Quantity as Well as Quality in Diet
No reform in diet will amount to anything which does not have regard to the quantity as well as the quality of food taken at the meal. On this point an exchange remarks: “The evils resulting from excess in eating can scarcely be overestimated. Indeed, startling as the statement may seem, it is nevertheless well supported, both by experience and by reliable authority, that it is safer for a person to disregard the quality of his food than to indulge in excess in quantity. In other words, food of inferior quality and not the best calculated to nourish the system, taken in proper quantity, is less injurious than food prepared in the best possible manner, taken in too large a quantity. A person, then, who adopts the vegetarian system, thinking to make a reformation in his manner of living by so doing, and who then constantly overloads his stomach, even with the best of food, has only rendered his condition worse than before, and consequently is in greater need of making a reformation.”