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In a longitudinal study, it was found that the manner in which people interpret important situations in their lives is dependent on their attitudes, fears, and expectations. Not everyone is capable of accepting a lack of knowledge when confronted with ambiguous or complicated situations. The author demonstrates a relationship between the origin and prevention of disease and the personality index of the population. In the group studied, he found all kinds of oral prejudices explaining disease—for instance, that food has not been digested properly or that the patient did not eat enough or had bad eating habits are related not only to tuberculosis but also to mental diseases. Since these attitudes and beliefs in the power of the ingestion of food are usually created in the interpersonal relationship within the family during development, he compares these ideas to the way children are fed, i.e., sometimes too frequently, at other times amidst many protests, sometimes not enough or in a capricious manner, their food being thrown at them with great aggressivity. He concludes that the greater the anxiety in the way any particular stage is handled (oral, anal, phallic) the easier it is to explain which diseases are based precisely on anxiety-producing factors at the particular stage of development. Two curious prejudices associated with eating are that one should not get wet or that one should avoid drafts after the ingestion of food. The author also discusses the magical elements of the evil eye in primitive handling of oral prejudices.