Fletcherism
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I had contacted Stocks to see if it might be possible to engage the Model Gut for a test of Fletcherism.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
In 1979, a pair of Minneapolis researchers put Fletcherism to the test.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2013
Fletcherism, as it was called, promoted chewing a mouthful of food until all "goodness" was extracted, then spitting out the fibrous material that was left.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2013
The only beneficial effect he found in Fletcherism was a marked increase in his ability to solve chess problems.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is growing throughout the land to-day a conviction—which has its core of truth—that many people eat too much meat; and not a few see a remedy in vegetarianism and Fletcherism.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
