Fletcherism : what it is or, how I became young at sixty / by Horace Fletcher.

  • Horace Fletcher
Date:
[1913?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Fletcherism : what it is or, how I became young at sixty / by Horace Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    How I Became a Fletcherite. chewed my food carefully until I extracted all taste from it there was in it, and until it slipped unconsciously down my throat. When the appetite ceased, and I was thereby told that I had had enough, I stopped; and I had no desire to eat any more until a real appetite commanded me again. Then I again chewed carefully- eating always whatever the appetite craved. THE FIVE PRINCIPLES OF FLETCHERISM. I had now found out five things ; all that there is to my discovery relative to optimum nutrition; and to the fundamental requisite of what is called Fletcherism. First: Wait for a true, earned appetite. Second: Select from the food available that which appeals most to appetite, and in the order called for by appetite. Third: Get all the good taste there is in food out of it in the mouth, and swallow only when it practically “ swallows itself.” Fourth: Enjoy the good taste for all it is worth, and do not allow any depressing or diverting thought to intrude upon the ceremony.
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