The Means Founded In Nature For Maintenance Of Youth And Beauty.

Following the previous general arguments to the effect that mucus is the main cause of disease and ageing, there is only left to show in particular and on the various organs in how far the mucus of culture-food acts beauty-hindering in the construction of the human body, and produces symptoms of ugliness and age.

If according to paradisic primary laws the lungs and skin would be given nothing but pure air and sun-electricity, and the stomach and bowels nothing but sun-food, i.e., fruits, which are being digested almost without rest, secreting only mucus, paste and germless cellullose, there seems to be no reason why the tube-system of the human body should become defect, weaken, age and finally break down entirely. Instead of the living energy-cells of the fruit one eats "killed food," which" biologically is meant for beasts of prey, i.e., food chemically changed by air-oxydation (decay), dead-boiled and robbed of its energy. Mucus accumulates especially in the heating channel (stomach and bowels) of this tube-machine, and slowly clogs up the channel and filters (glands). The sum-total of this defilement causes chronic defects, makes grow old and is the main factor in the natur e of all disease. Growing old, therefore, is a latent disease, i.e., a slow but constantly increasing disturbance in the operation of the motor of life.

The chemistry of victuals gives the most reliable proof that deformity and decomposition have their source mainly in the lack of minerals in boiled culture-food.

If human ugliness as such, lost beauty and symptoms of growing old can be made accounted for by wrong nourishment, then the theory of beauty and rejuvenation leads to a dietetic cure and a respective improvement of nourishment. But inasmuch as beauty, especially human beauty, cannot be absolutely defined, because everybody has a different taste, I can limit myself only to the main standards of aesthetic demands.

The white corpse-color of the light and sunless man of culture cannot be called beautiful, and emanates mainly from the white corpse-color of the dead-boiled, wrong food. What wonderful color a man can get who feeds on "bleeding" grapes, cherries and oranges and who takes systematically air and sun-baths, cannot be imagined by the modern artists of "pleinair"-painting. Mucus and at the same time lack of earthy matter means as much as lack of color. Just compare the food tables of Dr. König and you will find that the mucusless food, the fruit and the vegetables occupy the first place as regards their contents of necessary earthy matter, especially lime. The size of a person, i.e., the circumference of the skeleton depends, for instance, mainly on the amount of lime contained in the food. The Japanese want to increase the size of their race by meat thereby from bad to worse. All the pining away of size, deformities of the bones and especially the decay of the teeth is due to lack of lime; through the boiling of milk and vegetables the lime is being eliminated. The enormous poorness in mineral culture-food, especially of the meat as compared with fruit, is responsible for the coming of a toothless human race, as predicted even by physicians, and which is not merely a phantom of imagination. And instead of by fruit these stuffs, are being substituted by an organic preparation. The human organism does not assimilate one single atom mineral substance which has not transmigrated into a plant or fruit, i.e., which has not become organic. The most modern disfigurement, the obesity, has clouded up our aesthetic feelings in this regard so much, that we even do not know any longer the limit of the normal. I do not even consider the bred "man of muscles of classic type" beautiful and as a standard for the ideal type of Germanic and Aric races. Weight, shape and especially circumference of body are too great. Every accumulation of fat is pathologic and in this measure unaesthetic. No animal living in freedom is upholstered with fat, like so many men. The reason is only too much food and too much fluid; relaxation and clogging up of the entire system of vessels are the natural consequences. Grape-sugar of the fruits and their nutritive salts are the right sources for a firm muscle -substance, by which a body disfattened and dismucused by fasting can be quickly rebuilt.

The stoutness of face and body are dangerously on the increase; it is ugly and certainly pathologic. It is a curious fact that this accumulation of fat is considered not only beautiful, but even a sign of over-abundant health, while the daily experience teaches that the slim, permanently youthful type is in every respect of a greater force of resistance and generally reaches a higher age.

- I should like to be shown just one person of 80 or 90 years with such obesity, which to-day is pronounced as beautiful and healthy, and with which it is believed to fatten away tuberculosis. If fat people do not die in their best years through palpitation of the heart, apoplexy or dropsy, they succumb to a slow emaciating and the desire for food decreases in spite of all artificial stimulations of the appetite. The skin, especially of the face, having been subjected to extreme tension, becomes foldy and wrinkly. It has lost its youthful elasticity on account of insufficient and unhealthy blood circulation as well as lack of light and sun. And now this relaxation of the skin is being tried to be prevented by salves and powders externally! The distinction and beauty of the features, the pureness and healthy color of the complexion, the clearness and natural size of the eyes, the charm of the expression and the color of the lips age and become ugly to the extent of the expression and the color of the mucus in the bowels, which we have recognized above as the central depot from which all the symptoms of disease, and therefore those of age, are being fed. The "beautiful roundness of cheeks" which at the same time increases the size of the nose, is nothing but a clogging up by mucus, which, as is well known, breaks out in case of a cold in the nose.