Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-18
NEW THEORY ON EATING
We All Eat Too Much, Says
 Horace Fletcher.
BE REALLY HUNGRY, HE ADvSEs

Dollar a Day Guest at Waldorf As-
 torAa In New York Says Wait For
 Real Appetite and Masttcate Thor
 oughIy-In His Work, '"The A B 2
 of Our Own NutrItion.'' He Asks if
 Man Is Competent to Be Chauffeur
 of His Own Body.
 Horace Fletcher of New Haven, Conn, the man. who bearded at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, in New York, for $1 day, has declared in a new book, '9The A B 2 of Our Own Nutri- tion," that Americans eat too much and eat unwisely, says the Chicago Trib- une. The result, he says, is a loss of energy and an invitation to disease. The majority of those who violate the laws of health by overeating do so, he asserts, through ignorance and not be- cause they are gluttons.
 The author has found q way how not to eat too much, according to his own statement, and at the same time eat all the appetite desires and in a way combining a maximum of good taste and a minimum of cost and waste. The monetary saving by economic nutrt- ton, he adds, Is of little matter as com pared with the saving of the waste of energy and the menace of disease.
 Tn his introduction Mir. Fletcher says:
 Mature never intended that we should weaken, depress and distress ourselves in the way that is common to present day living, as is made evident by the prevalence of discomfort and disease relative to our daily food. Natures plan of evolution does not work that way in general, does not retrograde in the progress of the Improvement of plants and dumb animals and certainly does not intend that man, the first as- Sistant of nature in the cultivation of things and in the domestication of the powerful natural forces, should suffer and become degenerate contrary to the general law.'' ".
 Under the caption, 'sSome Pertinent Questions" MT. Fletcher asks:
 Considering my body as an engine, would I accept myself as a competent engineer on my own examination and confession?
 Were an iron and steel automobile instead of flesh and blood automobile, which really am, could get license for myself as a chauffeur to run my self with safety, based upon my knowl- edge of my own mechanism and the theory and development of my power7
 Were an owner of valuable live stock, would I employ a farm hand or stableman, even at so low wage as $15 month, who knew as little about the proper feeding of my ami mals as know about the proper feed ing of myself and my childreni'
 The 'B'' of Our Own Nutrition" deals with the mechanical and chem ical physiology of nutrition.
 First, last and all the time be sure you are really hungry and not pamper ing false appetite" instructs Mfr. Fletcher. eff true appetite that will relish plain bread alone is not present, wait for it. Especially beware of the early morning habit craving, Wait for an earned appetite if you have to wait until noon; then chew .smasticate,' 'munch,' bite and taste everything you take into your mouth except wa ter, which has not taste.
 'S1p and taste milk and all hQufds that have taste, as the wine tasters do. They never drink wine, and yet they get all the enjoyment there is in 1t and waste none. In short time slipping and tasting liquids and masu- eating and tasting solid food for 'aIl they are worth will become an agreed ble and profitable fixed habit. Wheth- foat f0 Two Hvn %o why not do as aboveT'