Athletic Training

CHAPTER II DIET MosT persons have an entirely wrong con– ception of what diet means. To most people it conveys the idea that it is some special preparation of foods to be partaken of only by athletes in training or by sick people. I have always claimed, and my experience has borne it out, that the kind of dieting I recom– mend is the best · food not only to keep athletes in good condition, but to keep the average man and woman healthy. It is sim– ply the application of common sense to the food that we eat, the regulation of food for the stomach. And I wish to say at the beginning of this discussion that a healthy stomach is not only the surest guarantee of health that one can have, but it is 1ndispensable to success in athletics. And in the same proportion that a healthy stomach is necessary to success m 13