one cup of milk and two bananas taken twice in the
day. During the past thirty years, his daily intake
of food has rarely exceeded 1,000 Calories. For
months together he has lived on 600 Calories and
less even. Once he went on a fast for 35 days at
a stretch; there have been many other fasts of
shorter duration- He refused to be bullied into
obeying the dictates of the allopath, and thanks to
that, he is still LIVING/ free from the troubles which
clung to him tenaciously till then. But his getting
'freed from disease was a small thing compared to
the enormous work he has turned out after that.
This is just a typical example. Every dyspeptic
who was treated naturally has followed a similar
course, and has had the reward which the obser-
vance of such a course entitles him to-
Whether the fundamental basis of the Calorie
theory is correct is a different question. But the
food requirement calculated on the basis of the
Calorie theory is unreliable, to put it mildly.
Our Calorie requirement for mere sustenance,
is very low, so low that we need never worry
about a Calorie deficiency.
Nature-Cure never cares for Calories, but it
advices its patients to be careful not to exceed their
capacity to digest, never to eat more than what
their vital power can cope with. If they are desirous
of getting back their lost health they must eat even
less than what they can assimilate, so that enough
vitality will be left over to do the work of repairing
the body and restoring health.