[Specially Prepared Health Foods]
O blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure. He who has thee has little more to wish for; and he who is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.—Sterne.
Give a wise man health, and he will give himself every other thing.—Colton.
It is health that makes your meat savory, your drink palatable, your sleep refreshing, your delights delightful, and your pleasures pleasurable.—Combe.
The world is in need of knowledge how to prepare and use simple, inexpensive, healthful foods. As diseases increase in the animal creation, it will be more and more necessary for those who desire to preserve their health to come back to the diet originally given to man,—a diet consisting chiefly of fruits, grains, and nuts, and various legumes, roots, and herbs. At the rate disease is increasing at the present time, it will not be long before it will be unsafe to use animal products of any kind. It is well, therefore, for all to learn how to prepare foods without them.
Various nut, cereal, and legume preparations well supply the place of flesh-meats. The different nut and vegetable oils take the place of butter, cream, and other animal fats.
In the use of nuts, care should be taken not to use them too freely, as they are a very rich and concentrated form of food. Eaten sparingly in their natural state in connection with the meals, or properly combined with other less concentrated foods, they fill an important place in a natural dietary.
A little experience in the use of vegetable oils will convince any one that they are not only palatable, but far more cleanly and wholesome than many of the ordinary fats used in cooking.