| Show co FASTING ASA AS ASA ASA A CURE Recently Professor of the University of o Nebraska published a book on the subject of fasting describing the health bene bene- benefits tl file fits S to bo ho derived by reduced teed feed log Ing under proper lul guidance ance on the good to be obtained by tasting fasting a writer says Some of ot our learned medical gentlemen allow their patients todie to todie todie die by giving living them called so-called nour noun When a man Is desper desper- desperately desperately ill m food Is not nourishment A body dl diseased eased cannot absorb nourishment Food tood under such conditIons is apt to be a deadly poison poisons When a dog Is sick It wan wanders derv ders oft off hIdes bides away No dog doe tor to oblige an anxious family forces food down the sick tick dogs dog's throat and so It reco recovers ers A pa po patient bent tient Bith a fever abo e aboe e normal unless absolutely emaciated lack lack- lacking lacking ing strength and tissue to maintain life should take water and no other nourishment until normal temper temper- temperature at re is restored Any man near to normal weight can and should do without any food but water while fighting high temperature Food in- in interferes in lu interferes v a Ith the body's fight against poison polson It might be a mistake to recommend recommend mend fasting tasting as a cure-all cure In fact undernourishment is la found in many children and older folk toll causIng rickets scurvy and nervousness but there are of ot cases of over feeding which produces disease ease and break down the bod body body- A prominent medical man treating on the subject says Fasting Is a remedial agent of enormous power power-power power power for tor good and 10 power er for harm Nothing the doctor carries in his saddle bag ap approximates fasting In Its therapeutic possibilities In fact tact when v hen a doc doctor tor attends a patient through a along along along long h Ing him four kinds or of medicine four tour times every day It Is probable that the bon through which the patient has passed by reason of ot his loss lose of ap appetite appetite appetite petite t diarrhoea or other quality of his disease or the diet dietIng dieting lug Ing to which he was subjected in- in in influenced I both the patent and his dIsease far tar more than did the med medicine medicine which was given During the theT I v world orld war and thereafter two types of reports came back from the of at I atI countries of Europe From some o of the countries there came stories of war dropsy consumption rickets and a host of o other diseases dis eases ases ases coming as a result of o hunger due to Bar waz From other countrIes there 1 came cams stories of better health as the result of at hunger Men could do I more and and harder work There was less stomach trouble 1 Lion tion U er trouble gout Brights Bright's disease 1 and diabetes Holland and Denmark went hungry for four tears ears but never in all their his histories tories were nere ere the peoples of ot these the countries so healthy There must be a degree of ot con can consolation to those who go hungry or I who must e themselves of the luxuries of ot the table to know I that In their atlon they are i retaining health and strength That may be one reason re-ason wh why chil children dren In the slums survive under conditions of o poverty which seem to I be unbearable The law lag of ot compensation works In I many wa ways waB I |
