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Rh Begin this body-cleansing, appetite-creating process by missing one meal (breakfast) per day. After having followed this for a while, miss two meals per day, breakfast and the noon meal, or, else, breakfast and the evening meal. This method will enable you to feel your way, step by step. After having gone without breakfast for several days, and the benefits of this have become plainly evident, you will be better prepared for the abstinence required in subsisting on only one meal per day.

The benefits that result from fasting are unquestionably greatly lessened if the confidence in its efficiency is not sufficiently strong, and this graduated process of teaching its advantages can be commended to those who are open to conviction, but who do not feel equal to a prolonged fast.