“The Eating and Drinking Reformation is at the foundation of all the good that would be produced in society.”

—  Joseph Brotherton

Quoted in Strength and Diet https://books.google.it/books?id=uexsAAAAMAAJ by Francis Albert Rollo Russell (London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1905), p. 2.

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