Your success or failure in your effort at dietary reform will hinge largely upon your attitude to your own life. You will have to form and fix new habits at the same time you uproot and cast out the old ones. This requires that you go through periods of readjustment which you will never go through except on the conditions that you really desire to go through them and that you have the trophologic knowledge essential to guide you through this period. Iron in your will is often more important than iron in your food.

Habit will accustom you to whatever is best if you "stick it out," but you must be able to resist the temptations of the lunch-counters of "commercialized kitchendom" and withstand the taunts of your ignorant and misguided, though often well-meaning friends and family. Persist in your determination to form good habits as you did in forming the tobacco habit over the protests of your organic instincts, and you will certainly succeed. You can learn to like any good food which you may not now relish, even more quickly than you learned to like the taste of beer.

By a recognition of the simple rule that what is not for me is against me, it becomes easily possible to cultivate proper attitudes towards dietary practices.