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 with fasting, it can be massaged and pinched away and the muscles will contract so that it will never return.

Wrinkles under the chin are caused by sagging muscles on the back of the neck. When these are tightened by fasting and massage and the new body comes on, they act as a strong guard against future looseness. Hollow cheeks and skinny faces, bones and hollow chests are all set free by the Fast, massage and exercise. When the new food body appears, the hollows are normally filled and a soft contour takes the place of the old ugliness.

Mental states and mental pressure set their stamp in the physical form and face; "As a man thinketh, so is he" and every person thirty years old wears the stigmata of his own thoughts. There is also an occupation personality,—we say "He looks like a farmer, or a preacher, or a professional man, or a business man" and this tells us something, without seeing the person, of his personality.

There is nothing so pitiful as a retired business man trying to be an idle gentleman with marks of his old business all over him. A working woman's face does not fit well the get-rich-quick situation. Child-birth leaves its mark on the faces and forms of most mothers, but there is no reason why the grandmother should bear yet upon her face and form the traces of conditions which have ceased fifteen or twenty years ago.

All such impressions are set in the food body and when this is changed, the whole personality