When these juices are taken to the digestive tract they are broken down into their component parts, free citric acid on one hand and free minerals, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc., on the other. The acid element being freed soon unites with oxygen from other foods, or from water, becomes oxidized and disappears in the sweat, urine, breath, as water and gas, leaving the mineral alkalis behind. But these do not remain free.
Almost at once they form new combinations by uniting with carbon from the starch, sugar or fatty foods and again become soluble salts, bicarbonates of calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, etc., and as such are taken into the blood, and these are the normal alkalis of human food, formed out of strongly acid fruits. These fruits, therefore, are called acid, but are alkali-forming, i.e., they form into alkalis in the body, although they are acid outside the body.”.
“There is flour and there is also white or bolted flour. Now bolted flour means flour from which the bran, the fatty germ and the brown flour all have been removed by sifting through bolters silk, a very fine meshed cloth which allows little else to pass through its meshes than the starch and gluten of the grain berries. It is a fact long since established that the greater part of the salts, fats, cellulose and vitamins of the grain berries passes over in the offal to be sold as feed for stock.
“This means that the growth vitamins are robbed from white flour; that the calcium and phosphorus for forming bones, the calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and fluorine that form the hard substance of the teeth and their enamel covering; that the sodium, potassium, iron, sulphur and all other important mineral substances have been largely removed from white flour, for the sole purpose of making it white, and this has been done to make it more commercially profitable.
“But in thus refining these elements out of civilizations flour, the millers remove some of the most valuable body- vitalizing and body-building elements, required for building and vitalizing the animal body, whether of man or bird or beast. Not only that, but some of the elements removed are needed by the body to enable it to make proper use in the body of those elements left in white flour after it has been refined.”.
“While white flour is still further subjected to a chemical or electrical bleaching process, after being robbed of its cellulose, mineral salts and vitamins, polished rice is moistened and then coated with talc, the substance sold in the shops as talcum powder, to make it still further white.”.
“Cereal foods that retain the life germ and bran are far more apt to spoil. Such foods are more vitalizing and instinct-guided insects know the vitalizing or life-giving foods and seek them to live or rear their young upon. Whole wheat flour is more apt to spoil than is white flour, for this reason. It is especially vitalizing and the instinct-guided insects are guided by their unerring instinct to do the right thing, to seek it out. Insects are rarely found in white flour, but especially in best white flour, meaning the whitest and most refined.
This is as true of the very highly refined cereals. There are not sufficiently vitalizing to attract insects. And if these are not vital enough to attract insects warned away from them by instinct that makes no mistakes, instinct planted within the insect to unerringly guide it to the right thing to do, what kind of an insects brain can that mother have who, knowing this, will continue to serve such foods in a large way to her growing children? “.
“We are accustomed to hearing the advocates of flesh-eating refer to the flesh-eating races, as the Esquimaux, as examples of human beings who keep well while living almost exclusively upon meat. These advocates do not tell us, however, that the Esquimaux eat only animal muscles and fat. Neither would they dare tell us so, for it would not be true.
“The Esquimaux, and other simple races living largely upon animal flesh, eat the muscles, fat, cartilage, or gristle, bones, brains and the internal organs, the lungs, liver, heart, pancreas, and, more important still, they drink large quantities of animal blood. What is of equal, possibly even greater, importance, they eat their animal foods freshly killed and to a great extent raw. So used, meat may well be called a natural food. Like all natural foods, it is rich in vitalizing growth and repair vitamins and salts.
“Is this the way in which civilized races eat their flesh? Never. As used by civilized races, meat must be well bled and, generally, well hung before it is fit to eat, and for all but the very few, the bones, cartilage, brains, internal organs and blood must be not even thought of as possible human food. Moreover, meat always must be cooked, generally well done and often fried. Often, too, it is re-cooked. What resemblance to natural can there possibly be in meat so treated? Positively none. And, if naturalness has been destroyed, it is superfluous to say that such food is unnatural food”.
“As it is with the grain, the most vitalizing parts are refused as rubbish and the least vitalizing parts are used as fuel or building material for human bodies”.
In 1914, when Dr. Robert G. Jackson M.D. was in his 40s, he developed a severe case of arthritis (probably rheumatoid arthritis) and when he was 49, his doctors gave him four years to live. He refused to accept the diagnosis and began to exercise more and sleep with his bedroom windows open. Long before such things were popular, he developed a health food diet of fruits, vegetables and his own line of health foods including Roman Meal bread. This bread was fashioned after the multi-grain bread ate by the Roman legions and included wheat, barley, oats, spelt and rye. Disease,” he said, “was due solely to man’s stupidity.”
Jackson started the Roman Meal Co. to manufacture his special diet foods. He went on lecture tours where he attracted large audiences. He bragged that “I am growing younger every year.” By 1930, at age 72, and in good health, he was a millionaire. He died in 1941 from complications of a broken hip. Roman Meal bread is still available in the United States.