How to Eat (Classic Reprint): A Cure for "Nerves"

by Thomas C. Hinkle

Excerpt from How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves"

Any discourse is valuable which incites a man having a marked tendency to depressing, morbid ideas, to rid himself of them. Dr. Hinkle helps the sufferer to gain that confidence and cheer which result from knowledge of certain immunity from dreaded ills and positive assurance of recovery by mere regulation of food or employment along the lines of simple, everyday living.

But that alone Is not sufficient. It Is made quite clear that no one thing by itself will Insure a cure of nerves.' The cure must come through com mon sense exerted along several related avenues of endeavor. N o matter how steadfastly one may adhere to directions as to abstaining from harmful food and injurious methods of partaking of those foods which are beneficial, if he spends the larger portion of his time idly rocking in a convenient arm chair, exerting neither body nor mind nor will, that which might be gained by proper nutrition is largely nullified by lack of physical exercise and mental activity.

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Genres: Health

134 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2007

About the author

Thomas Clark Hinkle, (June 12, 1876 – May 13, 1949) was an American novelist.

Reviews

[Zachary Siegel]

I picked this one up with the intent to briefly amuse myself by the ramblings of a charlatan. The book was pretty much what I expected it to be.

For anyone interested in the advice given, Hinkle makes these concrete recommendations as a surefire cure for a persons nervous breakdown, whether a person is already suffering from such an attack of nerves or simply as a preventative:

1. Do not eat too much. Eat sparingly.
2. Chew all your food "to a cream".
3. Do not eat eggs.
4. Do not eat boiled cabbage.
5. If you are having a nervous breakdown, do not strain yourself with physical exercise.
6. All people should spend three hours outside per day.

This is all my memory serves to me, but I do think this is all the author served as well.

[Diane]

Hard to read, felt like reading a book written 100 years ago.

[Danielle]

Always on the lookout for Fletcherizing support! I’m glad I found this and appreciate the perspective it provides of those suffering from nerves at the time of writing.

[Hyeyoung]

I discovered a community providing the information Ebooks version. How To eat was here too! http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/p... Able to read this book again on my mobile phone, of course on PC. People concern what food is good for health. However, this book let me know how many people are suffering from eating disorder caused by damage of "nerves". It's tragic...

[Sherry]

Unfortunately as time and our knowledge of proper diet improves, poor Mr. Hinkle's book is slowly being proven wrong. Not to mention it is an extremely difficult read due to the fact the author seems to think he is a new testament prophet.

[Avis Black]

A cultural oddity, and maybe mildly interesting to some, but not to me.