Here is a hint for man. Of course if you are never sick or depressed; if you are strong and well, and growing stronger, you may need no hints. But if you are not all that you desire to be just try a little judicious starving, along with plenty of exercise and fresh air. Live on plain foods, principally fruits and nuts, and skip a meal now and then, or even half a dozen meals, until you get down through that veneer of cultivated appetite— down to real hunger, of the sort that impels a catamount to travel for miles and wait patiently for hours to find that for which he hungers.

Hunger is an infallible guide as to what to eat, and how often. It is the real voice which comes up from arteries cleansed and ready to carry fresh supply to waiting body.

But appetite is the whining call of an unrested stomach and unready arteries, which have been taught to cry at stated intervals.

Most of us are the slaves of spoiled appetite; but we have never once in our stuffed lives since childhood been really hungry and known the real joy of eating.

Clogging of the arteries and veins results in clogging brain and nerves It is impossible for a man with a clogged and diseased body to think his best. The clogging presses against nerves as well as arteries and prevents free circulation of thought

And only free thought is high thought.

A man with a clogged system will think cramped, negative thoughts. He can’t help it. His nerves are cramped. His doctor may say he is “nervous,” but “nervousness” and “weak nerves” are simply cramped nerves—cramped in a clogged system.

Now I know that it is quite possible to take the kinks out of one’s nerves by mind power alone—provided one is not too badly clogged and cramped. But high living will eventually choke off high thinking, and NO human being can reach his highest thinking along with high living. Reason and all human experience proves this.

And I leave it to you if it is not vastly more sensible to reduce your living and thus free your cramped nerves to the free flow of high thought. than to attempt to live high and force high

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