“I think it is healthier to eat more slowly and less, and to eat more often. But I want to make the most of appetite and hunger; I would take no pleasure in dragging out three or four puny meals a day, regulated as if I were taking medicine…Let us leave the daily diets to…

“Health for me is maintaining my accustomed state without disturbance…I cannot be hurt by the use of things that I have been so long accustomed to.” III.13 Of experience (p.1008)