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best possible condition for work. Why should you eat? It takes power to run the stomach; why not save the power for your other work! You are not really hungry; there is no such thing as a normal hunger on arising in the morning, in a person who has been sufficiently fed on the previous day. Your morning appetite is a matter of habit; of mental attitude You eat because you are afraid you will get faint later in the day; or you tickle your palate. with sweet foods until you arouse a taste for more; but you never eat breakfast because you are genuinely hungry.
If you do not believe all this, put it to the best possible test; try it on yourself. Get up and go to work without eating; and if you are in anything approaching a normal condition you will find that you are in better condition for mental or physical labor with an empty stomach than with a full one.
Mind, though, much depends upon your mental attitude; remember that many people who believe in the old physiology have starved to death in ten days, while others, better taught, have fasted forty days without much discomfort. If you expect that because your stomach is empty you will have a fainting fit about ten o'clock, the fainting fit will probably come; you will get just about what you look for. On the other hand, if you put the thought of food resolutely aside and go to your work without fear of any disagreeable
