The new glutton or epicure / by Horace Fletcher.

  • Horace Fletcher
Date:
[1903], ©1903
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    are the guide in nutrition and the guard of the body machine — the Mind Power- Plant. Smell also is an important aid in selection and discrimination and is an effective assistant of Appetite. APPETITE AND TASTE ANALYSED Appetite should be dignified and recogcnised as a distinct sense. Normal Appetite is Nature’s means of indicating her fuel and repair re- quirements for the Mind Power-Plant. Study Normal Appetite and heed its invitation. It prescribes wisely. Its mark of distinction, to differentiate it from False Appetite, is “watering of the mouth ” for some particular thing. False Appetite is an indefinite crav- ing for something, anything ! to smother disagreeable sensations and frequently is expressed by the symptom of “ faint- ness ” or “ All-gone-ness.” [Vide the “ A.B.-Z. of Our Own Nutrition.”] Taste is the chemist of the body;