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Chapter nine of the Science of BeingWell by Wallace D. Waddles. This
LibriVox recording is in the public domainread by Daniel Sanchez. When to eat.
You cannot build and maintain a perfectlyhealthy body by mental action alone,
or by the performance of the unconsciousor involuntary functions alone. There are certain

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actions, more or less voluntary,which have a direct and immediate relation with
the continuance of life itself. Theseare eating, drinking, breathing, and
sleeping. No matter what man's thoughtor mental attitude may be, he cannot
live unless he eats, drinks,breathes, and sleeps. And moreover,

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he cannot be well if he eats, drinks, breathes, and sleeps in
an unnatural or wrong manner. Itis therefore, vitally important that you should
learn the right way to perform thesevoluntary functions. And I shall proceed to
show you this way, beginning withthe matter of eating, which is most
important. There has been a vastamount of controversy as to when to eat,

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what to eat, how to eat, and how much to eat.
And all this controversy is unnecessary,for the right way is very easy to
find. You have only to considerthe law which governs all attainment, whether
of health, wealth, power,or happiness. And that law is that

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you must do what you can donow where you are. Now, do
every separate act in the most perfectmanner possible, and put the power of
faith into every action. The processesof digestion and assimilation are under the supervision
and control of an inner division ofman's mentality, which is generally called the

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subconscious mind, and I shall usethat term here in order to be understood.
The subconscious mind is in charge ofall the functions and processes of life,
and when more food is needed bythe body, it makes the fact
known by causing a sensation called hunger. Whenever food is needed and can be
used, there is hunger, Andwhenever there is hunger, it is time

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to eat. When there is nohunger, it is unnatural and wrong to
eat, no matter how great mayappear to be the need for food,
even if you are in a conditionof apparent starvation with great emaciation. If
there is no hunger, you mayknow that food cannot be used, and
it will be unnatural and wrong foryou to eat, though you have not

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eaten for days, weeks, ormonths. If you have no hunger,
you may be perfectly sure that foodcannot be used, and will probably not
be used if taken. Whenever foodis needed, if there is power or
to digest and assimilate it so thatit can be normally used, the subconscious
mind will announce the fact by adecided hunger. Food taken when there is

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no hunger will sometimes be digested andassimilated, because nature makes a special effort
to perform the task which is thrustupon her against her will. But if
food be habitually taken when there isno hunger, the digestive power is at
last destroyed, and numberless evils caused. If the foregoing be true, and

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it is indisputably so, it isa self evident proposition that the natural time
and the healthy time to eat iswhen one is hungry, and that it
is never a natural or a healthyaction to eat when one is not hungry.
You see, then, that itis an easy matter to scientifically settle
the question when to eat. Alwayseat when you are hungry, and never

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eat when you are not hungry.This is obedience to nature, which is
obedience to God. We must notfail, however, to make clear the
distinction between hunger and appetite. Hungeris the call of the subconscious mind for
more material to be used in repairingand renewing the body and in keeping up

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the internal heat. And hunger isnever felt unless there is need for more
material, and unless there is powerto digest it. When taken into the
stomach. Appetite is a desire forthe gratification of sensation. The drunkard has
an appetite for liquor, but hecannot have a hunger for it. A

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normally fed person cannot have a hungerfor candy or sweets. The desire for
these things is an appetite. Youcannot hunger for tea, coffee, spiced
foods, or for the various tastetempting devices of the skilled cook. If
you desire these things, it iswith appetit tight not with hunger. Hunger

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is nature's call for material to beused in building new cells, and nature
never calls for anything which may notbe legitimately used for this purpose. Appetite
is often largely a matter of habit. If one eats or drinks at a
certain hour, and especially if onetakes sweetened or spiced and stimulating foods,

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the desire comes regularly at the samehour. But this habitual desire for food
should never be mistaken for hunger.Hunger does not appear at specified times.
It only comes when work or exercisehas destroyed sufficient tissue to make the taking
in of new raw material a necessity. For instance, if a person has

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been sufficiently fed on the preceding day, it is impossible that he should feel
a genuine hunger on arising from refreshingsleep. In sleep, the body is
recharged with vital power, and theassimilation of the food which has been taken
during the day is completed. Thesystem has no need for food immediately after

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sleep, unless the person went tohis rest in a state of starvation.
With a system of feeding which iseven a reasonable approach to a natural one,
no one can have a real hungerfor an early morning breakfast. There
is no such thing possible as anormal or genuine hunger immediately after arising from

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sound sleep. The early morning breakfastis always taken to gratify appetite, never
to satisfy hunger, no matter whoyou are or what your condition is,
no matter how hard you work orhow much you are exposed, Unless you
go to your bed starved, youcannot arise from your bed hungry. Hunger

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is not caused by sleep, butby work, and it does not matter
who you are, or what yourcan or how hard or easy your work.
The so called no breakfast plan isthe right plan for you. It
is the right plan for everybody,because it is based on the universal law
that hunger never comes until it isearned. I am aware that a protest

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against this will come from the largenumber of people who enjoy their breakfasts,
whose breakfast is their best meal,who believe that their work is so hard
that they cannot get through the forenoonon an empty stomach, and so on,
But all their arguments fall down beforethe facts. They enjoy their breakfast

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as the Toper enjoys his mourning dram, because it gratifies a habitual appetite,
and not because it supplies a naturalwant. It is their best meal for
the same reason that his morning dramis the Toper's best drink. And they
can get along without it because millionsof people of every trade and profession do

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get along without it, and arevastly better for doing so. If you
are to live according to the scienceof being well, you must never eat
until you have an earned hunger.But if I do not eat on a
rising in the morning, when shallI take my first meal? In ninety
nine cases out of one hundred,twelve o'clock, noon is early enough,

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and it is generally the most convenienttime. If you are doing heavy work,
you will get by noon a hungersufficient to justify a good sized meal.
And if your work is light,you will probably still have hunger enough
for a moderate meal. The bestgeneral rule or law that can be laid

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down is that you should eat yourfirst meal of the day at noon if
you are hungry, And if youare not hungry, wait until you become
so. And when shall I eatmy second meal? Not at all unless
you are hungry for it, andthat with a genuine earned hunger. If

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you do get hungry for a secondmeal, eat at the most convenient time,
but do not eat until you havea really earned hunger. The reader
who wishes to fully inform himself asto the reasons for this way of arranging
the meal times will find the bestbooks thereon cited in the preface to this
work. From the foregoing, however, you can easily see that the science

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of being well readily answers the questionwhen and how often shall I eat.
The answer is eat when you havean earned hunger, and never eat at
any other time. End of chapternine