Ingredients
- 12 ounces of solid food per day
- two ounces of solid food
- one egg a day
Directions
upon them and forcing them to accept stimulating, irritating and unnatural things, they cease to per- form their functions, and sullenly accept almost anything we choose to load upon them.
Luigi Cornaro was a Venetian nobleman and philosopher. Lie became a physical wreck at 40. He ceased philosophizing about ethics and such things and decided to ascertain ivhy.
He very soon solved the problem. It was over- eating. He began by restricting himself to 12 ounces of solid food per day. As he advanced in age he still further reduced his daily ration, until he partook of only one egg a day, in addition to a very little wine and water.
After adhering to this custom for many years and enjoying perfect health, he one day partook of two ounces of solid food, an experiment which nearly cost him his life. Some of his best works were written between the ages of 86 and 95. He lived to be 103 years old, while the best medicine men of his day told him at 40 that he could never reach the age of 50.
In subsisting wholly upon uncooked food, the natural tendency is for all the organs that are employed in converting food into energy to be- come normal, and make no demands except those required by nature. They require more mastica- tion, which is nature’s greatest guard against over-