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Excerpt from Fads and FeedingFood is required by the body for two chief pur poses, viz. To generate heat and to produce and maintain the structures under the in¿uence of life and exertion. The importance of the latter is the more apparent, since wasting of the body is familiarly associated with decay of life, but the former is so much the more urgent, that whereas the body may waste for a lengthened period and yet live, it rapidly dies when th...

Excerpt from Fads and Feeding Modern civilization seems to bring many undesirable factors with it, and one which stands out prominently is the "fad" which has crept into every department in our daily life. Medicine has of late made great advances, especially on its "preventive" side, but where most physicians fear to tread, some well-meaning individual steps forward and unauthoritatively and unscientifically shows the public that for centurie...