THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION 125subjection for a long time, hence the great sustaining
power of the vegetable.
In animal food the cells have already become more
individualized, and as the animal has a desire body
giving it a passional nature, it is easily understood that
when we eat meat it is harder to overcome these cells
which have animal consciousness resembling the
dream state, and also that such particles will not stay
long in subjection, hence a meat diet requires larger
quantities and more frequent meals than the vegetable
or fruit diet. If we should go one step farther and eat
the flesh of carnivorous animals, we should find
ourselves hungry all the time, for there the cells have
become exceedingly individualized and will therefore
seek their freedom and gain it so much the quicker.
That this is so is well illustrated in the case of the wolf,
the vulture, and the cannibal, which have become
proverbs for hunger, and as the human liver is too
small to take care of even the ordinary meat diet, it is
evident that if the cannibal lived solely upon human
flesh instead of using it as an occasional “tidbit”, he
would soon succumb, for while too much of the
carbohydrates, sugars, starches, and fats do little if any
harm to the system, being exhaled through the lungs as
carbonic acid gas or passing as water by way of the
kidneys and the skin, an excess of meat is also burned
up, but leaves poisonous uric acid, and it is being more
and more recognized that the less meat we eat the
better for our well-being.
It is natural that we should desire the very best of
food, but every animal body has in it the poisons of
decay. The venous blood is filled with carbon dioxide
and other noxious products on their way to the kidneys