According to my desktop calendar, today is the birthday of Sylvester Graham, who lived from 1795-1851. He was a Kellogg-like fellow who promoted an abstemious lifestyle which rejected "sexual excess" and laziness, and encouraged cold baths, chastity, and a vegetarian diet. He stated that Languor, lassitude, feebleness of circulation, loss of appetite, indigestion, chilliness, headache, melancholy, epilepsy, weakness of the brain, loss of memory, and early death of offspring, along with about 30 other ailments were caused by sexual excesses between husband and wife.
In honor of this luminary and his special day, I am going to go home, take a cold bath, abstain from any "excess", and eat a dinner of his most notable contribution to society- the Graham Cracker. No doubt I'll wake up fit as a fiddle- so if you see me kicking up my heels, and think "He's Got Moxie!" That's probably why.
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