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The study of dietetics has taught the
more enlightened that in the tropics
sugar, instead of fat, should supply the
the calories our organism requires.
The Creator has shown us what to
eat by causing the earth to- bring forth
the things essential to the proper nutrition
of man in each latitude. -
The Esquimo needs fat, strong
combustible for an intensely cold climate;
therefore polar regions furnish him with
the greasy flesh of bears and oil giving
seals and fish.
Coming southwards,
wonderful cattle appear and superior
dairy products; the temperate zone
furnishes delicious poultry, fine fruits
and vegetables, and so on until we reach
the tropics, where meat is less good,
butter only middling and northern fruits,
such as apples and pears, non existant.
On the other hand Nature has
lavishly provided this land with the
finest fish in the world, right out of the
Gulf Stream, unequalled crabs and lobs–
ters, an almost infinite variety of vegeta–
bles-tropical and others--- and luscious
fruit, such as is only found in Paradise.
Pork ·is extensively used and we
must frankly acknowledge that its quality