Excerpt from Strength and Diet: A Practical Treatise With Special Regard to the Life of NationsThat man thrives on almost any kind of diet common to a nation, the general conditions being favourable, That both races and individuals living entirely or chie¿y on plant food, or on plant food with the addition of eggs and milk, are stronger and happier, other things being equal, than races and individuals living chie¿y on the ¿esh of beasts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.