The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-CureEdward Hooker Dewey
The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
Edward Hooker Dewey
Essays
Book language: English
150 pages
A collection of essays on health reform by an American physician, advocating the 'no breakfast' plan and fasting as a means of restoring the body. Dewey argues that eating less often, and giving digestion rest, can promote wellbeing. It offers a window into nineteenth-century dietary and natural-healing ideas.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
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