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Show EAT FRUIT IF YOU CAN GET IT. Dr. Simma, while lecturing in Santa Barbara, expressed uurprise at the amount of meat and greasy and concentrated foods consumed by the people ol California. He was surprised sur-prised because California bad such an abundance of fruit such fruit as might tempt an auchorite to break his fast and vigil to feaBt upon lruit that while it was suffered to lie upon tlie ground and rot from very superfluity super-fluity of abundance at home, commanded com-manded princely prices and opened tbe purse etrinea of even tlie economic econo-mic poorabroad. He was surprised, moreover, bccauio fruit, as a diet, was best abapted to the physical economy of man in so mild a climate and was incomparably more conducive con-ducive to health. Concentrated foed, pies, cake, meat, more especially es-pecially pork and lard, in all their modifications, were heating, not strength-giving nor producivo of brain or nerve force. They are the foods appropriate to the lile of men in cold climes. Fruits and vegetables vege-tables are the chief diet appropriate to the lite of men iu theaeuii-tropice, if men would be healthy and would live out their fullest, inchest possibilities, possi-bilities, they will cease to be governed by mere habit ia eating, and will regulate their diet to meet the changed conditions in their surroundings. surround-ings. In support of Dr. Simms, (and his teachings are not original but are simply the application to this locality of medical teaching everywhere), wo quote from the Medical Journal: "A distinguished physician has said that if bis patients would make a practice of eating a couple of oranges before beak fast, from February to Juno, his practice would bo gone. Tho principal evil is that wc do not eat enough fruit; that we injure its finer qualities quali-ties with sugar, that we drown them with cream. We need the medicinal action of the pure fruit acids in our system, and their cooling, corrective inilueuces." |