Horace Fletcher
Born: 1849
Died: July 14, 1919 (aged 70)
Bio: Horace Fletcher was an American health food enthusiast of the Victorian era who earned the nickname "The Great Masticator", by arguing that food should be chewed about 100 times per minute before being swallowed: "Nature will castigate those who don't masticate".
Known for:
- Fletcherism, what it is (1913)
- The new glutton or epicure (1903)
- Menticulture (1895)
- A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition (1903)
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