Succulent vegetables, chiefly valuable because of salts and juices.
Fats and oils, no matter what their source, are concentrated foods which furnish heat and energy when burned in the body.
When people are free and active in the fresh air they can eat in a way that would soon ruin the digestive powers of those who lead more artificial lives. It is a well known fact that we can go hunting, fishing, tramping or picnicking and eat mixtures and quantities of foods that would ordinarily give us discomfort. The freedom and activity, the change and the better state of mind give greater digestive power.
Those who wish to live their best must pay some attention to the combination of food. It is true that very moderate people, those who take no more food than the body demands, can combine about as they please. These moderate people do not care to mix their foods much. They are satisfied with very plain fare. Much as we dislike to acknowledge the fact, nearly all of us take too much food, even those who most strongly preach moderation. By combining properly much of the harmful effect of overeating can be overcome.
FRUITARIANS.
I class as fruitarians those who eat only cereals, fruits and nuts. This may not be a correct definition, but after reading much literature on dietetics it is the best I can do. Their combinations should present no difficulties.
They should take cereals once or twice a day; nuts once or twice a day; fruit once a day in winter and once or twice a day in summer. The winter fruit should be sweet part of the time. In summer it can be the juicy fruit and berries at all times.
The fruitarians should be careful to avoid the habitual combination of acid fruits with their cereals.
One meal a day can be made of one or two varieties of fruit and nothing else. Nuts may be added to the fruit at times.
Another meal may be made of some cereal product with nut butter or some kind of vegetable oil.