Word: oat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would prefer a very much different plan and I am sure that I am not alone in my preference. Instead of the hot breakfasts, with two kinds of meat and several vegetables and the light lunches, I prefer a light breakfast of coffee, chocolate and rolls with cracked wheat, oat-meal and a few other similar articles and a warm lunch instead. Let us have good soups with some warm meats and vegetables. Most men eat but a light breakfast and do not care for so much as we have at present. With this suggestion, which I recommend...
...nervousness which would probably effect the result. As regards food, Dr. Sargent said he would give a man to eat what his natural appetite craved, but the kind of food depended on what he had to do. Beef and mutton were the foundation of the diet, and oat meal, graham bread, cracked wheat and vegetables were all good, but pastry, condiments and made dishes should never be used. He believed in letting a man drink all the cold water a systematic thirst required, and that if it was really necessary to reduce the weight...