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To most Americans one meal per day would seem like starvation, but many thin persons have been known to gain greatly in weight by the adoption of this abstemious diet. The explanation of this apparent phenomenon is simple. When following the regular three-meal plan, they had acquired a habit of eating beyond their power to properly digest, and of eating at meal time regardless of whether an appetite existed or not, and the result of this pernicious practice was naturally disordered and weakened digestive organs, and when the one-meal plan was adopted the food was not taken until there was an actual need for it, until the stomach was able to receive and dispose of it, and the natural result was gradual increase in weight and strength.

One's habits in eating must be determined largely by his occupation. One meal each day,