Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1904-01-29

toria In New York Says Wait for
Real Appetite and MaSticnte Thor
ouEhIy-in His work, 1.-The A Ii
of Our own Nutrition" lie Asks ~
Man Is Competent 10 he Chauffeur
OF His own Body.
Horace Fletcher Of New Haven
Conn, the man who boarded at the
Waldorf Astoria hotel. in New YORK,
for 81 a day, has declared in II new
book. The \ b Il OF our own Nutri'
ton" that Americans eat too much ana
eat unwisely. says the Chicago Trib-
une. The result, lac says, is loss of
energy and an invitation TO disease.
The majority of those who violate the
laws OF health 10y overealng do SO. he
asserts. through ignorance and not be
cause they are giutons.
The author has found way how not
to eat too much, according to his own
statement. and at the same time eat
all the appetite desires and in way
combining Il maximum of good taste
and a minimum of cost and waste. The
monetary saving by economic nutrl-
ton. he adds, is of little matter as com
pared with 'he saving of the waste OF
energy and the menace of disease.
In his introduction Mr.. Fletcher says:
Mature never intended that we should
weaken. derress and distress ourselves
in the way that is common 10 present
day living as is made evident by the
prevalence. of discomfort and disease
relative 10 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. Some Pertinent
/ Questions" Mr.. Fletcher asks;
considering my body as an engine,
would | accept myself as a competent
engineer on my own examination and
confession:
Were | IN iron and steel automobile
instead of flesh and blood automobile
which | really am. could get a 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 power?
Were | an owner of valuable live
stock, would | employ a farm hand
or a stableman, even at so low Il wage
as SIS a month. who knew as little
about the proper feeding of my ami
mails as know about the proper feed
ing of myself and my children?"
The "B' of "Our Own Nutrition
deals with the mechanical and chem
ical physiology of nutrition.
First, last and all the time be sur,
you are really hungry and not pamper
ing false appetite" instructs Mr.
Fletcher "If true appetite that vii
relish plain bread alone is not present
wait for it. Especially beware of tn,
early morning habit craving Wait fol
an earned appetite if you have to wal
until noon; then chew 'masticate,
munich, bite and taste everything
you take into your mouth except wa
ter, which mas not taste
"Sip and caste milk and all liquid
that have taste, as the wine taster
do. They never drink wine, and ye
they get all the enjoyment there is il
it and waste none. In short TIM
slipping and tasting liquids and masti
eating and tasting solid food for al
they are worth will become an agreea
bic and profitable fixed habit Wheth
er we eat to live or live to eat VIII.
not do as above?"