The Art of Living | by J. S. Will
Life is a beautiful possibility, and we must strive to live long and well, in health and happiness. If we would accomplish this we must learn how to live; then live it. The specific object for which this book has been written is the Teaching of Health, so that it may prove a source of strength to the thousands of individuals who may be more or less invalided, as well as a beacon light to those who might run on the shoals of ill-health without due warning. In Teaching Health it contributes to the general fund of knowledge, aiding as well in the betterment and happiness of humanity in the world at large.
| Title | The Art of Living |
| Author | J. S. Will |
| Publisher | J. S. Will |
| Year | 1906 |
| Copyright | 1906, J. S. Will |
| Amazon | The Art of Living |
Introduction- Life is a beautiful possibility, and we must strive to live long and well, in health and happiness. If we would accomplish this we must learn how to live; then live it. The specific object for which t...
- Natural Man. Golden Age, Fruit Age
- Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. - Pope. Golden Age IN the traditions of all nations there constantly occurs the idea of a lost paradise where man ...
- Man Naturally Is A Vegetarian
- It is also evident that the food of all animals was originally derived from the vegetable kingdom, which is the storehouse of all nutrition, as the animal organism cannot directly assimilate the elem...
- The Mouth-Treatment Of Food: Mastication Or Chewing, Digestion Begins In The Mouth
- Thinking, reasoning man is not naturally carnivorous. The teeth, the stomach, the structure of the alimentary canal, and the entire organism, all show beyond a reasonable doubt that man is not to be c...
- How To Chew, Insalivation, No Necessity, For Medicine
- How To Chew Thorough mastication of food cannot be done with soft foods. For this reason hard foods must be used and for those whose teeth are not of the best, or who have tender gums or few teeth, t...
- Chewing Prevents Over-Eating, Chew More, Eat Less. Full Stomach
- Chewing Prevents Over-Eating By complete mastication, hunger is satisfied with one-half or even less than half The food usually eaten, and thus it prevents over-eating, which is the soil in which n...
- Empty Brain
- If the food is bolted, if the sense of taste is continually outraged, its power for discerning the limits of appetite becomes dulled and the sensitive guide is destroyed which indicates the time when ...
- The Digestive Action Of Saliva, Saliva Kills Germs, Digests Food, Increases Saliva
- The Digestive Action Of Saliva Saliva Kills Germs Saliva has long been recognized as one of the principal factors in the process of digestion on account of its action upon the stomach. It was also k...
- The Science Of Breath - Breathing, Air Is Food, Open Windows
- The Science Of Breath - Breathing Breath is Life. Air Is Food LIFE is absolutely dependent upon the act of breathing: Breath is Life. To breathe is to live, and without breath there is no life....
- Breathing Exercises, Water Drinking, Overdrinking Water
- Breathing Exercises 1. The Complete Breath. Stand or sit erect, breathe through the nostrils, inhale steadily, first filling the lower part of the lungs, which is accomplished by bringing into play t...
- Quality Of Water, The Chemistry Of Food, Proteids Composition, Normal
- Quality Of Water Distilled water is undoubtedly the safest water to drink; next to this comes water which has been boiled for fifteen or twenty minutes. Filtered water cannot be depended upon, the fi...
- Uric Acid, Food Perversion
- Uric Acid An excess of albuminous roods, as occurs in the overeating of meats, nuts, eggs, etc., owing to the inability of the system to oxidise or properly burn them out, results in the deposition o...
- Uric Acid
- Uric acid is known to play a very important role in the production of disease. Many eminent English and French physicians have shown that uric acid is responsible for the greater number of diseases wi...
- Cereal Dietetics
- Cereal Dietetics The golden secret of the sheathed seed - with bent head drooping. THE Cereals or Grains. - The seeds of the cereals are, of all the products of the vegetable kingdom, those best ...
- Dry Diet, Cereals Composition, Meat. Fish. And Fowl, Meat Dietetics
- Dry Diet The use of imperfectly cooked cereals is without doubt responsible for a great share of the prevailing-dyspepsia among civilized people. Oatmeal porridge, cracked wheat, and similar preparat...
- Meat Like Nuts, All Food Alike, Meat Vs. Nuts
- Meat Like Nuts As has been stated under Chemistry of Food, the various proteid substances exist principally in nuts, peas, beans, and lentils, meats, eggs and milk. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrog...
- Meat-Poisons, Appendicitis, Cancer
- Meat-Poisons Even if meat be kept in a refrigerator and under the best possible conditions, the putrescent condition must always exist, if not in one degree then in another, and, in whatever stage, i...
- National Vice, Meat Unclean
- National Vice The excessive use of meat is almost a national vice, and as such meat is charged up, rightly or wrongly, with the majority of the diseases resulting from uric-acid formation; a conditio...
- Milk Dietetics
- MILK is commonly regarded as one of the wholesome and perfect of foods. This is true only in a limited sense, in so far as it applies to the young or new born mammal, for which it is exactly adapted. ...
- Ripe Cheese, Milk Products, Milk Dietetics. Infant Feeding, Immunity
- Ripe Cheese Cheese is popularly regarded as a food difficult of digestion, but this has doubtless been much exaggerated. Unquestionably cheese is a very rich food and must not be used in excess, and ...
- Bringing Up By Hand, In Approximate Figures, Milk Absorbs Poisons
- Bringing Up By Hand Bringing up children by hand is always fraught with more or less peril to the infant and it demands the closest and most anxious consideration. Cow's milk is the nearest approac...
- Sterilizing, Impoverishes Milk, Cathcart Sterilizer
- Sterilizing Milk kept a few days may be perfectly sweet - that is, unsoured - but it has a different taste and appearance and shows a tendency to separate into serum and the more solid portions, whic...
- Sterilizing, Impoverishes Milk, Cathcart Sterilizer. Continued
- When four weeks old the baby's stomach will hold twice as much food, or two ounces for a feeding. The whole twenty ounces of food should then be divided into the ten bottles, putting two ounces, or fo...
- Weaning
- Weaning takes place naturally at the age of eight to ten months. If the mother is not strong it is advisable to wean the child early. Weaning should never be done suddenly, but should be extended over...
- Proportioned Bills Of Fare, "As An Egg Is Full Of Meat."
- Proportioned Bills Of Fare THE following schematic or proportioned Bills of Fare include raw diet in its purity, and raw diet modified, both with and without animal foods. There are those who take an...
- Fruits, Fruit Dietetics, Fruit Soups
- Fruits Water Fruit Sugar Pro-teids Fruit Acid Pectos (Jelly) Salts Fibre Waste Fuel Value per lb. in Calories Apple.... 85. 8. 0....
- Tropical Fruits
- Many of the tropical fruits, notably the banana and the pineapple, as they arrive in the northern markets of the United States and Canada, are not only unwholesome but, positively, most indigestible i...
- Fruit-Cures, Constipation
- Fruit-Cures Unquestionably an exclusive diet for a period of three to seven days and upwards has a marked and distinct effect upon the metabolism or tissue change of the human body. The grape cure ...
- Nut Dietetics
- And close at hand the basket stood. With nuts from brown October's wood. AS with fruits, so with nuts, there are many erroneous ideas and impressions, prevailing, regarding their dietetic usefulnes...
- Peanut Butter, Almond Butter, Brazil Nut Butter, The Cocoanut, Malted Brazil Nuts
- Peanut Butter The first step is to lightly brown, but not roast, the peanuts; being careful not to overbrown or scorch them. This can be done in the ordinary stove oven. If the raw peanuts be obtaine...
- Nut-Milks - Almond, Brazil, Pecan, etc, Nuts' Composition, Vegetable Dietetics, Vegetables' Composition
- Nut-Milks - Almond, Brazil, Pecan, etc May be made by using one tablespoonful of any of the nut-butters, or an equal amount of nuts, grated with a nutmeg grater; first making a paste with boiling wat...
- Proportioned Bills Of Fare, Spinach, Asparagus, Sugar Dietetics, The Sweet Tooth, "Sugar Appetite"
- Proportioned Bills Of Fare - Continued From Page 64 Raw Diet Modified 1. Fruit Juice Strawberries. Oranges. Fruit Salad. Hoe Cakes. Zweiback. Butter or Nut Butter. Eggs Natural or Poached. Rice,...
- The Craving For Sweets Natural, Cane Sugar Is Not A Natural Food, Starch Indigestion. The Evil Effects Of Cane Sugar
- The Craving For Sweets Natural A beautiful problem in chemistry is the building up or oxidation of starch. As a laboratory experiment we can take ordinary starch, and by means of heat and oxidation b...
- Cane Sugar Retards Digestion, Bile Poisoning. Jaundice. Gall Stones
- Cane Sugar Retards Digestion Experimentation has proven that cane sugar has a decided inhibitory or retarding effect upon digestion, the addition of one fourth of an ounce of sugar to three ounces of...
- Diabetes, Sugar Biliousness. Liver Destroys Poisons, Obesity. Sugar Makes Fat
- Diabetes When sugar is used in large quantities, as is likely to be the case when it is taken in its free form, so great a quantity is sometimes carried to the liver that it is unable to retain as la...
- Eat Fruit Sugar Not Candy, The Raw Food Question
- Eat Fruit Sugar Not Candy Sugar is a most wholesome article of food, but not so ordinary cane or granulated sugar. Sugar in the form of sweet fruits is harmless. Diabetics can use apples and most oth...
- Eat Fruit Sugar Not Candy, The Raw Food Question. Continued
- The sun is productive of life. Fire is destructive of life. Cooking destroys the life cells in food - the cells which make and sustain life in man. Cook a seed thoroughly and see whether it wil...
- Overeating, Bad Habits Of Childhood
- Overeating It is difficult to speak to the belly, because it has no ears. - Plutarch. Bad Habits OVEREATING or gluttony is one of the greatest sins perpetrated against the human body. The habit ...
- Physical Sins, The Perils Of Overeating
- Physical Sins Herbert Spencer, a philosopher with prophetic earnestness, writes: Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Men's habitual words and actions imply the idea t...
- Excess Of Harmless Food Is Poison. The Dangers Of Overeating. Overeating Produces Calculi, Overeating Produces Appendicitis, Fear Of Proteids
- Excess Of Harmless Food Is Poison. The Dangers Of Overeating. Overeating Produces Calculi Overeating is fraught with greater peril than the mass of the public commonly suppose, and to impress this fa...
- Overeating Produces Ptomaines, Food Should Never Be Taken In Excess, Meal Plan, One Meal Plan
- Overeating Produces Ptomaines The condition under which ptomaines form is when the proteid foods are used in excess as occurs in overeating. This process probably takes place in the colon, and result...
- Two Meal Plan, Three Meal Plan, Two Meal Plan - Detailed, No-Breakfast
- Two Meal Plan The two meal a day plan is the prevailing custom of the world, and no matter what a man's occupation may be, two meals a day will furnish him with all the nourishment necessary for his ...
- Two Meal Plan, Three Meal Plan, Two Meal Plan - Detailed, No-Breakfast. Continued
- I have tried all plans and pursue Plan A in the winter, which is as follows : In the morning, seven o'clock, the juice, only, of an orange followed in a few minutes by a cup of hot water to which a ...
- Bathing - Baths
- Like a nymph in the bath. THE ruins of the ancient Roman and Grecian baths, truly magnificent buildings scattered throughout Europe, tell us bathing was a national virtue amongst those peoples. Th...
- Morning Bath, Scrub Bath, Friction Bath, Cold Bathing
- Morning Bath The proverbial cold morning bath is one of the most powerful of all known tonics. It should be taken immediately on rising. The temperature of the water should be as cold as can comforta...
- Natural Bath, Night Bath, Exercise
- Natural Bath No one need forego the luxury of a bath on account of its expense. Water is the only requisite, and a pair of willing hands. Aside from this an ordinary basin, or tub, is the only other ...
- Clothing, A Rational View Of Eating
- Clothing The clothing of the human body is analagous in a way to the warming of a house: a question of how to keep the proper degree of heat within. Hence the kind of clothing we wear has a very impo...
- Clothing, A Rational View Of Eating. Part 2
- One of the most advanced physiologists of our time, Voit, of Munich, has found, however, by careful investigations carried on for a number of years, that even at the most strenuous work the body consu...
- Clothing, A Rational View Of Eating. Part 3
- If one desires to be cool in hot weather it can only be accomplished by eating those foods which do not possess great heating power. This means one must eat the foods having a low heat power, fresh fr...
- Germs - Microbes, In A Web
- Germs - Microbes In this connection the question may arise as to the influence of germs or microbes in disease. Germs or Microbes of whatever character are utterly powerless to injure a thoroughly he...
- Food Combinations, Dietetic Pitfalls
- Food Combinations Seemingly simple, yet the subject of food combinations is one worthy of the serious attention and study of every individual. Few persons recognize the importance of the subject, oth...
- The Nature Of Disease
- DISEASE is a condition about which the ordinary individual usually knows nothing, leaving it all to the doctors. This is a decided mistake. Every individual owes it to himself to make himself as famil...
- The Nature Of Disease. Continued
- So long as the people can be kept in ignorance of disease, in general, so long as the press through the agency of newspapers, magazines, and various other publications give space to advertisements whi...
- Corset Diseases, The Enslaving Drugs Alcohol, Tobacco, Tea, Coffee, Morphine, Opium
- Corset Diseases It would seem that, on the ground of comfort alone, the wearing of corsets would be a thing of the past. Yet the wearing of corsets is one of the greatest evils with which women direc...
- The Tobacco Habit, Tea And Coffee Habit
- The Tobacco Habit Through long years of custom, the Tobacco Habit has become to be looked upon as one possessing no serious importance. This is a gross mistake, and the sootier the public become awak...
- Mental Culture. Fear, Worry, Nervousness, Christian Science, Mind Cure, Fear
- Mental Culture. Fear, Worry, Nervousness, Christian Science, Mind Cure 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. THE nervous and mental hygiene, or health, of each individual begins at birth, and en...
- Worry, Worry-Cure, Chronic Invalidism
- Worry The forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares. If it were possible for me to teach humanity how not to worry, I think I would have accomplished a work far-reaching an...
- Worry, Worry-Cure, Chronic Invalidism. Part 2
- The products of digestion in an unhealthy person - that is, in one suffering from indigestion - are alone and of themselves sufficiently powerful and poisonous to produce irritation of the nervous cen...
- Worry, Worry-Cure, Chronic Invalidism. Part 3
- The minutest quantity of this kind of temper or will-power, instilled or inoculated into the mind of a worrier, will ferment. a determination to quit worrying - to get well. This is the essence of t...
- Nervousness
- Nervousness, or nervous exhaustion, the terms are almost interchangeable, is only one of many of the varied forms of worry. Many other sub-divisions of nervousness are manifested in the harmful mental...
- Christian Science
- Christian Science is another of the newer teachings, which assumes that there is no such thing as disease, reasoning it out so : What is termed disease does not exist. It is not mind nor matter. Huma...
- Christian Science. Continued
- Undoubtedly thousands of individuals suffering with imaginary diseases, have been cured by Christian Science, Mind-Cures, Magnetic Healing, etc., etc. Let them be cured by all and any means, the more ...
- Mind-Cures
- This is an age of Mind-Cures as well as an age of confusions - the false prophet age, when the inexperienced pupil would supplant the master, stealing his mantle for the influence of its shadow - the ...
- True Mind Cure
- Religious faith should be the best preventive against the maladies of the soul or mind, and the most powerful means of curing them. In the religious state of mind man becomes invulnerable. Feeling him...
- The Emotions - Mental Habits
- Behind all other factors and all other causes determining health and disease, lies one - the predominant one - the mental thought or attitude; so that what we are mentally and physically is largely th...
- The Emotions - Mental Habits. Part 2
- Experience shows that moral circumstances are potent for good: pleasing and delightful emotions and serene and joyous impressions will restore the drooping spirits, reanimating and invigorating the wh...
- The Emotions - Mental Habits. Part 3
- It matters not what may be the cause of the trouble in the anxious mind, the results upon the body are the same. Every function is weakened, and under the continual influence of a depressed state of m...
- The Emotions - Mental Habits. Part 4
- It is the same spirit of restlessness or activity which characterizes man the world over - the spirit of travel, of ambition, of the expectation of doing or becoming something better, of becoming poss...
- The Emotions - Mental Habits. Part 5
- We are all careful to safe guard our money and our other valuables. We are also careful to safe guard our lives, and it is probably on this account we lock the doors of our houses at night to protect ...
- The Power Of Cheerfulness
- Each one is so apt to think that his own conditions, his own trials, troubles, sorrows, disappointments, reverses, or his own struggles, as the case may be, are greater than those of the great mass of...
- Neurasthenia - Nervous Exhaustion, Peter's Vision
- Neurasthenia - Nervous Exhaustion Neurasthenia, nervous exhaustion, nervousness, and worry are all of the same cult. When it is remembered that neurasthenia is a condition of nerve tire or exhaustion...
- Neurasthenia - Nervous Exhaustion, Peter's Vision. Continued
- The following abstract from an article by Sidney H. Beard is pertinent and highly interesting : - It will be noticed that of the creatures let down in the sail, no fish are mentioned; also that Peter...
- The Ethics Of Flesh-Eating, Fasting
- The Ethics Of Flesh-Eating A final word in regard to the ethics of flesh-eating, and we will have done with it. This is a matter which demands the careful attention of every right minded and thinking...
- The Ethics Of Flesh-Eating, Fasting. Continued
- A vital point in the consideration of this question is that the excessive use of flesh meats, or in fact an excess of any of the other proteid foods, eggs, nuts, or the legumes, results in an excess o...
- The Superstition Of Medicine
- THE Superstition of Medicine, or the belief that medicines cure disease, is a relic of what may be called a Dark Age, an age extending back almost a thousand years before the birth of Christ. The hist...
- The Superstition Of Medicine. Part 2
- Some saints had a decided inclination for medical specialties. In case severe epidemics were prevalent, it is likely that the churches very often resembled actual hospitals. So long as the patient wa...
- The Superstition Of Medicine. Part 3
- While on the one hand there were saints - medical saints - who performed miraculous things for the good of the people, on the other hand we have the influence of the devil, the Christian successor of ...
- The Superstition Of Medicine. Part 4
- Astrology at one time played a very important part in relation to human affairs. It was claimed that the sun, moon, planets and zodiac regulated not only man's life, either for or against his welfare,...
- The Curse Of Patent Medicines
- Patent medicines are a curse because of two very important reasons. First, in that so long as they are exploited by the power of wealth and press, it is practically an impossibility to get the ear or ...
- The Art Of Living. Living To Eat, Eating To Live
- The Art Of Living. Living To Eat If thou wouldst enjoy a long life, labour to bring thine appetite to reason. SOME people find a large portion of enjoyment when they can just sit down and enjoy th...
- The Art Of Living 100 Years
- That one may attain the age of one hundred years is no visionary or chimerical statement. According to physiological or natural law, the duration of man's life should be five times the period necessar...
- The 20th Century, Or 100 Year Health Code, Breathing, Eating, Drinking, Bathing
- The 20th Century, Or 100 Year Health Code 1. Breathing should be deep and full. 2. Mastication and lnsalivation should be slow and thorough. Proteid foods must be sparingly partaken of at all times....
- Life
- Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn upon the horizon's verge. FOR ages philosophers and scientists have sought to solve the mystery of life - the world's greatest mira...
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