La Iniciación · Año III, Nº 23 · March 1944

1The excess of meats, instead of strengthening the body as is generally believed, makes its resistance and vitality gradually dwindle, owing to all we have said, and leaves it an easy prey to germs, whose dynamic, vital action, etc., are the causes of infectious illnesses. Let us not forget that germs find a fertile field of development wherever a putrefactive process exists.

2If we know how to keep the body clean by means of a rational, natural and minimally toxic alimentation, illness, old age and death will not attack it so rapidly and prematurely.

3All stimulants — as for example tea, coffee, alcohol, chocolate, etc. — are also toxic, and many of them have no nutritive value whatever.

4These stimulants, taken after meals as is commonly done, are still more prejudicial, for they retard the digestive process.

5They must, then, be substituted by fresh fruits or fruit juice (but not bottled, because these, in general, are nothing but water with essences that have nothing to do with the fruit).

6Eggs and lentils, like other dry legumes, should also be eaten in small quantities, or very rarely, because they are foods containing many proteins, which are what give origin to purines — these last substances giving origin to many of the toxic substances enumerated.

7For those who work physically, nuts are an excellent food; but, as their richness in fats and proteins is high, they must be eaten in small quantities and always combined with other fruits and vegetables compatible with them.

8The refining of foods is also prejudicial to man, especially that of flours, from which, by the excessive process of depuration, the mineral salts and vitamins have been removed, leaving them impoverished.

9Pastry, a treat for so many stomachs, should not constitute a daily food either, as it frequently does, because of the toxic products to which the digestion of starches and refined sugar gives origin.

10Eliminate also all sweets, caramels, etc., from which all energetic power has been subtracted and which, consequently, are substances that on fermenting convert into alcohols.

11Substitute them, then, with dates, raisins, figs, almonds, etc. Mothers do not imagine the harm they do their children when they foster in them the habit of eating bonbons, caramels, etc., which slowly assault those tender and delicate bodies.

12Let them be accustomed, on the contrary, from the earliest age to eat much fruit, bearing in mind that it is a true food and not a sweet or dessert, as it is generally considered.

13Fruit does not cause acidity, as is generally believed.

14Those who maintain this do not know thoroughly its composition and the products to which it gives origin in the digestive process.

15Acidity is not caused by fruit but by the previously eaten meat-based foods, besides many others such as flour, pastries, stews — and that by the excess of proteins they contain.

16On the contrary, fruit and raw vegetables, owing to the many mineral salts they contain, neutralise and contribute to eliminating the already existing acids.

17We must take as a norm to eat at least

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