/Fourth Day/: BREAKFAST One or two ripe bananas Raisins or figs; or nuts or nut butter Two or three glasses of fresh milk LUNCHEON Baked beans or lentils, with olive-oil or fresh butter Two or three eggs; preferably uncooked DINNER Two or three eggs, with two teaspoonfuls of sugar; whip seven or eight minutes; add two glasses of milk; mix thoroughly; drink slowly Bran meal gems Half a cup of bran, cooked /Fifth Day/: Same as the fourth. /Sixth Day/: Same as the first. /Seventh Day/: Same as the second, repeating the menus for a period of thirty to forty days, varying them by selecting such vegetables as appeal most to the taste. If the bowels should become constipated, take half a cup of cleansed wheat bran, cooked, with the breakfast, and, just before retiring, another half cup in hot water. If possible, spend from two to three hours each day in the open air, taking vigorous exercise. Oxygen is nature's great stimulant and life-giver. Eat slowly and masticate very thoroughly. If there is a tendency toward obesity, sugar should be omitted from the meals entirely. Proteid foods should predominate in the diet. The following are the most soluble and readily assimilable group of proteid foods suitable for these menus, given in the order of richness and importance: Eggs Shell-fish Gelatin Milk Fish Fowl--white meat Milk products End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Encyclopedia of Diet, Vol. 4 (of 5), by Eugene Christian