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Though I believe either the two or the one-meal plan would be found superior to three meals each day, one can undoubtedly follow this usual method and still retain vigorous health if he will occasionally fast by missing one or two meals, or a day or two when the appetite fails; and if he will abstain totally from food when illness of any kind threatens. In eating three meals daily there is always far more danger of eating beyond the capacity to digest. One meal is sometimes not digested when the next meal is eaten. The food, under these circumstances, is eaten with less appetite, and all the ills that are brought about by the sin of eating as a duty are invited. If three light meals can be eaten each day, always with appetite, and if they seem to digest without trouble, there is no very serious objection; but the moment any digestive disturbance