Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not that my method will assuredly suit everyone else, but that it may possibly suit many, and that at the very least it is worth trying. I point out, for example, the saving and gaining oi money and time, the simplicity, the improvement in health, the improvement in games and physical powers, the improvement in brain-work, and the increase in happiness, in my ozvn case: and I also insist on this—that, whether the results will be similar in your particular case can be decided only by a personal trial—in your case a scientific 1 and fairly long experiment can alone answer your question, “ Will it suit me as well ? ” But I have been led to publish my experiences not so much by these letters of inquiry, as by the astonish- ing ignorance about everything to do with food (except, perhaps, its taste) on the part of nearly all those with whom I have discussed the subject—an ignorance which is all the more lamentable, and yet all the more hopeful, because it so often seems to be accompanied by a confession of ignorance and a desire to learn and to help others to learn. One single example of a good intention frustrated by such a want of “ education ” did much to open my eyes to the need for such a book as this : a lady, who heard of a starving and miserable family, immediately in the kindness of her heart (but also—such is life— in the ignorance of her mind) sent off a large parcel of tea, sugar, beef-tea, and arrowroot. Science and experience together had convinced me that a certain amount of proteid or albumen is essential to life : now, i See especially p. 284.