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of raw vegetables (well cleansed), some raw fruits to follow, with a
little cream. Dr. Leonard Williams insists that salads should consist
of a variety such as lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, mustard and cress,
watercress, radishes, young cabbage, young carrots, brussels sprouts,
nasturtium leaves, dandelion leaves, parsley, onion and beetroot. Use
any kind of dressing. Take uncooked fruits with no sugar in place of
pudding. Tea and coffee after lunch retard digestion. I would suggest
a cup of weak tea instead of the heavy black coffee. Our man of 45
and 50 should not indulge in the foolish afternoon tea with cake, bread
and butter ; simply take a cup of tea and nothing else. The stomach
takes four hours to deal with a meal, and a brain worker should come
with an appetite to his 7 o'clock dinner. Of course, if a man is dieting
himself for obesity, he should not eat potatoes and never take sweets
or sugar; beer is strictly forbidden, but a little whisky may be taken
by the man who is used to it. At the evening dinner, fish, fowl or
game is better than veal, pork or roast beef. Fruit salad and a little
cream, with savoury cheese, complete a good dinner. Eat nothing
after 8 p.m., for bearing in mind that a solid meal takes four hours to
digest, anything eaten after 8 p.m. may wake you up at 2 in the
morning; many insomnias are dyspeptic in nature. If one has a
tendency to insomnia a hot bath before bed time helps; hypnotics
should never be taken. Believe me or not, such a diet will help a man
to be middle-aged until 70, and will make a new man of the surfeited,
corpulent, poisoned man we meet so often in the streets. Could these
men just see the heart-broken fight which their livers are making
with the toxins from their concentrated, devitalised foods, could
they see the liver congestion, they might amend and flee from
the wrath to come. But no, they will not give up their gross feeding,
consequently their auto-intoxication brings us to the consideration of
the last and almost the most important part of my paper, that is, the
production of a high blood pressure, leading eventually to arteriosclerosis,
with a general break up of heart, kidneys and blood vessels.
To illustrate the seriousness of high blood pressure and arteriosclerosis,
that is thickened arteries, let me explain that although the
average duration of life has increased during the past 50 years,
nevertheless the death rate of men between 45 and 65 has increased.
Further, one-third of all the deaths between 55 and 65 are due to
disease of the heart and blood vessels. Nearly 40 per cent, of the
deaths of people over 60 years are from diseases of the blood vessels
and Bright's disease. We talk of cancer with bated breath, but that