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habit of eating so many times a day whether hungry or not; third, the continual tempting of the appetite through variety of diarrhea. Of course, the latter two causes are branches of the first.
The cure and the proof of the new physiology is to eat plain foods, cut out one meal a day, and take 36-hour fasts once a week for say four or five months. The improvement in feelings and endurance, and the change in appetite and tastes will prove the matter to all but the most hopelessly prejudiced minds.
Now, note that normal fowls hunt food "nearly continuously," but they come a long way from eating continuously. And the hunting and scratching enable them to make good use of all. food they can find.
Every poulterer knows that fowls penned up and overfed lay few eggs and suffer from numerous diseases.
And no animals come anywhere near eating "nearly continuously" except cattle, and they exercise while eating, and if they get over the fence into a too rich field they soon die of over-eating.
If you were to weigh the total amount a cow eats in a day, even in good pasturage, you would find she consumes less in proportion to her weight than the ordinary human being does. And she exercises nearly all the time and gives milk into the bargain.
Another correspondent takes exceptions to Mr. Wattle's statements: about fear and digestion, and
