I gave a couple of days of intensive meditation to the subject, and then I reached this conclusion: I would read a few standard and orthodox works on dietetics, and, so doing, try to arrive at least at a superficial knowledge of the matter.

Also, I would balance what one recognized authority said as against what another recognized authority said, and then, before going to a specialist, I would do a little personal experimenting with my diet and mark the effects.
I arrived at this decision privately, taking no one into my confidence.
And without an intent to deprive any hard-worked specialist of a prospective fee, I shall ever continue to believe that the second part of the course I chose to follow was a wise one.

It might not serve my brother-in-obesity, but it served me well.

I'm sure of that.
But the first part of the system naturally came first.

This had to do with research work among the best authorities.