The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-13
PERFECT FEEDING OF THE HUMAN BODY
THE ART OF EATING THE RIGHT FOOD IN THE
RIGHT QUANTITY, AND THE HEALTH AND
STRENGTH GAINED THEREBY-THE PERSON
AL EXPERIENCE OF Mr.. HORACE FLETCHER
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BY ISAAC F. MARcossoN.

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Do we eat too much? For years
physicians have told US that we do, but
| most of US have kept on eating the
same amount. We have not stopped to
find out how much too much we eat
But one man-dr. Horace Fletcher
has reduced the science Of simple uv-
ing and of perfect nutrition to a def
mite basis. For five years he has
lived On one-third the quantity of
food that a healthy workingman eats.
He is sound in body: he can ride his
bicycle a hundred miles a day; and he
can take at any time the exercises pre-
scribed for an athlete in training He
is now ffty-four years of age.
How does he accomplish this? SIM
ply by eating what his appetite Graves
and no more. and by chewing his food
thoroughly. Mr.. Fletcher has been a
successful importer and manufacturer
at New York, San Francisco, New
Orleans. and Chicago. His business
REQUIRED him to travel much. He now
makes his home at Venice. Italy, but
he spends much time every year in
with simple food because life insurance
was refused to him on account of a
stomach trouble. His means permitted
him to devote all his time TO expert
ments in scientific nutrition. How he
found out what kind Of food to eat
and how much to eat is lesson in
right living that is useful to everybody.
As a result of his work twenty pri-
Yates from the hospital corps of the
United States Army are living on SIM
pie diet at Yale University TO find out
the minimum amount of food required
for men under ordinary conditions of
life.
The important thing that Mr.. Fleteh-
er has diseovered-or at least enpha-
sized in his writfngs-is that the ap-
petite can be made a trustworthy guide
as TO both the kind and the quantity
of food. If the taste be highly cul-
tivated by proper use Of the digestive
Juices of the mouth, the throat soon
ceases to pass TO the stomach improper
food or too much food.
7 have seen Mr.. Fletcher eat. work
and play. We went TO New Haven,
Connecticut, together. I met him at
seven o'clock in the morning at the
Grand Central Station in New YoT-z
He had been up since five o'clock and
had written more than 1000 words on
his typewriter He looked fresh and
rudy.
Have you had breakfast" I asked.
At have not eaten anything" he re-
piled.
We went into the dining-room at the
station. He ordered a cup of coffee and
a nitcber of hot milk He poured out
half OF the coffee and then filed the
cun with milk. Instead of swallowing
the coffee at once. he took q sip and ]
kept it in his mouth about half min
,1te Then he took another and did !
the same thing While he took two !
sips I took eight swallows.
Il taste what I sip said Mr. |
Fletcher, and you do not Try my |
way"
did. and I found that I got more |
taste of the one mouthful Of coffee |
than Of all that I had drunk before. |
On the train Mr.. Fletcher smoked a |
cigar.
ed
No" he replied. But I smoke
whenever I feel like it
Al New Haven we walked three
miles. visiting various university build
nrs He ran up three flights Of stairs
# the art gallery: he ran UP the thirty
TWO winding steps at the gymnasium
md down again. without losing breath
To catch a street-car we ran DOCK
md half Mr. Fletcher led the way.
md he sat down in the car. At lunch
"a ata a Iaat of lettuce with oil