Your food and drink, therefore, should depend upon your
own peculiar needs. The science of the matter investigates the
kinds of nourishment which you in particular require and advises
all items furnishing the material elements you demand. But some
individual variations, in respect to questions of taste,
usefulness and harmfulness, digestibility and adaptation, are
undoubtedly results of restrained liberty and wrong thought-life
in the past, either of your ancestors or of yourself. That degree
of liberty, therefore, which ought to be yours, has perhaps, come
to be more or less limited. It is possible for you to secure a
desirable enlargement of freedom with regard to food and drink. Of
course you have no liberty in the way of natural poisons and
beverages which dethrone common sense. Aside from the limits set
by Nature, you may acquire the largest measure of personal freedom
in the matter if you will determine therefor in the exercise of
sound reason. I have had my experience with things not liked and
things harmful--apricots, chickens, salmon---and today I eat all
that's eatable by civilized man, and I drink whatever I choose to
drink--alcohol tabooed because I want and need all the brains I
possess.
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