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  • Then at the turn of 20th century a man named Horace Fletcher suggested dieters "Fletcherize," or liquify, their food by chewing 100 times per minute and then spitting out any solid remains.

    World's Weirdest Diets 2010

  • Kellogg, of the cereal fame, was a nutrition and health nut who ran a sanitarium in Michigan, where he encouraged his visitors to "Fletcherize" with a little song he wrote called "Chew Chew."

    A Brief History of Dubious Dieting 2009

  • Eat slowly, Fletcherize each mouthful, it will reduce you, give you a new taste of flavors not known to the glutton.

    Supreme Personality Delmer Eugene Croft

  • She ate half a sack of carrots, and knowing full well that she was eating forbidden fruit, she bolted them, and for her failure to Fletcherize -- but speaking of

    The Valley of the Giants 1918

  • At first people who Fletcherize or chew their food perfectly, usually lose weight.

    How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" 1912

  • Fletcherize for a time and then say there is nothing to that because it does not cure them.

    How to Eat A Cure for "Nerves" 1912

  • Even the Cigarette was Taboo among these Good People, although Father could Fletcherize about 10 cents 'worth of Licorice Plug each working

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Even the Cigarette was Taboo among these Good People, although Father could Fletcherize about 10 cents 'worth of Licorice Plug each working

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • He and Mamma stayed here a few days on their way to Turkey, and you would have died laughing if you had seen Mrs. Pace try to make Papa 'Fletcherize.'

    Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895

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