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What is Fletcherism?

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Noun
  1. (historical) A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry.
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Though his popularity waned in the nineteen-twenties — calorie counting became the new fad — scientists have recently revisited Fletcherism.
The jury may still be out on Fletcherism, but the explanation for gendered chewing is likely a little more straightforward.
The very large test of Fletcherism as a temperance expedient hereinbefore referred to was entirely accidental.
Now we come to a phase of the merits of Fletcherism which has already furnished an abundance of evidence to its credit.
— Mimi Sheraton, New York Well … maybe Fletcherism is a bit extreme.
But after five years, he was having stomach troubles his doctor attributed to Fletcherism.

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