THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION 117diseases, such as biliousness and dyspepsia, or if held
long in the mouth as candy, but if sparingly used
during good health and the amount gradually increased
as the stomach becomes accustomed to its use, it will
be found very nourishing. The health of Negroes
becomes greatly improved during the sugar-cane
harvest time, notwithstanding their increased labor.
This is attributed solely to their fondness for the sweet
cane-juice. The same may be said of horses, cows, and
other animals in those localities, which are all fond of
the refuse syrup fed to them. They grow fat in harvest
time, their coats becoming sleek and shining. Horses
fed on boiled carrots for a few weeks will get a coat
like silk, owing to the saccharine juices of that
vegetable. Sugar is a nutritious and beneficial article of
diet and contains no ash whatever.
Fruits are an ideal diet. They are in fact evolved by
the tree to induce animal and man to eat them, so that
the seed may be disseminated, as flowers entice bees
for a similar purpose.
Fresh fruit contains water of the purest and best
kind, capable of permeating the system in a marvelous
manner. Grapejuice is a particularly wonderful solvent.
It thins and stimulates the blood, opening the way into
capillaries already dried and choked up—if the process
has not gone too far. By a course of unfermented
grapejuice treatment, people with sunken eyes,
wrinkled skins and poor complexions become plump,
ruddy, and lively. The increased permeability enables
the Spirit to manifest more freely and with renewed
energy.