Food reform involves many changes in personal and social habits and these often come in conflict with the habits of thinking and acting of your family and associates. Unless, however, you are afraid of being lost out of the social package on the way down town, you have nothing to fear. You do not need to become a social outcast and should not do so unless you are big enough to be an outcast.

Edgar J. Saxon of England well says: "Food reform begins and ends with discrimination, choice and pleasure. Abstinence from unwholesome food is not a good beginning, and it is a very bad end. Abstinence is healthy only when it easily and invariably results from choice of something better." The emphasis should be placed on the positive side--on the side of wholesomeness, integrity, pleasure and fitness to supply the needs of the body; not on the negative side--that of mere abstinence from unwholesome foods, as essential as this is.

Food reform can take place without altering the way of feeding. White bread can be supplanted with wholewheat bread and one may then go on eating excessively of bread and eating it in all possible wrong combinations. Eating reform may and may not accompany food reform. Eating reform occurs only when one begins to eat properly.