Food Standard
The usefulness of any article of diet depends upon its adaptability for entering into
combinations within the system. This, in turn, depends solely upon its higher or
lower standing in respect to vibrations. This is the reason why the human organism
cannot subsist upon mineral food.
Heat.
We need in our vital economy a definite amount of heat, or positive magnetic force.
This is lacking when the system neither produces enough to meet its needs in
compensation for expended energy or is not properly supplied with food, fresh air
and sunshine.
Discretion.
For this reason it is well to remember that discretion must be used, as any
unauthorized, unwise or too rapid change to a strict vegetarian diet may result, in
certain cases, in bringing about an underfed condition or in weakening, and even
disease, so that the system may be obliged to call in the aid of digestive tonics in
order to obtain all the material it needs for the formation of its body-cells.
Enough, however, has been said on the subject I think, to clear the stage, as it were,
of the debris of antiquated "orthodox" performances.
We of the independent and rational branch of the science of healing, ignorantly
termed "unorthodox," have devised a means of preventing disease and curing it,
when encountered, in a natural way, with materials that regenerate and invigorate
the blood, and this method is slowly but surely fighting its way into general
recognition.
In time we may hope to be able to make the so-called "inevitable"
children's complaints a matter of the past, and to raise a generation in which the
sins of the forefathers shall be extinct, so that sane and healthy offspring will be the
result.
But pending such time—until the final victory of the biological-hygienic
system for the prevention of disease—we are now prepared and able to cope with
the still existing conditions, and to heal, if proper attention is paid to our teachings.
Diet for Children in General.
For the infant child as well as for its mother, it is naturally best that it should be
nursed by the mother. The infant should receive the breast every three hours
approximately, and no food should be given it during the night, in order to make
the feeding regular and avoid intestinal catarrh through overfeeding.
A regular diet is necessary for a nursing mother. Hot spices and foods producing
gas, must be avoided. Tight clothes that cause degeneration of the mammary
glands, are prohibited.
If the mother is unable to nurse the child, and a wet-nurse cannot be afforded, the
child must be fed artificially, and this requires painstaking care and attention.
The main factor is to secure good cow's milk, which is most like human milk. Milk
from cows that are kept in barns, should not be used, for these animals constantly
live in stables that lack fresh air, and under conditions very detrimental to the milk.
The milk should be warmed carefully, thereby approximating the temperature of
the mother's milk (86° to 98.6°) before it is given to the infant. The nursing bottle
and the rubber caps must be kept scrupulously clean. The milk should be shaken
thoroughly before being used, in order to make a perfect intermixture of milk and
cream.
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