That a strict vegetarian diet is the necessary thing for good health I deny. The sheep, the cow, and horse are vegetarians and they are short lived. The eagle, the lion and man, eat animal food and they are long lived.
I may be prejudiced, but it does seem to me that the strict vegetarians are skinny, sallow looking lot of humans, speaking generally. I do find that the healthier specimens of vegetarians are those who eat plenty of eggs and drink plenty of milk, both of which are animal food, and both of which have nearly all the elements necessary to sustain life.
I don't like the fads in the matter of eating. The amount a person should eat is in exact accord with the law of compensation.
The human body is a machine from a food standpoint. It is an engine that has work to do and accordingly the amount of fuel necessary for the engine should be in proportion to the amount of work that engine is called on to perform.
The hotels, restaurants and food purveyors invent palate tickling food to tease the human to eat, and hotels and restaurants are mostly patronized by people who do not have much physical work to do; the consequence is they eat too much.
You do not often find dyspepsia or indigestion among men or women who work hard physically.
You who work indoors with little physical exercise will find wonderful benefits if you will cut down the fuel.
You will get sick if you pile in more fuel than is necessary for the engine.
If your engine needs twenty pounds of steam how foolish it is to keep up a hundred pounds pressure.
If you had five-horsepower work to perform how foolish it would be to install a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound engine.