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Coffee and tea are not foods, but strong, powerful drugs. Sooner or later the steady drugging will tear down the strong man or woman, and the stomach, bowels, heart, kidneys, nerves, brain, or some other organ connected with the nervous system, will be attacked.

Dry Kiln Room.

Where we parallel in a mechanical way the operations of intestinal digestion. There are 24 iron kiln rooms of great length, with a capacity of 142 portable steel racks, having a carrying capacity of 7,716 trays, containing the Grape-Nuts slices. These racks remain in the hot kilns many hours, during which time the food is naturally pre-digested by heat and time. The diastase is thus produced, and the transformation of starch into sugar (or maltose) accomplished, without employing any elements other than those found in the wheat and barley, making a perfect food for those with weak digestion, and who cannot digest the carbohydrates as presented in soft, mushy foods.

Thousands of invalids remain so, not knowing the cause of their disease. It is safe to say that one person in every three, among coffee users, has some form of incipient or advanced disease.

Any analytical chemist can analyize coffee and tea, and show that they contain a poisonous drug—caffeine—which belongs to the same class as cocaine, morphine, nicotine and strychnine—alkaloids.

In highly organized people, these poisons have a direct effect upon the heart, liver, stomach and nerves, and set up various indications of approaching sickness. These facts have been known by physicians for

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