The examiner., 1881-12-03
One M sal a Day.

naO0 to SHOW GAaG OAo uOa1 a uAy IS enough for man:
 ''S. N. s., twenty-eight years old, resolved to adopt the one-meal system, and did so, leaving off meat 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-unleaven ed bread. Within seven months his weight increased from one hundred and
 orty-fve pounds to one hundred and seventy pounds, and his strength of both body and mind had increased in pro- portion. His labor had been severe; he is 8 machinist and an inventor. working ten hours every day, and do- ing Q good deal of practical and profit able thinking at the same timo. It is now ull 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 sutficiency of one meal of pure food for the most trying labor, he worked in an iron foundry for three months, and notwithstanding the ex- treme and frequent changes of temper ature incident to the work, on cold mornings, with the mercury below zero, and in the afternoon at 12O degrees 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 ounces to nine ounces (according to labor)-in Graham flour, beside fruit sufficient of supply all the liquids necessary half dozen apples or their equivalent to other fruit. He is rarely thirsty, but sometimes, if too little fruit is taken at meal time, he takes small draft of water in the course of the day. This meal is taken at night, after entire re- covery from fatigue, usually at about seven o'clock. During the month of May, 1881, just passed. he gained sixty hours, or six full days, working extra hours st his bench, sometimes working right through to midnight, and taking his breakfast after short rest, before retiring. No man in his employ haa gained so much time. He has occa- sionally made trial of bolted-four bread, but has invariably experienced loss of weight and strength.
 'My own experience goes far to prove the efficiency of the above regimen for either the brain or muscle worker. I am now taking but one meal day, and find myself perfectly nourished, weight and strength maintained, on about fourteen ounces of unleavened wheat meal bread, to the mastication of which I devote an hour or more. I find that six cold gems, weighing about fourteen ounces, without either butter or milk, chewed deliberately and thoroughly dissolved by the juices of the mouth, will sustain me much better than when eaten warm with butter or milk, or both
 
 naturally eats hot rolls and butter or bread and milk. Considering the man. her in which people in general bolt their food, it is not strange that large proportion of it fails of digestion. Starchy food cannot be transformed in to pure blood entire, except as far as the change is begun in the mouth.
 "Until few months ago took my food in the morning, but I find the eveninga better time. During the day the brain and muscles can have every thing their own way, without interfer- ng or hindering digestion, and at eyen-e ing, after sufficient rest, there is per feet tranquility of body and mind and leisure to digest I had never been good sleeper until I adopted this sys- tenn of diet. People who eat several meals day do we'll to take the least on 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 I ate three meals of mixed diet, could not make the last one simple enough to give mo complete rest at night, but now, when rested from my days labor, I can eat my full vegetarian meal aLd sleep like well-fed babe. I could give quite 8 number of examples like the foregoing, of one-mealers, did space permit, all tending to prove the superi- ority of vegetable over animal diet, and of the entire wheat over the most sci entifcally impoverished article"
 An Elkton, Md, paper mentions the case of Mir. T. Deenen. of that place, who suf- fered severely with rheumatic pains until he tried bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, which completely cured him.-Indianapoli (Ind.) Journal.
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