Destructive and Constructive Food Mixtures

Destructive and Constructive Food Mixtures by Dr. Axel Emil Gibson was published in Los Angeles in 1914. Dr Axel Gibson is also the author of other interesting books, such as; "Prolonging Life Through Diet," "Sugar and Salt — Foods or Poisons (1914)" "Life and Death of Diet" "Individuality in Diet," "Facts and Fancies in Health Foods (1921)" "New Light on Living (1922)" etc. All of these books contain a lot of good information about eating the proper foods, and good health. (162 pages)

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Index:

Preface — Chapter I. Self-indulgence, and the Law of Evolution — Chapter II. Egotism as a Factor in Diet — Chapter III. The Scientific Reasons for and against the Mixtures of Different Cereals — Chapter IV. What Food to be Cooked, and What not to be Cooked, to Insure the Best Assimilation and Nutrition — Chapter V. The Process of Digestion — an Electric Phenomenon — Chapter VI. Mixture of Fruits and Vegetables — Its Effect on Digestion — Chapter VII. Soups — Chapter VIII. Gravies — Chapter IX. Pastry — Chapter X. Meat as a Factor in Diet — Chapter XI. Sugar — a Friend or Foe to Human Life? — Chapter XII. Milk as Food, and Milk as Poison — Chapter XIII. Prof. Metchnikoff and the Sour Milk Bacillus — Chapter XIV. How Certain Combinations, such as Milk and Fruit, Fruit and Cereals, Milk and Meat, Affect Digestion and Nutrition — Chapter XV. The Effect on the System of Ice Cream and Malted Milk — Chapter XVI. Can the Chefs and Captains of our Kitchen be Trusted with our Physiological Welfare — Chapter XVII. The Failure in Depending on Symptoms for a Diagnosis of Digestive Disorders — Chapter XIX. The Only Royal Road to Diet — Chapter XX. The Right and Wrong Side of Coffee — Chapter XXI. How to Attain the Greatest Degree of Efficiency — Chapter XXII. Diet for the Lean and for the Fat — Chapter XXIII. Obesity — Chapter XXIV. Practical Health-Culture for the Busy Man — Chapter XXV. Specified Bill-of-Fare for one Week's Hygienic Diet — Chapter XXVI. Remarks, Reminders, Summary — 1. Drinking at Meals — 2. Eating between Meals — 3. How to prepare a Scientific Mayonnaise — 4. The Different Effect on the System between Vinegar and Lemon Juice — 5. Starchy Food for the Child and for the Man — 6. Quick Guide to Hygienic Food Combinations — 7. The Role of Bread in the Bill-of-Fare — 8. Individuality in Diet — 9. Quantity and Quality in Diet — 10. The Problem of Salt in Diet — 11. Yougurth, and its Dietetic significance — 12. The "Dreadnought"— Stimulant — 13. Dietetic "Don'ts"

Preface:

.....This book is written for those who are seriously looking for light on the obscurities of diet. The world is full of sufferers who have sinned against the laws of diet through ignorance of facts. For the complexities of modern life, with its staggering artificiality in every expression of living — where the natural instincts and cultured restraints are lost in a whirlpool of desires and unnatural appetites — it is a task of no ordinary magnitude for the individual to succeed in selecting with calm and unerring mind the food-stuffs conducive to his health, strength and usefulness.
.....Such a power of selection is attainable only on a basis of knowledge concerning the vital factors involved in the relation of certain foodstuffs to physiological chemistry — and, furthermore, in his moral courage and determination of will, to live up to this knowledge. For the power of truth, like any other power, is obtainable only through practical application.
.....It is in the realization of this fact — the supreme importance to human life and usefulness of an adequate knowledge concerning the principles underlying our food-stuffs and their destructive and constructive mixtures — that this book has been produced. It proposes to offer a practical health-guide to the individual who takes his life seriously, and who is desirous to know the laws of health, not in order to evade them, but to obey them.....