The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins.
- Horace Fletcher
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS— Continued ~ Do I appreciate how important it is to learn '• sufficient of the requirements of economic and healthy nutrition to enable me to escape the depressing and debilitating effects of a faulty nutrition. o How can I religiously ask a blessing °* upon food and then immediately sin by treating it in a manner abhorrent to the natural requirements? q If cleanliness is next to godliness M is it ^# respectable for me to slight my proper feeding in a manner that I know may induce putridity of excreta through indigestion and that may produce fatal disease? | f\ With All Eternity ahead of me, cannot I afford at least ^8* °f my time for careful feeding of my body in a manner known to favour physical health ; mental keenness ; firm- ness of character; enjoyable temperance; sex- ual vigour without morbidity. In fact, general respectability and efficiency? Having duly reasoned out logical answers to the questions, may they not seem sufficiently important to be remembered and respected as a Dietary Ten Commandments? * The Yale test reported herein by Professor Chittenden showed the possibility of full alimentation according to the requirements of Economic Nutrition in from 24 to 26 minutes daily, which is less than I4i of a day. beginners of the prac- tice of careful mouth-treatment of their food may require more time, but, whatever it may be, it is worth it. A little care for a short period will establish a right habit, and then no further tedious attention nor unusual time will be neces- sary to accomplish a perfectly healthy nutrition. [5]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
