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Show 'mmiraimmimmwrmmiimmiinmimmmmniiiniiiiim iiimmn 1111111111: I Health and Beauty X By I f. it imiiii. 11 DS. SOPHIA RHTJNSON iimii mil milium MEN WHO ARE VEGETAR- IANS A great percentage of men on the globe live largely on a vegetable veget-able diet. The Chinese and Japanese Japa-nese use beans quite extensively, as a source of proteid and energy. They prepare a curd from soy beans that is almost white and palatable. This is a staple article of diet. It is not appetizing but highly nutritious. Parts of Asia are so overcrowded overcrowd-ed that the people have been obliged to live on the cheapest and most easily-produced food that wil sustain life, and keep up nutrition. A class of white people in this country are anemic and undernourished, under-nourished, because they are not only ignorant of the subject of nutrition, nu-trition, but quite unwilling to learn; and utterly refuse to cultivate culti-vate a taste for foods, to which they are not accustomed. The U. S. government spends a great deal of money annually in studying and introducing Into this country new food plants. In this way billions of wealth have been added to our nation. Even before the Jap invasion, China was a greater sufferer from over-population, drought and famine. fam-ine. For this reason, she has been compelled to utilize the sources of food supply, which she could obtain ob-tain most easily and abundantly. Perhaps our original ancestors were vegetarians. At any rate we are told in Holy Writ that they subsist upon the fruits of the earth. As far back as human records extend, man has lived to a large extent upon the soy bean. The coolies of Japan will sometimes run for fifty miles a day several days in succession on a diet of rice and bean curds. These men are small in stature but amazingly muscular. Many of them have tasted tas-ted but little meat in their lives, and then only an occasional fish. |