Immediately on rising, take two or three tablespoonfuls of orange juice and drink two glasses of water. If there is a tendency toward fermentation, the orange juice should be omitted.

Exercise in the open air before breakfast.

Breakfast

Two eggs, cooked two minutes

A small, baked potato - sweet or white

One glass of milk

A cup of water

Luncheon

A large, boiled onion and either green peas or asparagus A glass of water

Dinner

A small portion of fish

A baked white potato - eat skins and all; masticate thoroughly

One or two vegetables, such as peas, beans, or asparagus

One egg white in half a glass of milk Half a glass of water

Luncheon should be omitted unless quite hungry.

Summer Menu. For Mental Worker To Increase Brain Efficiency

Choice of the following menus:

Dinner

Choice of two fresh vegetables

Two glasses of milk or a small portion of fish

Two medium-sized baked white potatoes or baked beans

Choice of two fresh vegetables A baked white potato Two or three egg whites Baked peas, beans, or lentils

Every atom of food composing these meals should be masticated to exceeding fineness, and two glasses of water drunk at every meal.

If something sweet is desired, a spoonful of raisins and nuts might be taken at the close of the dinner meal.

Fall Menu. For Mental Worker To Increase Brain Efficiency

First Day: On rising, take a bunch of grapes (swallow seeds and pulp without mastication), a glass of water, and devote from eight to ten minutes to exercises Nos. 3 and 5. See Vol. V, pp. 1344 and 1345.

Breakfast

One or two exceedingly ripe bananas (red variety preferred), eaten with thin cream, raisins or figs, and butter

Two glasses of milk

Luncheon

One whole egg, boiled two minutes

Whole wheat, thoroughly cooked; nut butter

Two glasses of milk

Note: If not hungry, omit both the whole wheat and the egg and take from two to three glasses of milk. For gaining weight, this would be preferable.

Dinner

Choice of carrots, squash, turnips, or parsnips One whole egg, boiled two minutes; or an omelet

Two medium-sized baked white potatoes One glass of milk

Note: From one to one and one-half glasses of water should be drunk at each of these meals.

If constipated, eat two medium bunches of Concord grapes, swallowing skins, seeds and pulp without mastication. Drink a glass of water and spend from five to ten minutes in active exercise and deep breathing just before retiring.

Second Day: The same as the first, slightly increasing the quantity of food if normal hunger requires it. Bran biscuits may be taken instead of whole wheat if preferred.

Third Day: The same as the first, omitting the egg at dinner time, and substituting a small quantity of fish (smelts preferred).

Fourth Day:

Breakfast

A cantaloup

Half a glass of water

A small portion of oatmeal, very thoroughly cooked

Two exceedingly ripe bananas, eaten with figs, cream, and nuts

A cup of chocolate

Luncheon

Two eggs - prepared choice Two medium-sized potatoes

Dinner

A salad with oil and nuts, Corn, beans, carrots, cabbage - any two of these A potato Junket or gelatin

Fifth Day: The same as the fourth, with the exception of dinner. At this meal a bit of fish, chicken, or an egg may be eaten.

Sixth Day: The same as the first, repeating these menus for about two weeks, making such changes as the appetite demands in vegetables and fruit only.

Winter Menu. For Mental Worker To Increase Brain Efficiency

Eggs, milk, and sugar are the most readily convertible nutrients known to the science of food chemistry. In combination they represent the highest form of the nitrogenous (proteids and the carbohydrate) compounds, therefore to increase physical efficiency one should take as much of these as possible.

If one is under weight, it would be advisable, especially during the cold weather, to take three eggs for breakfast, four eggs with a quart of milk for luncheon, and a vegetable dinner as laid out in Menu II.

Choice of the following menus:

Where as many as four eggs are taken at once, a tablespoonful of cognac brandy will make the yolks more digestible and more assimilable, therefore in curative feeding its purpose is medicinal.