"The sun is productive of life. Fire is destructive "of life."

"Cooking destroys the life cells in food - the cells "which make and sustain life in man. Cook a seed "thoroughly and see whether it will sprout when "planted; or graft a dead cutting to a live limb and "see whether it will grow, or whether it will help the "growth of the live branch. All live vegetation is "capable of either reproducing its own kind, or of "furnishing life or vitality to other organized living "things; take away its life and it can do neither. "Life cannot come from death."

"The man who eats cooked food subsists upon "the few cells which escape destruction by fire. He "is obliged, therefore, to take large quantities of food "to secure the required amount of nourishment. He "is surfeited with material which his system cannot "appropriate - dead matter which must be gotten rid "of. The system cannot expel this waste material "fast enough, and much of it ferments or decays in "the stomach or intestines, furnishing food for the "germs and bacilli which daily enter the system."

"The raw food diet prolongs life. uric acid is

"now recognized as one of the chief causes of old age. "This poison is present to a greater or less extent in "all persons who eat devitalized food, and the accu-"mulation increases with the age of such persons. "Another cause of sensibility is the presence of an "oversupply of earthy salts, or mineral matter, in the

"blood and bones, this is also being produced by the "eating of emasculated, or lifeless, food. These foreign

"substances ossify the bones and obstruct the blood-"vessels, interfering with the exercise of vital functions, and diminishing the vitality more and more." "By natural dieting these calcareous deposits, "uric acid and other poisons, are absorbed, or dis-"solved and eliminated, and their further accumu-"lation prevented; thus juvenility is retained and "'old age' warded off."

The more one looks into the merits of raw food, the more one becomes convinced of its merits. Can anyone imagine a more beautiful or cleanly diet than nuts in the shape of blanched almonds, English walnuts, Brazil nuts or pecans; add to this some "zwei-back" lightly buttered, then include some of the luscious fruits and you have a diet fit for the gods - nuts, fruits, and cereals.

The combinations of raw diet are endless. Those given on pages 69 and 94 are sufficient to give one an intelligent idea of uncooked foods wholly so or in part. For further information the reader is referred to published works on the subject.