Motion Picture Story Magazine (Feb 1914 - Sep 1916 (assorted issues))

MOTION PICTURE MAGAZ1 VE 175 Teaching People How to Eat for Health, Strength and Efficiency By ARTHUR TRU^BUSWELL, M. D. IF YOU have ever lived on a farm you have heard of " balanced rations" and what remarkable results they have accomplished when fed to cattle and other animals. The United States Government has a department devoted to teaching farmers how to feed their stock so as to develop it to the highest point of health and efficiency. Yet until recently I have never heard of "balanced rations" for humans or, in fact, of any serious attempt made to teach people what to eat and what not to eat. I was therefore greatly interested in the work of the Corrective Eating Society of Maywood, New Jersey. It seems that this Society is dedicated to teaching people how to combine and proportion food for greater health and efficiency and their work is meeting with success so great that it almost seems too good to be true. Twenty years ago Eugene Christian was at death's door. For years he had suffered the agonies of acute stomach and intestinal trouble. His doctors — among them the most noted specialists in this country — gave him up to die. He was educated for a doctor, but got no relief from his brother physicians, so as a last resort he commenced to study the food question, especially its relation to the human system, and as a result of what he learned he succeeded in literally eating his way back to perfect health without drugs or medicines of any kind — and in a remarkably short space of time. To-day Eugene Christian is a man 55 years young. He has more ginger, more vitality, and physical endurance than most youngsters in their 'teens. He literally radiates energy and power. So remarkable was his recovery that Christian knew he had discovered a great truth which fully developed would result in a new science — the science of Correct Eating. From that day to this he has devoted his life to telling others of the power of Correct Eating. From his research work he became convinced that 90 per cent, of the ills of mankind originate in the stomach and intestines. He found that these ills responded to corrective eating. Since then he has told 23,000 people how to eat, what to eat and what not to eat with the result that almost invariably they were brought back to a type of health that they never dreamed they could reach. Though he had treated so many thousands of people personally, Christian says he felt hampered. He wanted to tell millions instead of thousands. So he founded the Corrective Eating Society with this object in view. Now the Society is teaching us that the reason most people are below par physically and mentally most of the time — the reason that business men break down at middle age — and. the reason that the average life of man is only 39 years, is simply because we don't know how to properly select and combine our foods. Very often good foods, when eaten in combination with other good foods, create a chemical action in the digestive tract and are converted into dangerous toxic poisons, which are responsible for nearly all sickness. In other, words, good foods wrongly combined will cause acidity, fermentation, gas, constipation and numerous sympathetic ills leading to most serious consequences. These truths have been strongly brought out by Professor Metchnikoff in his treatise on the "Prolongation of Life" and by many other modern scientists. But most efforts in the past have been designed solely to remove the effect, by cleansing out the system and removing the poisons after they had formed, wholly disregarding the cause. The Corrective Eating Society, however, has gone a step further. Instead of waiting until the poisons accumulate, they tell you how to prevent them. They have shown that just as some combinations of food produce slow consuming poisons that wreck the system, other combinations of food taken in the right proportions become the greatest tonics for health, efficiency and long life ever discovered. And a wonderful feature of their method is that results come practically with the very first meal. As Christian explains, in no case are patented or proprietary foods prescribed. All of When answering advertisements kindly mention MOTION TIC TI KE MAGAZINE.