Record of careful tests and results will probably follow in another volume. The author has entered the field of investigation to find deterrents to Nature's perfect development and will not rest while any remain.[15]
[Footnote 15: At the present time, five years after this promise was made, the author is happy to say that it has been faithfully kept and with important results steadily accruing.]
With even the crude hint, _that health can be secured and maintained by consulting and respecting Appetite and Taste_, each person having either can assist in the investigation.
For initial experiment, do not change any of your present habits of living as to time of meals, kind of food, etc.
Following the directions given hereafter will undoubtedly lead to just the right thing for you in these regards.
There is no doubt but that the early morning meal is not productive of the best results in nutrition and strength, but it is better to have Appetite suggest the necessary change in accustomed habits. Dr. Dewey's advice in the "No-Breakfast" regimen is excellent. The getting-up craving is not an _earned_ appetite.
Forced abstinence from a heavy morning meal will _surely_ bring about normal conditions of appetite which are best adapted to perfect nutrition, so that if the invitation to give up the morning gorge voluntarily does not overcome perverse habit, the heroic denial may be tried.
The value of the discovery lies in recognising the fact that Taste still has important work to do with passing food while yet there is taste, and that what remains after Taste ceases to express itself should _not_ go into the stomach.
The ease with which one will learn to enjoy and "hang on" to food in the mouth, even milk and soup, after he has learned a good reason for doing so, will quickly create a counter habit which is in accordance with Nature's _perfect way_.
When one has discovered the delight of _that last indescribably sweet flash of taste_, which Taste offers as a _pousse café_ to those who serve it with respect, he will find _any_ food that Appetite selects is needed for his nutrition, and is good.
Remember this! Salt, sugar, some sauces and spices which are used to make food palatable may be in themselves nutritious, but do not let them mislead you. The tendency is to relish them and think that they represent the food they disguise, which, however, is often only an excuse for them, and has very little nutrition itself. In this case a morsel of food is taken into the mouth, the sauce or spice which it carries meets immediate response from Taste and disappears, whereupon the indigestible food morsel is swallowed in indigestible condition so as to admit another sauce-laden supply.