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Rh to eating quite as forcibly as it does to other habits or pursuits in life. Much has been said in condemnation of the person who "lives to eat," but the one who really and truly lives so that the greatest possible enjoyment from eating can be secured, will eat practically but one full meal daily, and will dwell on the delectable flavor of every morsel, that this meal may continue from an hour to an hour and a half. The dietetic enjoyment secured by an ordinary everyday Epicure, who eats three meals a day, is as nothing compared to the intensity of that pleasure derived from eating as described. It is like comparing the dulled, transient and intermittent sensations secured from overworked and deadened nerves to those intense emotions aroused in one whose nerves are alive with joy and power of superb physical life.

It would be well, also, to note that the retaining of a normal appetite—of that sense of taste which enables you to discriminate not only as to the character of food needed, but