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The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition

Chapter 63: PROFESSOR JAFFA AND THE FRUITARIANS
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The work advocates a method of economic nutrition centered on careful mastication and attending to natural appetite cues so as to avoid overconsumption while preserving enjoyment. It combines practical instructions and a concise primer on the psychology, mechanics, and chemistry of digestion with summaries of physiological experiments and expert observations that examine salivary and gastric secretions, intestinal movements, and appetite regulation. The author assembles evidence, case observations, and proposals for systematic research, and closes with accessible guidance intended to increase health, energy, and endurance by aligning eating habits with bodily signals and digestive efficiency.

PROFESSOR JAFFA AND THE FRUITARIANS

Professor Jaffa, too, of the University of California, has been doing most valuable service in testing the usefulness of fruits and nuts as human foods. He generously furnished the author with elaborate tables of his results, covering several years of observation, showing low nitrogen possibilities similar to those demonstrated by the writer and his colleagues at Cambridge and Yale. These have since been published, and relating to special kinds of foods, as they do, suggest a wide range of choice among the fruits of earth; but the collected evidence of this book shows that human nutrition is best served when the appetite, being kept at normal, is allowed to make selection from the whole range of nutritious products furnished by good Mother Nature.