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Food Fear
Philadelphia Press
"There is a new disease," said a bright woman yesterday, as several of us sat over the teacups. "The scientific name of the malady is a big mouthful, of course. But in simple Anglo-Saxon it is just the 'fear of food' or 'food fear.' "
It sounds like a paragraph from one of Frank Stockton's delightful nonsense stories,—but it isn't. It is a sober, serious problem and doctors are diagnosing it as such. If you doubt the existence of this fear go into some high-grade grocer shop and ask to see the health foods. You will be astounded. The list of these would take up columns in a newspaper. New ones are coming to market every year. Healthy men and women are calling for "predigested nutrition" and "sanitary foods." Hundreds of otherwise reasoning and reasonable people sit down to a table in doubt and leave it in dread. Dyspeptic food faddists are responsible for the malady. Food fear is said to be a direct result of the mania for diet questions which has been raging over the country during the past few years.

October 5, 1899 issue
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The First American Printing-Press
BY ERNEST INGERSOLL
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Wanted—A Benevolent Germ
with contributions from C.
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"The Spinning-Wheel at Rest"
with contributions from Lee, Shepard, Edward A. Jenks
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Regarding Science and Health
Editor
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Mr. Tomlinson Relieved
Editor
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A Statement of Facts
Editor
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Euthanasia
Editor
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Our Leader
Editor with contributions from Livingston Mims, Alfred Farlow, Wm. P. McKenzie
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The Lectures
with contributions from Eva A. Loomis, Ruth Lanham, George N. Beels, Frank H. Mott
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Spurious Literature
BY ANDREA H. PROUDFOOT
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Familiar Texts Explained
BY L. H. JONES
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A Voice from Nova Scotia
BY C. A. MCLEOD
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Development
C.
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A Japanese Legend
BY IDA REED SMITH
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Questions and Answers
L. C. R.
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Omnipotence
B. A. Miller with contributions from Ruskin
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Notices
with contributions from William B. Johnson