Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg

5. In place of such articles as have been condemned, eat fruits, grains,

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and vegetables. There is a rich variety of these kinds of food, and they are wholesome and unstimulating. Graham flour, oatmeal, and ripe fruit are the indispensables of a dietary for those who are suffering from sexual excesses. Further remarks upon diet, with a few useful recipes for preparing healthful food, will be found in works devoted to the subject of diet.[54] The patient must carefully comply with all the rules of a healthy diet if he would be sure of recovery. [Footnote 54: See "Healthful Cookery," _Good Health_ Publishing Company, Battle Creek, Mich.] Sleeping.--It is from accidents which happen during sleep that the great majority of sufferers complain; hence there is no little importance attaching to this subject. The following suggestions present in a very brief manner some of the more practical ideas connected with this part of the subject:--