Intestinal congestion (constipation), which is almost universal among sedentary workers, is caused in nearly all cases by consuming a quantity of food in excess of the physical demands, and which cannot be thrown off owing to the lack of exercise. It is at this point that science must lay out the dietetic regimen so as to make it conform to the occupation, or to the lack of physical activity. The following are suggestions for a spring or summer diet for the average sedentary worker: BREAKFAST Cantaloup, berries or peaches, with sugar and cream An egg One or two bananas, with nuts, cream, and raisins (Bananas should be baked, if not very ripe) LUNCHEON Peas, beans, or asparagus A heaping tablespoonful of nuts A salad of lettuce and tomatoes, with nuts A baked potato, tender corn, or a very little coarse bread DINNER Melon or cantaloup Two tablespoonfuls of nuts One or two fresh vegetables, including an ear of tender corn Fish, eggs, or buttermilk Plain ice-cream, if something sweet is desired GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR SEDENTARY WORKER The student will recognize that in these menus the heavier foods are prescribed sparingly, while the lighter or the more readily soluble articles predominate. From these suggestions a fair idea of a fall and winter diet can be drawn. Indigestion, sour stomach (hyper-chlorhydria), constipation, malassimilation, and general anemia are the disorders with which the sedentary worker is most commonly afflicted. In dealing with each and all of these conditions, including obesity, which is often the result of sedentary habits, the first thing to be done is to limit the quantity of food to the normal requirements of the body, and in extreme cases a diet below the normal should be observed; no one was ever made ill by underfeeding. Then, with proper care as to the selection, combination, and proportions of food, and an increased amount of exercise and deep breathing, the person of sedentary habits should be made as healthy and strong as the outdoor worker in the fields of manual labor. CLIMATIC EXTREMES In considering a diet to meet the requirements of climatic extremes, either hot or cold, it is necessary to reckon from normality, both as to climate and as to the health of the individual. All the foregoing lessons, taken as a whole, are designed to teach one method or theory, involving two principles: 1 Selections, combinations, and proportions of food that will counteract and remove the causes of unnatural conditions called dis-ease 2 Selections, combinations, and proportions of food that will bring the body up to its highest degree of development and there maintain it