Smyrna times., 1881-11-16
One Meal a Day.
HOW A SICK MAN BECAME WE'LL AND GAIN
ED FLESH.

IS. n. S., 2S years old, resolved to
adopt the One-meal system, and did so,
leaving off meats and all condiments, as
salt and pepper, and eating chiefly wheat
meal bread and fruit, the bread made from
unsifted meal and mixed with water only,
no salt or bread-raising devices--unleaYcn
ed bread. Within seven months his weight
increased from 145 to 10 pounds and his
strength of both body and mind had in
creased i'll proportion. His labor had been
severe he is a machinst and an inventor,
working ten hours every day and doing Il
good deal of practical and profitable
thinking at the same time. Il 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 suiii-
cheney of one meal of pure food for the
most trying labor, he worked in an iron
foundry for three months, and nOtWith-
standing the extreme and frequent chan
geS of temperature incident to the work
on cold mornings with the mercury below
zero, and i'll the afternoon at 120 above.
and all hands sweating like rain, he had
not cold for the winter, and was the
only employe thus exempt. He had
formerly been subject to frequent attacks
of the above disease. His daily ration
consists of six to nine ounces according
to labor of graham flour, beside fruit
sufficient to supply all the liquids nCccs-
sary-half dozen apples or their equiva-
lent i'll other fruit. He is rarely thirsty,
but sometimes, if too little fruit is taken
at meal time, he takes a small draught OF
water in the course of the day. This
meal is taken ut night, after entire recOv-
from flt " nt a = ~ nrl-
During the month of May, 1881, just pas
sed, he gained sixty hours, or six full days,
working extra hours at his bench, some
times working right through to midnight,
and taking his breakfast after a short
| rest, before retiring. No man III his en-
ploy has gained so much time. He has
occasionally made Il trial Of bolted-hour
bread, but has invariably experienced a
loss of weight and strength.
! My own experience goes far TO prove
| the efficiency of the above regimen for
| either the brain or muscle work. | am
now taking the one meal a day, and find
myself perfectly nOurished, weight and
! strength maintained, ON about fourteen
ounces of unleavened wheat-meal bread,
! to the mastication of which devote an
| hour or more. find that six cold gems,
weighing about fourteen ounces, without
butter or milk, chewed deliberately and
thoroughly dissolved by the juice 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 digestion. Starchy foods cannot
| be transformed into nure blood entire ex-
cept as far as the change is begun in 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 have everything their own
way without interfering or hindering di-
gestiOn, and at evening, after q sufficient
rest, there is perfect tranquility of body
and mind and leisure to digest | had
never been u good sleeper until / adopted
this system of diet. People who eat sew
eral meals day do well 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 wakeful-
ness or troubled dreams. When / ate
three meals or 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 cut my
full vegetarian meal and sleep like we'll
fed babe. l could give quite a number OF
examples like the foPgoing, of one-meal-
ers, did space permit, all tending to prove
the superiority of vegetable over animal
diet, and of the entire wheat over the
most scientifically impoverished article"
Journal Of Chemistry.