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Show WHY NERVOUS DISEASES INCREASE. The London Lancet says "Nervous diseases and weaknesses increase in a country as the population comes to live on the flesh of the warm-blooded animals. This is a point to which attention has not been adequately directed. ‘Meat'-using that term in its popular sense-is highly stimulating, and supplies proportionally more exciting than actually nourishing pabulum to the nervous system. The meat eater lives at high pressure, and is, or ought to be, a peculiarly active organism, like a predatory animal, always on the alert, walking rapidly, and consuming large quantities of oxygen. In practice we find that the meat eater does not live up to the level of his food, and as a consequence he can not or does not take in enough oxygen to satisfy the exigencies of his mode of life. Thereupon follow many if not most of the ills to which highly civilized and luxurious meat eating classes are liable." |