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Rh no harder physical work than this. At this particular time, when my muscles had to be able to withstand the enormous efforts required in struggling with well-trained and burly antagonists I had an occasion to learn in a most striking manner, the value of the two-meal-a-day plan. In a wrestling match endurance is of great value. The ability to struggle and strain apparently with all your power and still seem not to tire, is one of the necessary qualities in a successful wrestler. I was some time in acquiring this, but when I finally concluded that diet was of some importance, and began to experiment, not only with different foods, but also with the quantity necessary to maintain the greatest strength, I secured information of great value. My experiment taught me that the less you eat the better what you do eat is digested. That induced me to try the two-meal-per-day plan, and the almost immediate increase in my endurance so impressed me that the habit of eating only two meals per day has practically been followed by me ever since. On many occasions, after