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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 27, 1911

Maximum Health on Minimum Food

DIETETIC experiments the world over prove beyond a doubt that we have always eaten altogether more than is required by the system to maintain a proper balance. The Trappist monks, who do an extraordinary amount of agricultural and other work, live on one meal a day. A great many people find it decidedly advantageous to cut down the number to two.

Horace Fletcher, for instance, shows that a man can be maintained in superb health and vigor, not for a week or a month, but indefinitely, at a cost not exceeding fifteen cents a day. The smallest amount of protein with non-nitrogenous food added that will suffice to keep the body in a state of continual vigor, is the ideal diet.— The Designer.