Excerpt from Economy in the Buying and Preparation of Meats Very young and very old people require little meat, and it is required only in moderation by anyone. Amounts vary with indi vidual conditions, occupations and habits. People who are under nourished lack resistance to ward off disease - those in prime health have the greater resistance. Meat has a higher food v'alue than most vegetables. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.