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The Blood (It is customary in America)

It is customary in America for people to have electric toasters on their table and to make lots of toast. Even sick persons in the hospitals are frequently served hot toast without regard to their ailments. Most people never stop to think that toast takes in the direct fire heat, and that the butter, which is fat-giving, adds more heat to the body. A little toast occasionally does no harm, but if a person eats hot buttered toast every day, some of the follownig ailments will appear sooner or later: headache, tiredness of the eyes, sinus inflammation, stomach ulcers, cold sores, canker sores, etc. If one wishes to avoid overheating the system, it is best to eat steamed or boiled food.

Most Americans, if once invited to a Chinese banquet, are very anxious to go to another, and then to keep on going. The reason is that about 90% of the food served at a Chinese banquet is either boiled or steamed, and is therefore both wholesome and digestible. Even though Americans do not know much about the five principal elements as represented by the five tastes, they know by intuition that Chinese food is wholesome. On the other hand, one American banquet is all a Chinese cares to go to for a long, long time.