Unfortunately, we have no idea what rational eating is, and that is why we pay dearly for the consequences of our ignorance. Nowadays, the man is agitated in a feverish activity to guarantee his subsistence and to achieve what for him is the supreme happiness, the fortune. The most elementary principles of food hygiene are trampled to the feet; instead of submitting the food to a careful chew, eat hastily to not waste time and devour meals in 10 to 15 minutes. To stimulate the nervous system, it uses the toxic and exciting ones, such as alcohol, tea, coffee, etc.
When, finally, after many years of intense struggle and sacrifice, he attains the goal of his desires, he frees himself from that tremendous nightmare that is called the preoccupation of tomorrow, his health is, as a rule, seriously compromised. It is then that he will knock on the door of the doctor and ask him to free him from that troublesome burden. Medicine, however, does not work miracles, and just as the architect can not avoid the collapse of a ruined building, the clinician too often finds himself unable to preserve the life of an organism whose organs have deep and irreparable lesions.
Food hygiene is undoubtedly the basis of health and longevity.