Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1852-01-24
PHILOSOPHY OF EATING.

Use but two or three kinds of food besides bread
and butter, at single meal, and never eat any
thing between meals You should eat at regular
hours, and but three times day, with two inter
walls of not less than five hours each, nor more tnan
six.
| Cold water retards digestion and so does any
! LIQUID if much is taken in during or soon after
meal half a glass at meal is enough. From an
hour and half after meal, until within hall an
! hour of the next one, you may drink as much wa
ter as you desire; it is BEST however, but swallow
or two at time, with an interval of halt minute
J or more otherwise, you may take more than ma
ture requires before you know it, just as IN eating
fast. If too much fluid is taken during meals, 1t
dilutes the gastric juice thus weakening its powers
of Digestion and retaining the food longer IN the
stomach than is natural it also causes an ACID sto-
mach, heartburn, funess, belchings and bad blood,
producing, according to circumstances, dryness,
or rawness, sensation in the throat, like lndl-
gestion from other causes, whether from quahty or
quantity of food.
All errors as to diet arise from quantity or quail
ity and propose one safe rule to each applicable
to all persons, and under all circumstances.
As to quality, the general rule is to eat that
which YOU like best, and which you find by close
observation and experience is followed by no I'M
comfortable feeling about the head, hands, feet nor
| stomach -.
| As to quantity, take as much at one meal as will
allow you to become decldedly hungry Dy Ine HeAt
meal this can only be determined by consecutive
observations; but remember, never swallow an atom
! of food unless you are hungry; never force par
tcle of food on YOURSELF the brute creation cannot
be induced to eat nor drink, if slightly i'll or excl
ted, guided only by their poor blind instincts; and
we, who are much higher than they, by the rea-
son that is within u.s. ought to feel ashamed to act
less wisely and yet, nine tenths OF all our ailments
acute and chronic, enter here; and nine tenths Of
them might be cured thus, if taken in reasonable
time, and If properly persevered in.
The finer all food is cut with knife, before put
into the mouth the and easier it is digested
on the same principle that large piece of ice pla
ced in a vessel set in water will require longer
time to melt than if it were first divided into ma
nv small pieces. The gastric juice dissolves solid
food from without inwards; hence food, especially
all kinds of meat, should be cut up in pieces not
larger than pea, before it is placed in the mouth
taking in as many pieces at time as is convenient
This precaution would not be neea ed were persons
to eat slowly, and masticate their food properly
but our national habits are otherwise, nor is there
much hope of speedy change in this respect.
For an hour after dinner, and half the time fol
other meals do not lie down, do not sit to sew, mol
maintain any STOPPING position; do not ride OF
horseback nor study, strain, lift, nor perform any
labor, bodily nor mental; a leisure stroll in the
require no mental effort. While walking, keel
your hand behind you, and your chin above
a horizontal line, and endeavor to feel in gooC
and hecrful humor with yourself and all the world
! DR.. Hall.