Fletcherism

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Together, he and Chittenden did their best to convince Hoover to make Fletcherism part of U.S. economic policy, thereby justifying a two-thirds reduction in the amount of civilian rations shipped overseas.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2013

In the United States and Europe, administrators at workhouses, prisons, and schools flirted with Fletcherism.

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

One still sees the last adherents to Fletcherism, nervous and deliberate oldsters, attacking their soft boiled eggs with sly and dreary routine.

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