Indiscriminate eating and overeating are prolific causes of rheumatism, kidney disease, heart disease, liver troubles, obesity, arteriosclerosis, and apoplexy. These diseases are notoriously on the increase and must be construed as a direct consequence of the tendency of the American people to overeat and to eat indiscriminately. BRAN AS A FOOD.--In the chapter on constipation there may be found a formula for making bran muffins. These muffins are invaluable to children in health, and to the victim of indigestion or constipation, whether child or adult. One muffin with each meal will solve the problem of constipation in growing children without the use of drugs or other aid. They will regulate the bowels of adults in many instances without resorting to drugs. Raw fruit in season, or stewed fruit, or a baked apple, with a light boiled egg and one bran muffin, is an ample and a nourishing breakfast for a child at school. For lunch the same child should have a plate of thoroughly done vegetable soup, a bran muffin, and more fruit. After school, a glass of milk with two or three Graham wafers may be given. For dinner the child at school may have a mixed meal. This meal should not be later than six-thirty o'clock and the child should retire at eight-thirty at the latest. A bran muffin should be taken with this meal unless the child's bowels are too loose. Mothers should insist on their children eating these muffins. If a child eats only what it likes it will not eat what is good for it. If the mother insists in the right way she will win; if she does not the child will win. If the child wins, the mother is the wrong kind of mother. I do not know of any other single article of diet that is of such value to growing children as these bran muffins. Children who eat them regularly will have less sickness than other children; they will be strong, healthy and full of energy. The bran in itself is not responsible for this list of excellent acquirements, but the regular eating of the bran is. Most ailments of children are of gastro-intestinal origin; bran keeps the entire length of the gastro-intestinal tract sweet and clean; if the child eats a bran muffin with each meal it will not have much desire or much room for any other form of bread or pastry. If white bread or pastry is abstained from the child will not have indigestion, or constipation, and hence it will not be constantly poisoning itself as most children do whose diet is not restricted and whose bowels are more or less constipated. These muffins should be made of the ordinary unsifted bran. If this is not procurable the sifted bran (Johnstone's) may be employed. This bran may be bought in any good grocery.