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64 theory that compels many a poor weakling to eat because it is the usual time, and every morsel adds to the poison and filth that is already lessening his physical forces. Whatever habits of eating you may have adopted keep clearly in mind the necessity for that appetite described in previous chapter, to lead and guide you. If you do this the problem of how many meals to partake of daily will solve itself. You will at once avoid those meals for which you have no appetite and, in consequence, eat more heartily and with more benefit, of those you do enjoy. There is at least a grain of truth in the old and oft-quoted saying: "What is one man's meat is another's poison," and each individual must study out these problems for himself, and, though experiments that are extreme in character are not advised, still a trial of, first the two-meal plan, and, later the one-meal plan, can do no possible harm, and the experiment will enable you to determine just what is best for your particular needs. But little knowledge can be gained by one or two days' trial. At least a week should be devoted