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 many years, but it is difficult to induce people to leave off habits, even when those habits are known to be injurious and shorten the existence of the human body.

There are people, however, who hold their health in high enough esteem to be willing to give a little attention to food and drink. Such people realize that good health can be turned into success, into money making, prosperity, and the ability to do things in this world. There is no habit the creature acquires which produces as much real enjoyment as the old-fashioned habit of being thoroughly well.



Such a feeling all day long cannot be compared in value to the temporary, short-lived pleasure of drugging the body with any of the known drugs, tea, coffee, tobacco, whisky or morphine. When a man can inhale a deep breath of pure air and feel that every part of the machinery of the body is working perfectly, there comes a sense of comfort, easy content and thankfulness to the Creator for the mere privilege of living.

People say they cannot quit coffee. It is to just such that Postum Food Coffee