Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty

"Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty" by Horace Fletcher is a book about how to get healthy through better eating habits. The book is the author’s own story of going from being unhealthy in his forties to feeling young again at age sixty by changing how he ate. Fletcher shares his ideas about chewing food completely to help digestion and improve overall health. He talks about his health problems when he was forty, including being overweight and often sick, and how this made him want to find a better way to eat. He tells about being turned down for life insurance and realizing he needed to fix his eating habits. Drawing from different ideas about food and digestion, Fletcher introduces his Five Principles, which include only eating when truly hungry, choosing foods that you really want to eat, truly enjoying it, thoroughly chewing it, and trusting your body to know what it needs. His account shows how paying attention while eating can lead to better help and longer life.