[Jewish dietary laws and health education].

Abstract

We divide the statute of foods in the real food-statute and in the rules about the cooking. Particularly the food-statute, we find in the bible (Leviticus chapter 11 and Deuteronomium chapter 14), demonstrated education of health already, in the antiquity. Essentially the jewish food-laws instruct us in the severe training of temperance and discipline. But that system of education teach men also how they reduce the fat of the animals, which are permitted to eat. Likewise the jewish rules refer to the importance of temperance of alcoholic drinks. The empiric knowledge of reduction and selection of animal food effect a theoretic basis leading to the prophylactic and to the preventive of civilization disease and of cancer development.