When Dr. Tilden initiated the daily salad habit (this was back in the 1890's) the practice was vigorously condemned by the medical profession. Today many physicians and most nutritionists are advising the daily salad without giving credit where it is due. My own view is that two salads a day should be eaten--one with the starch meal the other with the protein meal.

The bio-chemist, Carlton Fredericks, advises taking vitamin capsules with starch. For more than forty years it has been the practice in Hygienic circles to take a large raw vegetable salad (leaving out tomatoes or other acid foods) with the starch meal. The salad has been a very large one, measured by ordinary standards, and made up of fresh uncooked vegetables. This salad carries an abundance of vitamins and minerals. The vitamins in these vegetables are the real genuine articles and no chemist's imitations of the real thing. No just-as-good substitutes for vitamins have ever satisfied the Hygienists. We take the real article or nothing. His capsule-eating is a commercial program and belongs to the drug fetish.

Mr. Fredericks, himself, points out the complementary action of the vitamins. We need, not just the vitamin B complex, but all vitamins. A large raw vegetable salad supplies several known vitamins and those that may exist but have not yet been detected. Vitamins not only cooperate with each other in the nutritive processes, but they also cooperate with the minerals in the body. These are supplied by the vegetable salad. To take vitamin preparations that are combined with calcium or iron or other minerals will not answer the purpose. These minerals are in non-usable forms. There is no better source of food substances than the plant kingdom — the laboratory and the chemist have not yet been able to concoct acceptable foods.