It was all made very clear in this one word:  peddled.

The health benefit of speed reading while taking vitamin pills comes
from peddling on an exercycle while doing so.

But in order for those vitamin pills to work, they need to interact
with food.  Good food, like a tasty barbequed chicken or trout... yes,
a nice barbequed trout, with some raw califlower on the side with ranch
dressing, and twice-baked potatoes.  Because trout and califlower are
delicate brain foods, I'd go for the more temper-mental red-skinned
Russetts for this meal.

I'll bet if they ate like this on Atlantis, it would never have sunk in
the first place.  Which raises a good point - perhaps Atlantis HAD to
sink in order to create the cuisine power vacuum necessary for the
evolution of really good barbeque.  This would prove by inference that
Atlanteans preferred damp-roasting (a contradiction of terms) their
meat.

So, there it is:  Atlanteans propagating the belief that you don't need
to exercise or take your vitamins, while at the same pushing the idea
that the words damp and roast go in the same sentence as meat, and, to
top it off, standing in the way of evolution - it's no wonder they were
struck down.

It's amazing how the synchronic mysteries unfold.

Earl