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Two meals each day will furnish necessary nourishment for any one, no matter what his occupation may be. The idea that the stomach must never be empty, that it must have something to work on or it will digest itself is the product of brains that cannot deduce true conclusions from plain facts. For the past fifteen years I have personally followed the two-meal a day habit. On numerous occasions I have tried, three, four and even five meals a day, but on comparison of my mental and physical condition with that which was usual on the two-meal plan I always went back to two meals. At the time when I was doing the hardest physical work I ever was occupied with during my entire life, I only ate two daily meals, and one of these was usually a light lunch. This was when training for hard championship wrestling matches, and there is really