Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1912 — Eat? Wasted Time, Say Keep Wellers [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Eat? Wasted Time, Say Keep Wellers

CLEVELAND, O.—Why eat? Members of the Keep Well club, who told their experiences at a foodless picnic the other day in Wade park, declared a man can go without nourishment for thirty days and feel like a bear cat, and that it i 3 simple and delightful to exist for eight nonths on a daily ration of eight Quarts of milk. The club members advise any one with'a stomachache to. quit eating for owhile. It is fun after three days, declared Dr. C. M. Swingle, who has tried it. How to be strong as a bull moose and still eat nothing was told at the picnic by A. G. Freeman, who once went without food for eighteen days straight. S. P. Brooks is the milk diet fiend. If you backslide, you may do as some of the Keep-W’ellers do, and de»

your a hearty lunch. The menu might be: One peanut One orange. One lettuce leaf. “Once I went eight months without nourishment except eight quarts of milk a day,” said Brooks. “I gained forty pounds. Since then I have lived on milk for varying periods. Now I am taking tw® quarts a day, in the morning and evening. The only other nourishment I receive Is at 11 o’clock in the morning, when I eat a light lunch of nuts and occasionally an orange. But on Saturday I omit the lunch, because Sunday is a day of rest.” , -• . • Swingle said that it is easy to go without food for short periods. He said that after the first three days appetite leaves. He advised, however, that anything bqt a short fast should be taken under the direction of a physician^ “I went without food for eleven days and could carry a market basket without being tempted to eat,” said Swingle. Swingle said milk and lemons is a diet that is good for tuberculars, under the direction of a physician.