Just before retiring, devote from three to five minutes to exercising. Drink a glass of water, take a spoonful or two of wheat bran, and either a few California grapes or the juice of an orange.
/Second Day/: The same as the first, slightly varying the meals by choosing different vegetables from the following selections:
Beans Potatoes Beets Pumpkin Cabbage Spinach Carrots Squash Onions Turnips Parsnips
/Third Day/: The same as the second, adding one very ripe banana, eaten with thin cream and raisins, to the morning meal, and a few nuts, if desired.
Banana, nut butter, raisins, and cream make a delicious combination. The entire breakfast could be made of these with good results.
/Fourth Day/: Exercise, water-drinking, and deep breathing just before retiring and just after rising, as prescribed for the first day.
A few Malaga grapes or a sweet orange Two exceedingly ripe bananas, eaten with thin cream and nut butter A cup of junket, or a small portion of gelatin with a very little sugar and thin cream One egg prepared as per recipe in "Introduction to Menus" if the appetite will accept it. (See p. 678.)
A green salad A small portion of fish or chicken A baked potato A cup of hot water
One or two fresh vegetables--choice A glass of buttermilk with a small piece of corn bread A small portion of gelatin with thin cream
If the bowels are not normal, a portion of wheat bran should be taken at the morning and the evening meal.
Both digestion and assimilation of food can be largely increased by daily taking exercise No. 3 (see Vol. V, p. 1344), vigorously, for ten or fifteen minutes just after rising and just before retiring.
/Fifth Day/: Same as the fourth, slightly increasing or decreasing the quantity of food according to hunger.
/Sixth Day/: Same as the first, repeating, for a period of two or three weeks, the menus as given, varying the meals by choosing different vegetables in the same class as those prescribed.
The juice of a sweet orange, Fruit--choice or a dish of very ripe One whole egg berries, with sugar only A bran meal gem or a small Two very ripe bananas portion of corn bread eaten with thin cream, One extremely ripe banana dates, and nuts, masticated with figs, thin cream, and exceedingly fine nuts Two glasses of water or a cup of thin cocoa