DIET AND HEALTH

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Abbott, like Carque, favours fruit and vegetables, and he has not a good word to say for milk and eggs. The argument “milk was made for calves” may be impressive, but in practice milk is invaluable, especially to the sick. I certainly do not know of any substitute for it. After all milk is liquid beef. It has been used for invalids and for healthy grown-up people since time immemorial, and the most magnificent physique is found among those tribes and races who live on a lacto-vegetarian diet, such as the hill men in Northern India, among whom cancer is unknown.

Abbotts volume consists largely of recipes, and those vegetarians who wish for tasty dishes which require little cooking will find many appetizing ad attractive recipes in the volume. However, I would recommend my readers to replace Nutter by butter and to use whole-meal flour and other natural plain food instead of artificialities. Those who desire to adopt a fruitarian diet should remember that fully ripe fruit is almost unobtainable in England. The fruit offered at the fruiterers is very nice for table decoration, but the bulk of it is quite unripe and unfit to eat, while the nuts, which are the staple food of fruitarians, are, as a rule, stale and worthless. No self-respecting monkey would touch them.

There are people who proclaim themselves vegetarians, but who eat fish. Olga Hartley has provided for the fish-eating vegetarians a little book, Meatless Meals, Is. 6d., published by Messrs. Burns. Oates & Wash-bourne. Ltd., 43-45 Newgate Street, W. C. I, which contains a good deal of sense. We read:.

“Then English way of cooking green vegetables is to boil them in plenty of water to make them look as green when they come to the dinner table as if they were still growing in the garden. The water containing all the most valuable salts, the vitamins being destroyed by the soda is then thrown away. The French, among other nations, have other methods and ideas. They use only a little water so that when the vegetables are cooked, there is just a spoonful or two of liquid left in the vessel.

The vegetables are served in this juice with a piece of butter stirred into it at the last moment. Not only are they a much better flavour cooked in this way, but they are a much better food, only they are not such a cheerful colour. Of course the pot must be watched, lest the water should boil away entirely and, if necessary, more boiling water must be added. Peas cooked like this should have a spring of fresh mint put in with them, also a lump of sugar well rubbed with a raw onion. Carrots should also be cooked with a little sugar and so should tomatoes.”.

Those who wish to feed well and wisely should endeavour to get as much natural food as possible in the most natural condition, in perfect freshness and thoroughly cooked by the sun. Unfortunately totally unripe gooseberries, apples, etc., are bought which are not fit to eat by any animal, not even by pigs, and they are then cooked with plenty of demineralized and de- vitaminized white sugar, and offered to us as a health food.

The chemists, the dietetic specialists, and the middle men have much to answer for. I should not wonder if a special hell awaited those who ruin the constitution of the people by ruining their food.

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J. Ellis Barker
James Ellis Barker 1870 – 1948 was a Jewish German lay homeopath, born in Cologne in Germany. He settled in Britain to become the editor of The Homeopathic World in 1931 (which he later renamed as Heal Thyself) for sixteen years, and he wrote a great deal about homeopathy during this time.

James Ellis Barker wrote a very large number of books, both under the name James Ellis Barker and under his real German name Otto Julius Eltzbacher, The Truth about Homœopathy; Rough Notes on Remedies with William Murray; Chronic Constipation; The Story of My Eyes; Miracles Of Healing and How They are Done; Good Health and Happiness; New Lives for Old: How to Cure the Incurable; My Testament of Healing; Cancer, the Surgeon and the Researcher; Cancer, how it is Caused, how it Can be Prevented with a foreward by William Arbuthnot Lane; Cancer and the Black Man etc.
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