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 90 Nuts are eaten, with thorough mastication, as the appetite of the user directs. If oil alone is employed a quantity of something like an ounce of American cotton-seed oil three or four times a day is swallowed—one of these doses with each of the two daily meals that are advised. Inouye San, former instructor of jiu-jitsu in the Nagasaki police school, advised that both nuts and oil be used, with the condition that oil be given some preference over nuts. Real olive oil may be used, but the American cotton-seed oil is equally valuable from the dietetic standpoint.

The habit of sleeping out of doors is also advised by Inouye San for the months when the weather is clement enough. At such times the body is not to be clothed, and the bedcoverings are to be as light in weight as comfort will permit. One who lives on a farm is able to find a secluded, tree-surrounded spot where he can sleep in this manner without shocking neighbourhood proprieties. The city dweller is compelled to place his cot at a point so far distant from a wire screen that the dread of prying eyes will not annoy him.