“Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate” was one of the catchy slogans invented by Horace Fletcher, a self-styled dietician who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, convinced thousands of people to chew each mouthful of food thirty-two times, a number partly determined by most people having thirty-two teeth. This was not Fletcher’s only contribution to nutrition, but it is the one that became attached to his name: fletcherize appeared in 1903 as a verb meaning to chew thoroughly. Fletcher’s surname, incidentally, means arrow-maker, a job presumably held by one of his ancestors.<\/p>\n
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“Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate” was one of the catchy slogans invented by Horace Fletcher, a self-styled dietician who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, convinced thousands of people to chew each mouthful of food thirty-two times, a number partly determined by most people having thirty-two teeth. This was not Fletcher’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f"],"yoast_head":"\n