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Yea, but not after digesting our food. If strength comes from the assimilation of food it can only be after the food is completely digested; a partially digested mass in the stomach certainly cannot yield any work power. Now it takes some hours, at least, to complete the process of assimilation; but the accession of strength is always felt immediately after swallowing the food. You are tired and weak; you swallow a cup of coffee and a piece of toast, and you rise and go to work refreshed; it has "strengthened" you, you say. But it has not; if you will pause to think you will see that your fresh strength cannot have come from the food, which has not had time to be changed at all; it is coffee and toast in your stomach, and will be, for some time; how can it strengthen you before it is digested? And three or four hours. hence, when it is digested, you will be as weak as ever. If we get our energy from food, is it before or after we digest it?
You are stronger right after your noon-day meal, but at five p.m. when the food is digested, you are all tired out; and with all your eating you suffer a steady decline in power from the time you emerge from unconsciousness in the morning until you. return to it at night. The accession of strength you felt after taking the coffee and toast did not come from the food; it was the rally nature made, summoning her power to the task of disposing of the
