The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1881-11-09
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chethtstEy an account Of experiments made
70 show that one meal day is enough for 4
man
.. ms twenty.eight years Old, resolved
20 adopt the one meal system, and did 40.
leaving of meat and All conditions, as salt and
pepper, eating chiefly wheat-msal bread add
fruit, the bread made from unsifted meal and;
mixed with water only, no salt or bread-risinV
devices-unleavened bread. Within seven
mouths his weight increased from one bun-s
dred and fcrty-hve pounds to one hundred
and seventy pounds aud his strength of both
body and mind had increased in proportiou.5
His labor had been severe he is machipist
and an inventor, working ten hours every
day, aid doing good deal of practical and
profitable thinking in the socle time. Il il
now full year since he came to Que meal
aud the weight gained has been maintained
and his health is perfect. During the last
| Winter, for the purposeof testing the suffi-
cheney 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 temperature
incident to the work, ON cold mornings with
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at 100 degrees above, aud all hands sweat
ing like rain, he had not cold for the Winter, >
and was the only employee thus exempt. He
had formerly been subject to frequent attacks
of the above disease. His daily ration CON-
sist of six to nine ounces (aeoording to labor)
OF Graham flour beside fruit sufficient to sup
ply all the liquids necessafy--half Dozen
apples or their equivalent in othor fruit He
is rarely thirsty, but sometimes, If too littlos
fruit is taken at meal time, he takes a small
draught of water in the course Of the day. :
! This meal is taken at night after entire re-
covery from fatigue, usually at about z o'clock.
During the month of May, 1884, just passed,
he gained sixty hours, or six full days. work
Ing extra hours at his bench, sometimes work :
ing right through to midnight, aud taking
his "break fast" after short rest, before re-
firing. No man in his employ has gained SO
much time. he has occasionally made trial
of bolted flour bread, but has inevariably ex-
perienced loss of weight aud strength.
My own experience goes far to prove the
efficiency OF the above regimen for either the
brain or muscle worker. | am now takiug
but one meal day and find myself perfectly
n0uiished, weight aud strength maintained.
on about fourteen ounces of uuleayed wheat
meal bread, to the masticat.on of which dc.
vote an hour Or more. | find that ak cold
gems, weighing about fourteen ounces, WITH
out either butter or milk, chewed deliberately
and thoroughly dissolved by the juices of tho
mouth, will sustain me much better than
when eaten warm with butteror milk, or both
together added, and eaten as fast as one ma
tulaliy eats hot rolls and butter or bread and
milk. Considering the manner 10 which peo-
| pie in general bolt their food, it ia not strange
that large portion of it fails Of digestion,
Starchy foods cannot be transformed into pure !
blood entire, except as far as change is begun
in the mouth.
Until few months ago took my food in
tho morning, but find tho evening is better
time. During the day the brain and muscles
can have everything their own way, without
Interfering Or hindering digestion and at eve
ming, after a sufficient rest, there is a perfect
tranquility of body aud mind and g leisure to
digest" l had never been 'good sleeper I
until adopted this system of diet. People
who eat several meals day do well to take
the last one early, and the lighter they make it
the better, but dyspepticsmay rest assured that
of itself considered, the evening meal is not
the cause Of their weak fulness or troubled
dreams. When ate three meals of mixed
diet, could not make the last one simple
enough to give me complete rest at night, but
now, when rested from my days labor, can
cat my full vegetarian meal aud sleep like
weIl-fed babe. could give quite number of
examples like the foregoing ofone- mealers, did
space permit, All tending to prove the superi-
GRITTY of vegetable over animal diet. and of the
entire wheat over the most scientifically inn
poverehed article.