Identifier: secretsof00jameindiansrich (find matches)
Title: The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923 James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Foreign influences Indians of North America -- Health and hygiene
Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Radiant Life Press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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natural, restricteddiet. In that one course of procedure will be foundmore restored health than all the physicians of theworld can give otherwise in a score of years. Let uslearn to eat few^ things to a meal, and those of such anature that they will properly mix, and thus not overtaxthe stomach in its work of digestion. \Mien I sit down to the laden tables of my richfriends, or at the tables of the first-class hotels of thecountry, I sometimes find my judgment stronger thanmy perverted appetite. At such times I look over thebill of fare. I see ten or a dozen courses, varyingfrom cocktails, oysters, and fish to ice-cream, fruit, andwines. There are meats and vegetables, nuts andfruits, cooked and uncooked, pastries and jellies,soups and coffee, wines and spices, sauces, relishes,and seasonings galore, and I am more or less disgustedwith the whole business, and eat sparingly of but twoor three dishes. At other times, alas! my appetiteasserts itself, and I go the pace with the rest. Now,
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THE INDIAN AND DIET when all these things, so elaborately prepared, sodaintily served, so nicely eaten, are disposed ofand in the stomach, let me ask (without any desireto offend): Is there the slightest difference in the con-tents of the stomach of such a person and the stomachof a hoo; filled with swill? In the first case there iscocktail and caviar, olives and celery, oysters andsoup, fish and entremes, entree and roast, game andpunch, ice-cream and cheese, pastry and fruit, nutsand crackers, with water, coffee, tea, or wine to liquefyit all, all taken separately, but now mixed in onehorrible mess within, and in the case of the hog theywere mixed first and swallowed mixed instead of incourses. O men and women of the wliite race, of the supe-rior civilization, quit such gluttony and disease-breedingcourses! Get back to the Indians simplicity in diet.Learn the meaning of low living and high thinking.Stop pampering your sensual appetites and feedingyour stomachs at the expense of your

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