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former mistake may very often ]ead to the latter ;
the two causes are therefore interlinked. It is very
essential to examine all the causes thoroughly
because without knowing and eradicating them
completely, cure is unthinkable. We shall now deal
with the first set of causes/ namely, wrong choice of
foods. It should be noted that the order in which
the causes are mentioned, has little significance.
The importance of each cause depends upon
individual circumstances. ' It never rains but pours/
goes the proverb. Thus we are never guilty of one
mistake ; we commit a host of them.
CAUSE (1) Eating of indigestible or difficultly
digestible foods :•—
Foods which are rich in protein and fat or oil
are more difficult to digest than starch foods.
Protein foods stay in the stomach twice as long as
starch foods. Fats stay even longer. All pulses,
nuts and animal foods are high-protein foods.
Persistent use of such foods is boand to lead to
indigestion.
Medical people will tell you that every adult
should eat at least 100 grams of protein daily.
I advise you not to pay any heed to them* For want
•of space I am not giving here my reasons for saying
-so. 1 shall deal with this question at length in
^another book of mine 'Food for Health/ I shall only
state here that I have very sound reasons for saying
that we do not need so much of protein as the
allopath says we do. In the matter of food, if there
Is any one who is competent to give you advice/
it is the Naturopath. Long before the allopath
could convince himself that food may have some
relationship with health and disease, the Naturopath
; had not only recognised this basic law/ that wrong
food is at the root of all disease, (Note: I am using