CHAPTER XI.
VEGETABLES.
Though I am inclined to favor a vegetable diet I am not one of the rabid kind. I usually eat whatever my appetite calls for, and sometimes do not touch meat of any kind for months. I firmly believe that if one can secure a sufficient variety of fruits, grains, vegetables and nuts that there is not only no actual need for meat, and that one would be far better off without it. Meat unquestionably tends to fill the blood with elements that cannot be readily eliminated by the depurating organs. If meat was included in my diet when attacked by illness, as a first step towards a cure, it was always immediately avoided, and often this has been all that was necessary in order to bring about the desired results. But the most startling evidence in favor of vegetarianism is the fact proven in my own athletic experience, and in the experience of many others, that the vege-
