e only done so for short periods, may I suggest that some of
your correspondents or contributors live on an _entirely_ unfired
diet, _excluding dairy produce_, for a period of six or twelve
months and then relate their experiences. In this way some valuable
evidence would be obtained. At any rate I am prepared to do this
myself.

With reference to living on the unfired diet on 4d. a day, I have
often had two unfired meals for less than 4d., and two meals a day
are sufficient for anyone. Of course to do this one has to buy the
food which is in season and therefore cheap. Dried fruit and nuts,
followed by a cress salad with oil and lemon dressing, does not
cost more than 2d. An unfired rissole made from grated carrot and
flaked peanuts cost at most a penny, and if followed by dates or
figs would be a sufficient meal, and 2d. would cover the cost.

In conclusion, I have no difficulty in producing a "two course"
unfired meal for 2d.--but perhaps I should have left the subject of
cost for Dr Bell to deal with. Yours faithfully,

ALFRED LE HURAY.

MORE ABOUT TWO MEALS A DAY.

With reference to my article, "Two Meals a Day," which appeared in the
May issue of _The Healthy Life_, several correspondents have asked me
to give more particulars about my life and diet. I do so gladly; but I
must be brief, as the demand upon space in this magazine is now very
great.

Resolved into a single sentence, what all my correspondents wish to
know is this: Is a two-meal dietary best for all?

To this question, however, a definite answer cannot be given, for the
simple reason that scientific experimentation with respect to food
quantities and times of meals, etc., has gone such a little way, so
that it would be presumptuous to set a limit in regard to meals and
food reduction. To my mind, apart from the question of the quantity of
food to be taken, there is a great and important field of inquiry open
with respect to the effect of rest upon the stomach and the
intestines, upon the digestive and assimilative powers of the body.

Now the whole purpose of my article was to show that a reduction of
one's dietary was a matter of training, of gradual adaptation, but
also--and this is the important fact-of gradual strengthening. My
theory is that the two-meal plan is possible owing to the immense
economy in digestive energy that is effected through giving the
stomach adequate rest, a