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Mikans are widely available now, so most people will eat them, but there is an aspect to this state of the market that must be considered: medical science holds that the peel of the mikan contains more nutrition than the meat of the mikan. Eating the peel is recommended because it contains vitamins A, B, and C, but this recommendation is very mistaken. This recommendation is based on the fallacious theory of a mindset completely trapped by an academic theory that ignores nature. What does it say that the peel tastes terrible? The truth is that it says that the peel is not something to be eaten and that the meat should be eaten instead. Such an easy distinction is indeed most satisfactory news, but it is indeed troubling that medical science makes reverse “progress” because it has become unable to understand a phenomenon so obvious.
Medical science’s recommendation to eat fish bones because they contain calcium is based on the same fallacy. Asking people to purposely eat something unpalatable that cannot be chewed by human teeth is to treat human beings as cats. Contemporary people are indeed to be pitied.

“Awaremu beki Gendaijin” was first published on the second page of Hikari, Issue 44 on January 7, 1950. Although no translations are known to exist, “Awaremu beki Gendaijin” was reprinted in the anthology Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū (Meishu-sama’s Collected Essays on Medical Science) that did enjoy a limited circulation. Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū contains no publication data, but internal evidence suggests that its editing stopped several months preceding Meishu-sama’s Ascension. Furthermore, since the book lacks publication data, whether the volume had Meishu-sama’s imprimatur or not is unknown, so details concerning this volume are probably impossible to research. Inclusion in Igaku Kankei Goronbun Shū shows that “Awaremu beki Gendaijin” was determined to be in the category as pertaining to medical science.