The sun., 1902-12-07
THEY EATNO BREAKFAST NOW.
PEOPLE or MANCHESTER HAVE
4 NEW IDEA.
Physical Health culture society Argues
That Food Ii Not Needed AFTER
Sleep Sc, eral Members Testify to
the success Of the Experiment.
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Special Cable Despaieh TO THE srN.
LoNDoN, Dec. 0.-Aidncnester has been
the cradle Of many notable movements
in England. The term "Manc hester Sch, ol'
has In recent years carried "a sisnificancc
outside the domain of politics. where II
Ill stands for irce-tradeism, anti-expsn-
Jnism and indn iciuaism.
The Manchester people are now pioneers
in movement which has survived the
first ordeals Of derision and incredulity
The cry in Manchester to-day IL No break
FAST" as the cry a iseneration ago wa
Cheap bread
The new crusade IL being wag'd un,!er
the banner OF the Manchester 4s.y.lGal
Health Culture Society, of VIII, Ii many
p eminent citizens are members. The
lord Mayor presided at a large meeting
of the society this week. where the speakers
recounted their personal experiences III
going without their breakfast lhe physio
logical basis of the plan is thus expVundcd
by a medical b -liever in it,
Properly uigestei food only restores
waste muscular tissue, supplies heat AM
force AMI fee Ia the brain AMI nervous
sys,em The brain and nervous system
control AM give power and action to all
the muscls If the TO ~. incluiing tn.
stomach. lhis power OF the brain is de-
rive1 from rest and sleep alone. and not from
food. The digestion of food IL a tax upoi
the brain energy AMI 1t is necessary that
the tax shorllG occasionally stop During
the sleep comparatively little waste O.
ours. Food IL not so much needed after
long sleep IA after prolonged work, All
curative power is brain energy"
After this statement the laymen Of Man
chester defended the doctors statement
II their faith One robust young man SAID
that he beg m last June on the no. breakfasi
plan. He had severe headaches on the
second and third days and intermittent
heaIache during the first week. Tho
second week he became Convinced that
it was an entirely good thing, uni he was
hat opinion now. He took a cup of cocoa
at morning and az night. They must
not. he said. leittle the morning paLg
Of hunger. II is the very real thing at first ,
but IL .isppears. He took his first meal
ut IL is p. NJ. and the second at Gl5 T. VI
| Ha felt that he had derived great benefit
| from the plan.
Another Young athlete who rises az in
tho morning SAID he took his first meal al
noon and tho second in the evening. He
said the b"-t thing was to avoid the char
OF companions by not talking about the
matter. He advised exrcrinentcrs not
to tell their friends when they began, a.
! the latter would ba sure to say that they
were looking pale and i'll. He had not been
sick rince ho began the experiment. but
| when he told hi- friends about il month,
afterward thcv at once began to discover
! unfivorlb,e signS in hi- appearance.
hostile critic declared that the Fundamental
physiological error of the brcakfas ties,
idea was in saying that the brain did not
supply energy to the muscles The latter
derived their power from digosted food anC
blood tissues What the brain did was e
liberate muscular energy NJ required
Wheth her or not tn. new school has an
sound phys biological basis Il is certainly
making converts in Manchester Thc
speakers did not touch on the questions o
local conditions, though il is probable tina
a mans feeling in the morning in the humid
heavy air of Manchester j. not the sam,
a. In the e1hiarating atmosphere Of New
York. Even the change from London I,
New York has been known TO have the r."
suit of giving a man "A hearty appetite fol
his breakfast every morning.