The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure

The author argues for therapeutic fasting and the abandonment of routine morning meals, recounting a professional shift from drug-based practice to Nature-centered hygiene. He offers physiological arguments for withholding food during acute illness and for a sustained practice of omitting the morning meal, illustrated by clinical anecdotes and press-reported prolonged fasts said to relieve fevers, digestive disorders, obesity, alcoholism, and mental disturbance. Chapters survey brain and digestive physiology, the importance of thorough mastication and food choice, critiques of enforced feeding and drugs, and practical guidance for supervised fasting. The work combines case histories, theoretical claims about bodily reserves during abstinence, and prescriptive dietary reform.