1. Our bodies are made up of the food we eat. "As a man eateth so is he." Quality of tissue depends on quality of food.

2. Food may be of poor quality when eaten or it may become contaminated during a process of retarded digestion, and so be impure as it enters the blood.

3. Excessive quantity is sure to impair quality of food and of the food laden blood.

4. Chronic disease is largely due to defective food analysis in the body. These conditions are all preventable. Knowledge is power.

5. Know food values, the composition of foods and the relation of food elements to body needs.

6. See to it that your daily ration is a balanced one. Do not consider the question of calories an arbitrary one. Remember that individual needs and conditions must be considered and rules modified. Estimate your calories for two weeks. How much are you eating, and is it the right amount? Could you do just as well on less or do you need more? Sit in judgment on your own case.

7. Remember that excessive calories can not make up for deficient vitamines. That the body can not utilize food unless the necessary ferments of life processes are backed up by an ample vitamine supply. Know the vitamine foods and avoid a devitalized diet. Eat freely of raw foods and do not forget the value of green vegetables.

8. Avoid a monotonous diet and thus the danger of deficiency in quality as well as in quantity of proteins.

9. Do not consider it a hardship if you find it necessary from the standpoint of economy to limit your meat supply. Remember that an adequate, properly balanced diet is very possible without the use of flesh food, and that the fleshless diet offers many advantages healthwise.

10. Keep out of your food those things that make it "hot when it is cold" and that tend to produce irritated catarrhal conditions of the digestive mucous membrane. Remember that the mucous membrane may be irritated not only by condiments, but also by excessive and superheated fats, improperly masticated and indigestible food, and by cane sugar in concentration.

11. Do you long for a good complexion? Eat less free fat, more raw carrots and green vegetables.

12. Remember that your health and efficiency are impaired, your possibilities for length of life lessened by the use of beverages and foods which continually, even though slightly, stimulate because of drug principles that they contain.

13. Remember that bread is the "staff of life" only when it contains its nutritive elements entire, and that the use of the whole grains is economy from every standpoint.

14. Regard desserts with suspicion, use them with caution and when used, let them supply a need rather than serve as an excess.

15. A simple variety at a meal is a great advantage and the best combination is a well-balanced ration.

16. No one dietetic plan is a "cure all." All rules have their exceptions. The only safe plan is to have a thorough understanding of dietetics and of the principles of nutrition with the use of common sense and good judgment in their application.

17. The physical foundation for mental and spiritual growth is most important. The greatest work that can be accomplished is that of feeding the child in such a way as to insure the highest type of physical, mental and spiritual development. The self-discipline and control that this will foster is not the least of the good results.

18. Conserve your food intelligently and thus your health. Economy is spending not less, but more wisely. Much that is expended for food could be used with better and far more lasting advantage, in some other way.

19. Remember that good food may be wasted, or spoiled in the preparation, and that cooking should be a science as well as an art.

20. Remember that how you eat is quite as important if not more so that what you eat. Food eaten properly is much less liable to be taken in excess. Proper and thorough mastication will cover a multitude of dietetic sins. If you must hurry, eat less.

21. Allow ample time for stomach digestion by sufficient rest between periods of work so that this your faithful friend, upon the integrity of which so much depends, may not give out before its time.

22. System and regularity are as important in the work of the digestive tract as in all other business. Therefore, plan for regular habits of eating. Never eat between meals.

23. If fluid taken at meals hinders the proper mastication of your food, go on a dry diet.

24. Do not forget that adherence to principle in eating is an evidence of strength of character and that he who eats to live will longer live to eat.

25. Above all do not be a fanatic.

"The object of physical health is not health as an end, but as a means to the end of efficiency." - Dickenson.