The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-27
eRooD PADS AND s THE FASTING CURE

In one way quite too much importance as attached to the matter of dieting' m aonther way not enough. once TOT aIi thers Is no system of diet that VII make % and keep you well. You may set that ~down absolutely. A person who has founu Sthat one meal a day agrees with nm blows his horn loud and long and quite Sprofitably for himself to show mat hu- man ailments can be kept at bay by eat ting only once day, especially 1T you eat ~no meat.
 T Well, I myself tried the one meal day Sdiet for two years. taking at that meal fruit and nuts, with the occasional addl- ton of milk, eggs or select vegetable $or two l followed the diet strictly for s9the time mentioned, and at the end Of 1t I was worse off than before. What did the attempt prove? Merely that for one s1ndividual the fruit and nut diet and one ameal day prescription were no good. Then there was the meat and hot water ~diet, warranted to cure all diseases of Athe digestive organs. l never tried that, abut dear friend did try 1t faithfully and Nin a whole souled manner. She, rest her ssouf, passed from earth few years ago from incurable dyspepsia. What again. does this prove? That meat and hot wa ter living did this lady no good. l never tried the uncooked food diet which some persons assert in an angelic manner is fhe natural food of the human race be- cause of the divine, undestroyed es- eences, etc., but one of my friends tried it faithfully and in a months time be- came the victim of dyspepsia in its'worst horrors.
 The last dieting fad here to be named fs the starvation cure. That Is chiefly doing without any food one day in seven and now and then interjecting a whole weeks fast or thereabout. You may find at any time persons who sing the praises of this divine no-food-at-all living, say ing the divine essences are in the>air and they will nourish us If we only breathe enough of them in. No doubt.
 Now. the truth is that in nearly all these crank food systems there is a grain much as they ought to; half the inhab- itants of the earth eat too often; nearly everybody eats four times as much meat as he ought to eat, and we all, without sxcepron. take into our stomachs vil- letnous. mixed up, conglomerate concoc- tons that an OK would sniff at and turn away from.
 In general, on the food question united experience shows that the race in its up ward evolution is growing lighter, finer, more etheral, even stronger than 1t was perhaps, but strong by sustained mind and nerve force. no longer merely by that of the brute. Civilized man needs less food than his ancestors did and needs that # be of finer, lighter, simpler quality Fruits, milk and eggs should enter largely into human diet so far as they agree with the individual; meat and whiskey may be left out to the like degree For the
 
 teal labor two meals a day are enough. Of these two the first and the main one of the day Is perhaps best partaken of be- tween Il o'clock and 1. Hundreds of thousands of Americans now eat only twice day and find it agrees with them admirably. On the other hand, those with small stomachs and feeble digestion want food oftener. In that, as in everything else. the individual must decide for him. self.
 Fasting will certainly relieve much ot the prevalent indigestion and ologged ur condition of the human body If you are ''or your feed" and nothing tastes good do not try to coax your appetite Just stop eating, and go on with your work, as usual, and don't tell anybody about 1t Fast. say twenty-four hours You will not starve, and 1t will do you good Fast Ing twenty-four hours or even skipping one meal will give your stomach time to Ind itself again under the load of rubbish you have piled into it.
 Finally find out what you like and what agrees with you yourself-don't take an. others word for ft-and stick to that Eat as little even of that as will satisfy your hunger, breath habitually all the ali you can hold. keep your soul and body clean and be happy.
 Mary Gould Lytle