ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
DIET
A Treatise on the Food Question
IN FIVE VOLUMES
Explaining, in Plain Language, the
Chemistry of Food and the Chemistry of
the Human Body, together with the Art of
Uniting these Two Branches of Science in the
Process of Eating so as to Establish Normal
Digestion and Assimilation of Food and
Normal Elimination of Waste, thereby
Removing the Causes of Stomach,
Intestinal, and All Other
Digestive Disorders
BY
Eugene Christian, F. S. D.
Volume I
NEW YORK CITY
CORRECTIVE EATING SOCIETY, Inc.
1917
Copyright 1914
BY
EUGENE CHRISTIAN
Entered at
Stationers Hall, London
September, 1914
BY
EUGENE CHRISTIAN, F. S. D.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published August, 1914
TO THE
MOTHERS
AND TO THE NOBLE WORKERS
IN THE GREAT CAUSE OF HUMAN HEALTH
AND OF HUMAN SUFFERING
THESE VOLUMES ARE
Dedicated
BY
THE AUTHOR
PREFACE
Countless centuries have come and gone and have left on the earthmyriad forms of life; but just what life is, from whence it came,whether or not there is purpose or design behind it, whether or notall the sacred books are mere conceptions of the infant mind, of thewhence and whither, we do not know; but when we put life beneath thesearchlight of science, we do know that it is a mere assembling ofionic matter into organic forms, and that this strange work is done inaccordance with certain well-defined laws.
We know that these laws are a part of the great cosmic scheme. Inharmony with them works evolution, which tends to lift to higher andhigher degrees of perfection all forms of both animate and inanimatelife. We believe that if all the natural laws governing life could beascertained and obeyed, the number of disorders or interferences withNature's scheme would be very greatly decreased.
Man's system of co-operating with his fellow-creatures, whichwe call civilization, has imposed certain restrictions, duties andlimitations upon him, which make it impossible for him to live in[viii]strict accordance with these laws; therefore ifhe would have his birthright, which is health, he must employ scienceto fit him into his artificial environment.
Man has been brought to his present state of physical developmenton the rural, outdoor, close-to-nature plan, and since he must live inhouses and pursue occupations foreign to those through which he wasdeveloped, he must make corresponding changes in the material fromwhich his body is constantly being repaired and made; therefore, asthe selections, combinations, and proportions of the various things heneeds for nourishment are determined by his age, activity, and exposureto the open air, if he accurately or even approximate