p. 191 | Vegetable Diet

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1879

Vegetable Diet.

DR. GRAHAM presents a vast array of facts to prove superiority of vegetable food over that of animal food. He shows that a vegetable diet is more favorable to the development and manifestation of the intellectual powers than meat diet or a mixed diet of meat and vegetables. It is true many will not agree with him in this view, yet the facts he presents are of such a character as to demand a careful investigation of this point. If intellectual power is so greatly promoted by the use of a vegetable diet, as he seems to prove it is, then it becomes a matter of vital interest to all our people, and especially to students, teachers, and professional persons.

Numerous examples are given where children reared upon a purely vegetable diet were found to surpass all others in aptitude and quickness to learn, and possessed superior clearness and sprightliness of intellect. Instances are also given where the addition of animal food to the diet of these same children, had the effect to render them more stupid and dull of comprehension.