Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-25
one MEAL A DAY.

S. n. s., twenty-eight years old, re-
solved to adopt the one-mesl system, and
did so, leaving off meat and all condiments,
as salt and pepper, and eating chiefly
yheat-meai bread and fruit, the bread
made from unsifted meal and mixed with
water only, no salt or bread-raising de-
vicss-unleavened bread. Within seven
months his weight increased from l45
pounds TO 40 pounds, and bis strength OF
both body and mind mad increased in
proportion. His labor had been severe ;
he ia a machinist and inventor, working
ten hours every day, and doing good
deal of practical and profitable thinking at
the same time. II is now full year
since he came to one meal, and the weight
gained has been maintained, and his health
is perfect During the last winter, for
the purpose of testing the sufficiency of
one meal of pure food for the most trying
labor, he worked in an iron foundry for
three months, and notwithstanding the
extreme and frequent changes OF tenn
perature incidental to the work, on
cold mornings with the mercury
below zero, and in the afternoon
at 40 degrees above, and all hands sweat
ing like rain, he bad not 'cold for the
winter, aud was the only employee thus
exempt. he had formerly been subject to
frequent attacks of the above disease.
His daily ration consists of ak ounces to
nine ounces according to labor of graham
-four, besides fruit sufficient to supply all
the liquids necessary-half dozen apples
or their equivalent in other fruit. He is
rarely thirsty, but sometimes, il too little
fruit is taken at meal. time, he takes small
draught of water in the course of the day
Thia meal is taken at night, after entire
recovery from fatigue, usually at about 7
o'clock. During the month of May, 1881,
Just passed, he gained sixty hours, or six
full DAYS, working extra hours at his
bench, sometimes working right through
to midnight, and taking his breakfast "
after short rest before retiring. oman
in his employ had gained so much time.
He has occasionally made trial or bolted-
-four bread, but has invariably experienced
loss OF weight and strength.
Ny own experience goes far to prove the
efficiency OF the above regimen for either
the brain or muscle work. / am now TAX
ing one meal day, aud find myself per-
fectly ncurished, weight and strength
maintained, on about fourteen ounces of
unleavened wheat meal bread, to the mas.
tication OF which devote an hour or more.
I find that SIX c1ld gems, weighing about
fourteen ounces, with butter or milk,
chewed deliberately, and thoroughly dis
solved by the Juices of the mouth, will
sustain me much better than when eaten
warm with butter or milk, or both together
added, and eaten as fast as one naturally
eats hot rolls and butter or bread and milk.
Considering the manner In which people in
general bolt their food, it is not strange
that a large proportion of it fails of diges-
tien. Starehy foods cannot be transformed
into pure blood entire, except as far as the
change is begun 10 the mouth.
Until few months ago took my food
In the morning, but find the evening a
better time. During the day the brain
and muscles can have everything their own
way, without interfering or hindering
digestion, and at evening, after sufficient
rest, there Is perfect tranquility of body
and mind and "leisure to digest" had
never been "good sleeper until adopt
ed this system of diet People who eat
several meals day do we'll to take the last
one early, and the lighter they make it
the better, but dyspeptics may rest assured
that, of itself considered, the evening meal
is not the cause of their wakefulness or
troubled dreams. When l ate three meals
of mixed diet, l could not make the last
one simple enough to give me complete
rest at night, but ROW, when rested from
my days labor, l can eat my full vegeta-
tartan neal and sleep like well-fed babe.
| could give quite number of examples
like the foregoing, of one-mealers, did space
permit, al tending to prove the superiority
of vegetable over animal diet, and OF the
entire wheat over the most scientifically
impoverished article. journal of Chem