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Chapter VIII: Nourishment.1799
Chapter VIII: Nourishment.
The human body is constantly undergoing change. Atoms of bone, tissue,
flesh, muscle, fat and fluids are constantly being wornout and removed
from the system, and new atoms are constantly being manufactured in the
wonderful laboratory of the body, and then sent to take the place of the
wornout and discarded material.
Let us consider the physical body of man and its mechanism, as a plant—
and, indeed, it is akin to the life of the plant in its nature. What does the
plant require to bring it up from seed to sprout, from sprout to plant, with
flower, seed and fruit? The answer is simple—fresh air, sunlight, water, and
nourishing soil—these things, and all of them, must it have in order to grow
to healthy maturity. And Man’s physical body requires just the same things—
all of them—in order to be healthy, strong and normal. Remember the
requisites—fresh air, sunlight, water and food. We will consider the matter
of air, sunlight and water in other chapters, and will consider the matter of
nourishing food first.
Just as the plant grows slowly, but steadily, so does this great work of
discarding wornout material and the substitution of new material go on
constantly, day and night. We are not conscious of this mighty work, as it