when one is clogged up. Also a glycerin suppository will relieve the lower bowel when clogged. People often take drugs for constipation of the upper intestines when it is the lower intestines that are clogged up. Rhu­barb, prunes, berries, plums, pears, apples and figs are good food to keep the bowels moving properly.
 (15). Candy, ice cream, white sugar, all pies and pastries made of white flour rob the teeth and bones of their calcium which causes them to lose their strengthening elements and rot away. These and other adulterated food stuffs should be shunned.
 (16). Man’s sense of taste has been over cultivated and he draws into his system substances that are a detriment to his health and growth and which damage and deteriorate his vital organs in a way that causes their impairment and lack of functioning qualities which causes loss of Equaeverpoise and a consequent decrease in the power of Suction and composition and an increase in the power of Pressure and decomposition.
 Man has been gradually cutting off his supply of air, sunlight, water and nutritious foods and substituting for them artificial and injurious light, poisoned air, and highly flavored and deadening beverages and foodstuffs.
 Artificial and insufficient light ruins his sense of sight and lack of sunlight and pure air causes decomposition of the lungs. Flavored beverages incapacitate the liver and kidneys and adulterated foods cause impure blood. Soft or concentrated foods, that require no chewing, weaken the teeth, glands and digestive organs. Inhalation of gaseous fumes poisons the lungs and weakens the action of the heart.
 Weakening and putting out of order any or all of these organs creates a condition of the body that lacks the initiative to draw into itself the great life-giving qualities that repair, build up, expand and counteract the effects of external pressure and influences which contract and cause decomposition and death.
 To continue to grow and obtain the inclination and power to live indefinitely, man must begin with nourishment and only draw into his body such substances as are needed for growth, repair work and power for movement. He must eat and drink and inhale to live 200 or more years, instead of living to eat and drink and inhale for a period of 100 or less years.
 If one eats and drinks to live, instead of living to eat and drink he will not only select natural substances for their quality but will find that the right quality of food or drink will not tempt or permit him to overload his body with too great a quantity.
 It is the artificially flavored foods, or those foods prepared principally to excite the taste that cause most people to eat a larger supply than the system requires or that can be digested and assimilated. Such foods as a rule not only do not afford nourishment for the body but put a strain upon the different organs trying to get rid of the surplus matter. In fact it is not gotten rid of altogether but