Text: 28. (Q) Is my vegetarian diet good for me, and should I stick to it? (A) Rather as has been indicated, this from the material angle is not an absolute necessity - but in all good conscience keep that as thy SOUL (we didn't say HEART) - thy SOUL - desires. Vegetables are nature's way, the natural, the correct, the cleansing. Keep it, then; but these are as to the needs of the self depending upon the manner of expending energies. So long as there is the expending of self in mental, yes. When it becomes active in great physical exertion - as it will, in they experience - then there will be the needs for some changes to be made. Cayce [1554-6] 8. Then, take rather a normal, well balanced diet; not too much in the beginning, but balance the diet. Not quantities of flesh, no; but fish and fowl, yes - these in moderate quantities. 9. Those disturbances in the caecum and appendix area are the effects of too little bulk in the diet, not sufficient protein, not sufficient of those activities that bring a renewing of energy. 10. Not that decaying flesh to the body is not abhorrent, but so balance the diet that the gastric flows of the pylorus and duodenum are such that the proteins are cared for in such manners that the body will gain in energy. Cayce [3481-1] 10. (Q) Would it be wise for me to include in my diet any other body building foods such as red meats or fattening foods? (A) This depends upon what is termed red meats. Juices of meats, as has been given - and there is more strength and body-building in one spoonful of beef juice than a pound of the raw meat or rare meat or cooked! and the system will build more from same if taken in that way and manner. Especially where those conditions in the system have been as they have been. Know that if there is to be taken, to be sure, beef or pork or ham, and it is REQUIRED that there be taken the acids to DIGEST same - and they are not taken, this will be hard upon the system! But if the food values are taken in combinations and in manners that the system will assimilate same, this is much preferable. 11. (Q) Please explain the reaction of foods on my system. (A) It's just been given! Those that require the bodily foods - there are foods that require (as meats) acids for their proper fermentation; while most of the foods as of the vegetable forces, especially of the leafy nature, require more of the slow combination of the lacteals' reaction or the greater quantity of the combination of acid and alkaline. Then if foods are taken in quantities that require an alkaline for their digestion, an acid is in the system - this produces improper fermentation. If foods are taken where acid is necessary and it is not being produced by the system, or not taken into the system in synthetic state, then these produce the disturbances, see? See how the combinations of these, then, make for the necessity of watching, experimenting as it were with that which is good today and may be bad tomorrow. For what would be poison for someone, to another may be a cure. This is true in every physical organism. And unless these balances are being cared for properly, they produce disturbances. Cayce [1259-2]

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