The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-CureDewey, Edward Hooker
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The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure
Dewey, Edward Hooker
Fasting; Nutrition
"I had made my views known to the parents and daughter when the
case commenced, and after the failure of these methods they
decided to let me have charge of the case, which was on Sept.
30, 1899. I at once requested them to send her to the house of
some friends to whom I made my views known. We then discharged
the nurse who had gone with her. With doctor and nurse gone
there was free room for Nature's victory (the young lady being
as deeply interested as any). We put her upon the rest, which
was the only needed sign since her first signs of breakdown
appeared Oct. 2, at the supper table, being the last meal she
has taken up to to-day, Nov. 9, this being, as you will see, the
thirty-eighth day of her fast, with cheerfulness and strength
holding full sway. I put her to bed on the first day, to which
she kept, with an occasional day in the rocker, until the
eleventh day, when she took a walk of about one mile. Then she
rested indoors until the twentieth day, when we went to church,
walking a little over two miles, with no fatigue or tired
feelings. I forgot to mention that we had been out driving in
the bracing air for over three hours in the afternoon. On the
twenty-first and twenty-second days, indoors, walking and
working around the house, reading, etc. On the twenty-third day
walked through the country for three miles, stopping at friends
to enlighten them upon 'Nature's Laws;' twenty-fourth day, eight
miles, no fatigue; twenty-fifth day, between seven and eight
miles, no fatigue; twenty-sixth day, walked one and a half
hours; twenty-ninth day, rainy, no walks; thirtieth day, walked
in the evening for two and a half hours; thirty-first day,
walked seven miles, no fatigue; thirty-second day, rainy, no
walks; thirty-third day, went to the Exposition, walked all day
from 2 P. M. until 11.30 P. M. (with rest while at the
performance we attended of not over one and a quarter hours),
this being the only resting, possibly two hours, during the
whole time.
"Weight taken at the start, one hundred and forty pounds; at the
Exposition one hundred and twenty-five and three-quarters
pounds; no sense of tired feeling, but hunger started to assert
itself for a period of about three hours, after which it passed
over.
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