The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition

Horace Fletcher (1849–1919), often referred to as 'The Great Masticator', carved a unique niche in the early 20th-century health and diet movement with his emphasis on thorough mastication of food. Fletcher's philosophy was encapsulated in his text 'The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition' (1903), an exploration of his system of 'Fletcherism', which advocated for chewing food to a liquid state to ensure ...