Formerly titled The New Science of Living and Healing, Health Through New Thought and Fasting contends that it takes a great deal of argument to make the average man and woman understand that strength is renewed in sleep and that they grow weaker, not stronger by eating. He believes it is the brain that needs to be recharged and that the reader would do well to find out the smallest quantity of food upon which they can live and work without losing weight and live on it.