F L E T C H E R I S M :
WHAT IT IS
OR
HOW I BECAME YOUNG
AT SIXTY
BY
HORACE FLETCHER, M.A.,
CHAPTER V
WHAT IS PROPER MASTICATION ?
“The
National Food Reform Association of England,
in a
bulletin giving advice concerning the
feeding
of school children, intended to be posted
in
schoolrooms and private dining rooms,
speaks
of Fletcherizing in its ideal practice as
"
Excessive Mastication."
This is just what Fletcherizing is not. The
very
essence of the method of performing the
personal
responsibility is avoiding excess of
anything,
excessive or laboured chewing among
the
rest.“
“The
things that require to be chewed long are not good
food,
and by that sign you may find out their
unprofitableness
better than in any other way.”
“I believe that it
is impossible to have too much saliva mixed
with
it when it is swallowed, because when it is
properly
tasted and insalivated it is almost
impossible
to hold it back from the food gate at
the
back of the mouth.”
“Excessive
chewing, can only be performed with
painful
tediousness. It makes work—hard
work—of
the act, and that is just as much
opposed to Fletcherizing as it is to common
sense, horse sense, and all of the natural senses.”
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