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Rh to each method if you are desirous of securing knowledge of value in determining as to your personal needs. The no-breakfast method often proves its advantage by showing an increase of energy the first or second day of trial.

I have nothing to say to those who consider more than three meals per day necessary. It is simply impossible to retain vigorous health for any length of time under such dietetic intemperance, and usually a liberal quantity of alcoholic liquors must be used to spur the digestive organs to their labors, and, though this alcohol may suffice for a time, there results such a waste in vitality, such a drain on energy, that the term of life is unquestionably lessened, and serious ailments are sure to be produced sooner or later, by the habit of continually overloading the stomach.