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80 with the natural signs of health. Fat is not health. Bloated red cheeks are not by any means a sign of health. They are a sign of disease and such a person is just "ripe " for the first microbe that happens to come his way.

Then again, many vegetarians are poorly nourished. They do not eat the proper foods. They eat too much white bread and other foods that do not contain the necessary elements to feed the body in proper proportion. Many vegetarians also eat too frequently, do not fast when nature commands, and they suffer from overcrowding their digestive organs, just as does the meat eater.

Vegetarianism is unquestionably the natural diet of man. He will attain a more mature age when subsisting on this character of food than when on flesh diet. When the fact is considered that nearly all of our own medium class farmers are practically vegetarians, not from choice, but because of their inability to get fresh meat there remains but little to support the flesh-diet theory.

Attention is often called to the British as the