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After some weeks on an uncooked food diet, the intellectual type of person will find, as I found, that there is greater mental clarity and greater mental drive. In fact, there may even be a tendency to overwork intellectually in reading or writing. A century ago, John Linton, of England, reported the result of a long period on such a diet in these words: "I was able to write with an ease and perspicacity and satisfaction which I had never before known, or had any idea of."

-- Notebooks Category 5: The Body > Chapter 3 : Diet > # 77