...therefore, should feed mainly on the lower animals, with a small proportion of fruits and cereals. Second, in proportion as man grows sensitive through civilization...should diminish the quantity of cereals and fruits and increase the quantity of animal food." According to this theory and the doctrine of evolution the...

...rice or grains, Beard argued that in order to support their greater nervous development, civilized men "should diminish the quantity of cereals and fruits,...evolution, and therefore more easily assimilated" (Sexual Neurasthenia, 258; Beard's emphasis). Ultimately, this constituted more than just nutritional...

...historians have quoted American neurologist George Beard, an influential Victorian health advisor: "In proportion as man grows sensitive through civilization...evolution, and therefore more easily assimilated." In Beard's evolutionary hierarchy, those closest to apes — "savages" — could more easily follow...

...therefore should feed mainly on the lower animals, with a small proportion of fruits and cereals." "In proportion as man grows sensitive through civilization...through disease, he should diminish the quantity of fruits and cereals, which are far below him in the scale of evolution, and increase the quantity of...