“You determine how you will feel throughout each day by the type of breakfast you eat. You can produce inefficiency in yourself by eating too little food or too much of the wrong kind of food. Your breakfast establishes how readily your body can produce energy that day or, more specifically, the amount of sugar in your blood. Your energy production which corresponds to the quality of sugar available, determines how you think, act, and feel. Energy is produced in your body by the burning (oxidizing) of sugar alone or sugar and fat together. Only when the blood plasma contains adequate amounts of sugar can each cell select the quantity it needs. The amount of sugar in the blood is an index of the quantity available to each cell.
Thousands of blood analyses have shown that a normal person who has not eaten for 12 hours has 80 to 120 milligrams of sugar in about 1/2 cup (100 cc.) of blood. This figure, known as the fasting blood sugar, depends on the kind and amount of food eaten at the previous meal. The average is 90 to 95 milligrams. At this point energy is rather well produced. As the supply of blood sugar is used, energy is produced less readily, and lassitude sets in. When the sugar falls to about 70 milligrams, hunger is experienced, and lassitude gradually becomes fatigue. If the blood sugar drops to about 65 milligrams, a craving for sweets is often noticed and/or “growling” in the intestines. A continued drop is the sugar supply causes fatigue to become exhaustion. Headaches, weakness, and wobbliness often occur; palpitations of the heart may be noticeable; the legs may suddenly give way; nausea and even vomiting are often experienced.
“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others’ happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.
Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men—machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate!
