The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition
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THE A. B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION
HORACE FLETCHER’S WORKS
THE A. B.-Z. OF OUR OWN NUTRITION. 462 pp. Just issued.
THE NEW MENTICULTURE; or, The A-B-C of True Living. Fortieth thousand. 310 pp.
THE NEW GLUTTON OR EPICURE; or, Economic Nutrition. 324 pp. Just issued.
HAPPINESS as found in Forethought minus Fearthought. Tenth thousand. 251 pp.
THAT LAST WAIF; or, Social Quarantine. 270 pp.
By HORACE FLETCHER Author of “Menticulture,” “Happiness,” “That Last Waif,” “Glutton or Epicure,” Etc., Etc.
Experimentally Assisted by DR. ERNEST VAN SOMEREN, M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., of Venice, Italy & DR. HUBERT HIGGINS, M.A., M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., of Cambridge, England
NEW YORK • FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY • PUBLISHERS
Horace Fletcher
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
POSTINTRODUCTORY
EXPLANATION
SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS
PREFACE TO 1906 EDITIONS
FIRST SCIENTIFIC RECOGNITION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMIC NUTRITION OUTLINED IN “GLUTTON OR EPICURE”
WAS LUIGI CORNARO RIGHT?
THE CAMBRIDGE TESTS
REPORT OF A PLAN FOR THE INSTITUTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL INQUIRY INTO THE SUBJECT OF HUMAN NUTRITION
PROPOSAL TO FOUND AN INTERNATIONAL LABORATORY OF RESEARCH FOR THE STUDY OF NUTRITION IN ALL ITS ASPECTS
NATIONALITY AND SCIENTIFIC TITLES OF OUR BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC ASSESSORS
PERSISTENT SCIENTIFIC DOUBTS
INTRODUCTION TO DR. HARRY CAMPBELL’S CONTRIBUTION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF MASTICATION
PROFESSOR PAWLOW’S DEMONSTRATIONS OF PSYCHIC INFLUENCE IN DIGESTION
LECTURE IV
DR. EDWARD HOOKER DEWEY AND THE “NO BREAKFAST PLAN”
PROFESSOR JAFFA AND THE FRUITARIANS
Index
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