The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-07-25
Health and Diet.

In one Of his admirable articles on health
how to preserve and enjoy it-Dr. W. W. Hall,
in his Journal If Hath has the following. His
remarks were written for csole. climates, but
are still applicable in the main 70 ours
Food is the fuel which keeps the body warm
hence, If a. much Is eaten in the spring a. IN the
winter, We are kept too warm We burn up with
fever We are oppressed We suffer from lasSltUde.
All nature takes j. new lease of lite with spring
but man. Ii Is because be alone i unwise. The
brute beasts, the COW. the horse. the OK these
turn 10 a new diet and 90 Out 10 grass. 10 crop
every green thing they would never come 10 the
stable OF b~arnydrd Of choice 10 Eat the heating.
binding oats and corn on which they luxuri-
ated during the winter, they eat watery food
which Is light and purifying. Not 50 with man
he continues ms meats and fats. his gTeases and
his grayies, u al Christmas. Watchful nature
takes away his appetite for these and because he
does not relish them as he did Il few weeks
before. he begins 70 conclude that something Is
the matter, and measuring the amount of his
health by the amount he can send down MS throat,
ne begins 70 stimulate the appetite, thinks he
must use tonic, readily assents to any suggestion
which includes bitters and whisky. specially the
latter IN addition be puts more mustard. and
pepper, and catsup on his meats. seasons every
thing more heavily, until nature has been goaded
30 that she Will bear 10 more, and yields To the
fatal dysentery or bilious collie, or happily relieves
herself by Il cOplOus diarrhea. Does not every
reader know that fever and hux, and diarrhea
are common ails Of spring? But you did not
know one OF the two chief causes, mans gluttO-
ny, as above described Tens Of thousands Of
lives would be saved every spring, and an meal
culable amount Of human discomfort would DE
prevented if early in March, or ut most by the
first Of April, meat and grease and fried food of
every description were banished from the table
wholly, at least for breakfast and supper. II
meat will be eaten for dinner. let it be lean
use 'samp' largely, have no fries. eat but little
butter use eggs, celery, spinach, vinegar: keep
the body clean, spend every hour possible in the
open air, snufiliug in the spring. But by every
consideration Of wisdom and of health, have a
good fire to come to and sit by with all your gar
ments on, for eight or ten minutes after all forms
of exercise otherwise You Will wake up next
morning Us stiff as = bean-pOlc and as sore as if
you had been pounded in a bag, 10 the effect of
your exercise having done YOU more hurt than
good, and concluding that work don't agree with
you however beneficial it may be u others, you
take no more for weeks and months. Man is
the biggest mule that ever was created. For the
sake of giving some general idea rs 10 how much
persons should eat in the spring par
ticularly those who are most of the time in
doors, it may be- well to name the bill uf fare.
At breakfast, take q single cup Of weak coffee or
some cold bread and butter, with one or two
soft boiled eggs, and nothing else. Twice u
week Il bit of ham or salt-fsh may he used in
place of the eggs, but then no meat should be
eaten for dinner that day. II there is no appe-
titc for eggs OF the salt-meat. il is because ma
needs nothing more than the bread and but
ter and the drink, and nature is wise. When
there is not much inclination TO eat, Il baked or
roasted potato. with a little salt and butter, is Il
good substitute for an egg or piece of ham
for these again are found in a roasted
apple or in s:ewed fruit or cranberrv-sauce.-
Dinner, half Il glass of cold water, cold bread
and butter, and pieces of lean meat, of any sort,
with baked or roasted potatoes, or some other
as dessert, stewed fruits or berries of
any sort, and nothing else. Supper, a single
,up of w-;.k tea, some cold stale bread and but
and nothing else whatever any RELISH as
L is called. whether in the shape of Il bit of dried
beef, or cold ham, or sauce, or preserves, or
cake, Is nothing less than an absolute curse.
This Is strong language; hut such things do
millions of persons restless nights, uncOIH-
ortable awakenings, and succeeding DAYS of un-
SellneSs in every degree, from simple fdgets To
,nnui, ill-nature, fretfulnesS, and the whole
of little. mean, low fruits of charac-
such as snappishneSs, flult-fnding, queru-
BUSINESS, glooms, and the like this is because
nature does not need iOI supper, does not call for
t and a plain tea-table, with nothing but bread
mi butter on it, repels Us the moment we enter
he room. The next thing is TO have something
which has more taste in il. which relishes; : in
words, which temptS nature to take what
he would not otherwise have done and when
inveigled into the stomach. ii must be got
id of: but no preparation has been made for it;
t Is as unwelcome as the appearance OF a friend
t dinner on washing day. The result is. that
What has been eaten is imrerfectly digested, Il
,ad blood Is made of it, and, this being mixed
the good blood of the system. renders the
,hole mass OF blood in the body imperfect and
impure; and as the blood goes to every part of
he system. there is not a square inch of il that
: not ready for disease of some sort. those parts
'eing most liable t. attack which had suffered
,revious injury of any kind those who have
weak brains, for example, become = softer still,
the charitable name of : nervousness"