Little Lessons in Scientific Eating (23 booklets)

Eugene Christian

Published by Corrective Eating Society, Inc., 1914

About this Item

This is a collection of 23 booklets from the "Little Lessons in Scientific Eating" series by Eugene Christian. Near complete - one booklet, Lesson 24, is not included. Undated, though circa 1914-1916; Corrective Eating Society, Inc.; Maywood, New Jersey. Each booklet measures 6 3/4" tall x 4 1/2" wide. The 23 Lessons are as follows: 1. The Three Great Laws that Govern Life - Human Nutrition - Corrective Eating; 2. What Food is and its True Purpose; 3. Digestion, Assimilation and Metabolism Explained in Plain Language; 4. The Chemistry of the Body and the Chemistry of Food Explained and Simplified; 5. How Wrong Eating Causes Disease; 6. How Foods Cure, or How Foods Establish Health by Removing the Causes of Disease; 7. Scientific Eating Explained, Simplified and Made Practical with Sample Menus; 8. Harmonious Combinations of Food and Digestive Inharmonies; 9. How to Select, Combine and Proportion Your Food According to Age with Sample Menus; 10. How to Select, Combine and Proportion Your Food According to Your Occupation and the Season of the Year with Sample Menus; 11. Obesity, its Cause and Cure with Sample Menus; 12. Emaciation, its Cause and Cure with Sample Menus; 13. The Business Man - Right and Wrong Way of Living with Sample Menus; 14. Vieno System of Food Measurements - A New and Simple Method of Measuring Food Values; 15. Food and Morality; 16. Tea, Coffee, Liquor, Tobacco and Drugs - Scientific Reasons Why People Should Not Use Them; 17. Superacidity, Fermentation, Gastric Catarrh and Ulcer, Intestinal Gas and Auto-Intoxication - Causes and Results; 18. Superacidity, Fermentation, Gastric Catarrh and Ulcer, Intestinal Gas and Auto-Intoxication - The Remedy; 19. What to Eat and What to Omit for All Stomach and Intestinal Diseases - A Ready Reference Lesson; 20. Intestinal Congestion (Constipation), its Cause and Cure with Sample Menus for Four Seasons of the Year - Diarrhea; 21. Appendicitis, its Cause and the Remedy with Sample Menus; 22. Nervousness its Cause and Cure with Sample Menus; 23. Corrective Menus - Two for Each Season of the Year. Condition: The collection is in overall Very Good condition. Lesson I has a tiny tear to the outer edge of the back cover. Page 1 of Lesson IX has a tear at the outer edge. The pages are very lightly age-toned and clean with no writing or stains found. All covers and all pages are securely attached.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Little Lessons in Scientific Eating (23 booklets)
• Publisher: Corrective Eating Society, Inc.
• Publication Date: 1914
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good