| Horace Fletcher |
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| 1849 births | |
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| 1919 deaths | |
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Fletcher and his followers recited and followed his instructions religiously, even claiming that liquids, too, had to be chewed in order to be properly mixed with Saliva . Fletcher promised that "Fletcherizing," as it became known, would turn "a pitiable glutton into an intelligent epicurean." Fletcher also advised against eating before being "Good and Hungry", or while angry or sad. He promoted his theories for decades on Lecture Circuit s, and became a millionaire. Upton Sinclair and John D. Rockefeller were among those who gave the fad a try. Along with "Fletcherizing", Fletcher and his supporters advocated a low-protein diet as a means to health and well-being. But by 1919, when Fletcher, 68, died of a heart attack, his diet plan was already being replaced by the next approach to dieting championed by Irving Fisher and Eugene Lyman Fisk: counting calories. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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