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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Dietetics and Its Affect on Physical and Mental Health

Life is a perpetual function; it has for its seat the organs which, working and modifying themselves incessantly, have a constant tendency to revert to their primitive type Thence a continual current of exchanges, the upkeep of which is borne by alimentation. According to its nature, it preserves in a normal state the composition and the texture of the organs, or rather transforms slowly then: substance and, with it the functional acts.