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Preface - The Principle of Health - The Foundation of Faith - Life and Its Organisms - What to Think - Faith - Use of the Will - Health from God - Summary of the Mental Actions - When to Eat - What to Eat - How to Eat - Hunger and Appetites - In a Nutshell - Breathing - Sleep - Supplementary Instructions - A Summary of the Science of Being Well - Contents -

tastes good to you; and then begin your meal with what you like best.

In deciding how to eat, man must be guided by reason. We can see that the abnormal states of hurry and worry produced by wrong thinking about business and similar things have led us to form the habit of eating too fast, and chewing too little. Reason tells us that food should be chewed, and that the more thoroughly it is chewed the better it is prepared for the chemistry of digestion. Furthermore, we can see that the man who eats slowly and chews his food to a liquid, keeping his mind on the process and giving it his undivided attention, will enjoy more of the pleasure of taste than he who bolts his food with his mind on something else. To eat in a perfectly healthy manner, man must concentrate his attention on the act, with cheerful enjoyment and confidence; he must taste his food, and he must reduce each mouthful to a liquid before swallowing it. The foregoing

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