[Footnote 12: "Glutton or Epicure" was originally composed of two
smaller booklets entitled "Nature's Food Filter; or, What and When to
Swallow" and "What Sense? or, Economic Nutrition;" bound together. In
this revision the order has been retained with some repetitions, but
with different applications.]
The Sense of Taste has a value in relation to nutrition that has not
fully been appreciated.
Taste has been considered the lowest, in usefulness, of all the senses.
On the contrary, if properly understood, taste is one of the most
important of all the faculties man possesses.
Taste has lacked appreciation, for the reason that it has been supposed
that it catered to sensuality, in the vulgar sense, and performed the
function of devilish temptation rather than that of natural invitation
and protection.
Upon an examination, that any one can make for himself, however, it is
revealed that taste is the faithful servant of appetite; the sentinel
of the stomach, of the intestines, of the tissues and of the brain,
whose guidance and warning, if heeded, will give heretofore unknown
enjoyment of eating, and at the same time insure perfect health and the
maximum of strength.
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