The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-05
LIGHT EATING BENEFICIAL
Improved Health Resulting from Pro
longed Fast Followed by
LIqF1t Diet.

That many persons have gained In
health by eliminating or practically elm
mating, the morning breakfast, seems an
established fact writes Anna Woodward
in Good Housekeeping. Those who are
more radical in their trials have begun
by fasting entirely, for period of from
seven to thirty days. An experience
which has attracted much attention is
that of the editor of one Of the health
magazines of New York. This man went
thru a thirty days fast about two years
ago, and from that time to the present
has usually had two very light meals
each day. Never more than two, and
| sometimes but one. He weighed, when
beginning his fast ITO pounds, and has
since told the writer that he had at that
| time much sickness; was, in fact, an In
| valid. At the present time he weighs
100 pounds, is robust in every way and
declares emphatically that he is proof
against any form of disease whatsoever.
He says that before the thirty days of
fasting was over, his skin took a clear
| err hue than it had worn for years, his
! eyes grew brighter, his hair was In bet
ter condition, and his teeth even, became
noticeably whittier. On the tWenty-fourth
day of his fast he took a prolonged noun
tain walk with several companions,
neither showing nor feeling more fatigue
than they.
| A girl whose home is in Morgantown,
W. Va. tells me that altho up to last sum-
mer she had always been an omnlverous
eater. she at that time became converted
to the modern theory, and began In
practical way by taking in August two
weeks complete fast, during which time
she swallowed nothing but a little fruit
Juice She then began to adopt an ex-
tremely light diet, to her advantage from
the point Of economy since oy preparlng
her own meals instead Of boarding she
effected a saving of from six to seven
dollars a month. But the consideration
of primary importance was not the pc
cuniary but the physical gain. She al
,, once began to enjoy health such as she
had not known for years For seVera
: years previously her average weight hao
been about one hundred and twenty-foul
pounds During the two weeks fast she
: lost fifteen pounds The first week there.
after she regained ten pounds and afte1
that she gained at the rate OF three pound:
: a week, until she reached one hundred ane
! thirty nine pounds-more than she eve
weighed in her life before. This girl Ii
e engaged in taking university course ant
I | there is living with her friend VINO IS
: teacher in the public schools, this frient
living also on the same plan. They ca
no breakfast taking in the early mornini
a glass of hot lemonade. Lunch consist
r. Of two slices of brown bread and butte
1t and a little fruit. The evening meal, tn
more substantial, is very simply cooked
t. Soup and one other dish form the usus
: dinner The second dish consists some
~ times of a baked potato or baked apple.
N sometimes of dried fruits stewed, some
times of cereal and milk. They tax
OF never more than these two simple dishe:
s. in addition to brown bread and milk, ce
- lery and occasionally onions The mai
e. point is that they enjoy their eating g
they never did before, they have improve
* in general health, and incidentally ther
ir has been the saving of time and money.