Most nuts are rich in the complex albumens so essential to the building of human tissues. The proteins of practically all nuts are adequate and any slight deficiency that may exist in a particular nut will be compensated by the albumens of green leaves.

Nuts are also valuable for their rich stores of minerals and vitamins and for their easily digested oils. Most nuts also contain readily assimilable sugars.

Consume fats in moderate quantities.

Fats--butter, cream, oils, etc.--retard digestion, especially protein digestion, thereby increasing gastro-intestinal putrefaction and thus overtaxing the liver and kidneys with the resulting poisons.

Fats are best added to foods after they are cooked, not while they are cooking, and should not be taken with a protein meal.

Cook But Few Foods And Cook These But Little.

This rule is given for those readers who are not yet ready to completely abandon cooked foods. There is no doubt in my mind that an exclusively uncooked diet is the ideal. Those who are not yet ready to wholly abandon cooking must learn to cook in a way to damage foods least.

Drink Pure Water Only.

There is but one drink--water. All other "drinks" are either foods (fruit juices, milk, etc.), or poisons (coffee, tea, cocoa, soda fountain slops, beer, wine, etc.). The coffee and tea user is likely to suffer from headaches when these poisons are discontinued. These will not persist for more than a few days and there should be no thought of returning to these poison habits.

Drink water when you are thirsty. It should not be taken with meals. Water should not be cold. Cool water is well. Drink it slowly, take all thirst demands. Do not force yourself to drink in the absence of thirst and do not get into the habit of routine drinking. Drink pure, not hard and not drugged waters.

Exclude Table Salt, Pepper (All Kinds), Cloves, Spices Condiments And Dressings From Your Diet.

These things have no value and serve no useful purpose in the body. They are one and all irritating. They pervert the sense of taste, retard digestion and induce overeating. Irritating condiments are potent factors in producing cancer of the stomach.

A normal person, eating natural foods and eating only when hungry, will find no need for "appetizers." The person who cannot enjoy his meal without the assistance of an "appetizer, would do well to miss the meal. Hunger is the best sauce.

Without the accustomed salt, vinegar, pepper, and other condiments, the food is likely to taste flat, dull and insipid at first. But soon the palsied nerves of taste are renewed, the thickened skin of the tongue is removed, and the eater discovers fine delicate flavors in his foods that he never dreamed were there.

Salt eaters who give up salt and return to a vegetable diet are almost sure to find that they will be forced to urinate frequently at night. As soon as the body has freed itself of its accumulated salt, this annoyance ceases.