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Where wrong habits of diet have been indulged, there should be no delay in reform. When dyspepsia has resulted from abuse of the stomach, efforts should be made carefully to preserve the remaining strength of the vital forces by removing every overtaxing burden. The stomach may never entirely recover health after long abuse; but a proper course of diet will save further debility, and many will recover more or less fully. It is not easy to prescribe rules that will meet every case; but, with attention to right principles in eating, great reforms may be made, and the cook need not be continually toiling to tempt the appetite.

Prompt reform of wrong dietary habits can halt further debility and allow dyspeptic stomachs to partially or fully recover. Contains empirical assertions about recovery from dyspepsia and dietary reform.

Abstemiousness in diet is rewarded with mental and moral vigor; it also aids in the control of the passions. Overeating is especially harmful to those who are sluggish in temperament; these should eat sparingly and take plenty of physical exercise. There are men and women of excellent natural ability who do not accomplish half what they might if they would exercise self-control in the denial of appetite.

Abstemiousness in diet promotes mental and moral vigor and aids in passion control, while overeating especially harms sluggish temperaments. Makes explicit claims regarding dietary moderation, mental vigor, emotional control, and temperament.