When to eat is equally as important as what to eat. The digestive organs must be ready to receive and digest the food or it will poison the blood instead of creating new vitality. People follow habits and customs in eating about as they follow other habits, without investigating to learn if they are beneficial or otherwise. What they see their neighbors do they think they must do. This is particularly true in regard to eating. Most people eat three meals a day. Why? Because other people do it, not because their systems need it. Some say they are hungry. Hunger in most cases is but a habit faithfully responding at a certain hour, because the stomach has learned from past experience that it must take in another load at certain times each day whether it can digest it or not.

The majority of people have little or no appetite in the early morning. They, however, through ignorance and habit, force themselves to eat. The eating of food at any time when there is not a natural hunger for it is very disastrous, but the eating of food in the morning is especially destructive and devitalizing. Let me tell you why. Food is used by the system to build up tissue. Through mental and physical exercise, tissue is constantly broken down and the process of elimination carries it away as waste or dead matter. Food well digested and carried to all parts of the body through the blood builds up new tissue, and thus keeps the disintegrating and recuperative processes equalized. The process of rebuilding is done mainly during sleep. Food should be eaten in sufficient quantities to rebuild all waste tissue, but should not be taken in excess of the system's requirements. The greater the exercise and consequent destruction, the greater the food supply that will be needed. If, during the day, a man eats what his system needs and his digestion is normal, the stomach finishes its task during the night's sleep, fresh food-laden blood goes to all parts of the body, builds up all waste, replaces all broken down cells and puts the whole system in perfect repair. He awakes in the morning a new man. He has no need of stimulants or food. He is from Nature's standpoint ready for the day's activities. His head is clear, his blood is warm and courses through the arteries with a steady pulsation and the vitalizing currents sweep over the nerves and fire his entire body with new, throbbing, pulsating life. He enters upon his daily tasks with courage and avidity. Four to six hours of exercise again destroys myriads of cells; the broken down tissue has begun to make way for new material, and, in the meantime, the digestive organs have had their much-needed rest, the gastric juices have had time to accumulate through the organs of secretion and are ready to digest a normal amount of food. Food taken under these favorable conditions is quickly digested and goes at once on its mission of healthful repair. The omis sion of the morning meal incites natural hunger, natural hunger calls with keen relish for plain, substantial and less expensive foods; hence, hunger relish and not an artificial or cultivated taste relish. By this plan of eating but two meals a day, at noon and 6 P. M., you get the benefit of all the food you eat and therefore do not need so much. By the unnatural habit of three meals a day, excessive quantities of food is forced to pass through the body, only a part of which can be digested and assimilated. The stomach is given no rest. It is loaded in the morning and must carry that burden until noon, slowly trying to dispose of that which it had no use for and for the digestion of which its exhausted supply of gastric juice is wholly inadequate. By the time the stomach has begun to appropriate the breakfast, another meal is forced in upon it. Then it must carry the double burden into the afternoon and evening. Then the evening meal adds still further to the burden. The result, is greatly overworked digestive organs, the retention in the system of masses of undigested and decaying matter, the generation of poisonous gases, which poison the blood and create the various forms of disease.

The advantages to be gained from omitting the morning meal are countless. My advice to you is not to eat your first meal before eleven o'clock. If you have been in the habit of taking breakfast, break the habit. Begin the day by drinking a glass of pure water and eating a little fruit, then should the hunger, due to habit, annoy you before noon drink more pure water. After a few days you can leave off the fruit also and you will not become hungry before noon. The hunger you experience then will be pleasant, while the artificial hunger was painful.

I offer no advice that I do not know from personal experience and the experience of many others to be founded upon logical and scientific facts. I have both seen and experienced the benefits from the methods I am teaching you, therefore, you can have absolute confidence in them.

The articles of food which contain the greatest nutriment and at the same time require the least expenditure of energy to digest will now receive my attention.