— Mimi Sheraton, New York Well … maybe Fletcherism is a bit extreme.
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What would be the best way for business people to adopt Fletcherism?
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But after five years, he was having stomach troubles his doctor attributed to Fletcherism.
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The very large test of Fletcherism as a temperance expedient hereinbefore referred to was entirely accidental.
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Though his popularity waned in the nineteen-twenties — calorie counting became the new fad — scientists have recently revisited Fletcherism.
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The jury may still be out on Fletcherism, but the explanation for gendered chewing is likely a little more straightforward.
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Now we come to a phase of the merits of Fletcherism which has already furnished an abundance of evidence to its credit.
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Barnett, L. Margaret. Fletcherism: The Chew-Chew Fad of the Edwardian Era. In David Smith. (1997). Nutrition in Britain: Science, Scientists and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. pp. 6-28.
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110-111 He was a key figure of the American "Golden Age of Food Faddism".Murcott, Anne; Belasco, Warren, Jackson, Peter. (2013). The Handbook of Food Research. Bloomsbury. p. 400. Critics described Fletcherism as a "chew-chew cult".
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Fletcher, 25 The tests claim that Fletcher outperformed these Yale athletes in all events and that they were very impressed with his athletic ability at his old age. Fletcher attributed this to following his eating practices, and ultimately these tests, whether true or not, helped further endorse “Fletcherism” publicly.Fletcher, 27–31 Fletcher saw many similarities between humans and functioning machines. He posited several analogies between machines and the human body.
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He left home at sixteen and throughout his career worked as an artist, importer, manager of the New Orleans Opera House and writer. Fletcher suffered from dyspepsia and obesity in his later years, so devised a system of chewing food to maximize digestion. His mastication system became known as "Fletcherism". Fletcher and his followers recited and followed his instructions religiously, even claiming that liquids, too, had to be chewed in order to be properly mixed with saliva.
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Gardner was an uncompromising critic of fringe science. His book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952, revised 1957) launched the modern skeptical movement. It debunked dubious movements and theoriesThere's One Born Every Minute review by Ed Regis, The New York Times, June 4, 2000; "Martin Gardner's 1957 book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science is the classic put-down of pseudoscience. Nobody who read it will soon forget its stellar roll call of mid-20th-century cranks and crackpots" including Fletcherism, Lamarckism, food faddism, Dowsing Rods, Charles Fort, Rudolf Steiner, Dianetics, the Bates method for improving eyesight, Einstein deniers, the Flat Earth theory, the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria, Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision, the reincarnation of Bridey Murphy, Wilhelm Reich's orgone theory, the spontaneous generation of life, extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis, homeopathy, phrenology, palmistry, graphology, and numerology. This book and his subsequent efforts (Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, 1981; Order and Surprise, 1983, Gardner's Whys & Wherefores, 1989, etc.) provoked a lot of criticism from the advocates of alternative science and New Age philosophy;Friedel (2018): This book and his subsequent efforts earned him a wealth of detractors and antagonists in the fields of “fringe science” and New Age philosophy.
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