Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-06-11
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From Hairs Journal Of IFealth.
Eaiins and Drinking


Tie wisdom aud goodness u efod, than IS
fonnd ii the mechanism Of the human
bo,le. AHA the means employed for its
growth, its renovation, its preservation,
and its well being. All motion involves
friction and friction necessitates waste and
loss. We can not walk a step, nor bend
4 fages, nor wink tie eye, nor think a
thought. without there being less amount
Of solid matter belonging 70 the body, as
part If its fiying substance, than there was
before tie process commenced; and unless
the "weav and tear is supplied, exhaustion
inevitablv.iolIows. It is no trouble 70 I'M
serstafid tli4t, liz a man works hard for sew I
eral hours, he fesls weak and tired and
then good, hearty meal maryelously re-
moves tie debility. Only hard students
know iii II Low great i the exhaustion Of
the entifs nlan, from eight ten, or a dozen
hours q intense thought, without any
phys.ea, exercise whatever. a good din
ner, with an entire a.abandon" Of thought,
fepovatss both mind aid body. This Is
clear proof that thought produces waste,
as well as a physical exertion; il alsoshows
the falMcY, the mischievous fallacy, Of
certain class 81 PERSONS who, have forced
themselves On tie public as their teachers,
that students do not require as substantial
food as do common woikmen. Ii great
thinkers a0 not eat and III ist substantial
beef and breed, they wi oon cease to
shine as lights in the n. Of mind
There Is not q consistent vegetarian that
lives, whose nanlss and work, and memory,
for all that IS trul &good, viii moi rapidly
rot, as certainly a8 did Jonalfs goard.
If a man wosks OF thinks hard for i day,
without eating ordrnking, be win weigh,
1T nieIs, from two to five pounds less than
ne did twenty four hours earlier. This
waste is supplied by food and drink; the
most considerable, ID bulk and weight
being the latter A man cats and drinks
,ei ram. pSeasons; to supply waste and keep
arm. Hence The more waste there
i. tic more we work OF think, tie more
must Vie eat and drink. In the hottest
summer, Il; the treeless desert, the heat Of
the body IS ninety-eight degrees; on the
top Of an iceberg, III the Arctic sea, It is
no colder, it is no warmer--it is just the
same. The temperature Of the body then
being the same, in health under all circum-
stances, the amount Of heat t6be supplied,
the food'to be eaten, i ust be variable; at
the same time, it should DO proportioned
to the amount Of heat needed-just as we
make a larger or a smaller fire Ii cur dwell
iings, to meet the temperature without -
The man who would order the same
amount Of fuel 10 he consumed every day
from November to May, would be consid-
cred daft. The man who eats as much to-
day as he did yesterday, although il is
thirty degrees warmer, is quite an un-
wise. Brit there are greater fools than he;
and they ara those who as the weather be-
slle warm, eud finding they have not as
seen an appetitn fof Sod as ID the winter,
BEEN 10 think that something is tho mat
ter with them that they are about to get
sick; and to prevent II, begin to ''take
something to whet tie appetite in the
shape Of tones, bitters, whisky, gin ETC.
For wise aud benign purposes, i was not
left to mans wisdom seeing that few IN
deed have any in this fegard--to daily al
ter the amount Of food and drink taken,
according to the variability of the weather
and the work done; but instead are APP
pointed various Instincts, and appetites,
selfoperating AID beyond our control
In the first place, the appetite declines rs
the weather becomes warmer; and second
", it seeks for articles OF different quail
ty. In Winter, we love meats and fats,
and starches and oily substances, and sweet
merts Of every description, because from
half to four iiths 81 these articles are heat
producing, arc fuel for the furnace Of life.
We not oniYeat them, but have an appe-
lite for large quantities Of them. When
summer comes, We not only can partake OF
them freely-we crave other things; we
want sweets no longer; but are eager for
the acid berries and fruits, aud tomatoes,
and melons. We no longer want heating,
solid food, bu! the cooling watery veg,tl-
bic. Sugar and sage, and arrow-root and
corn-starch, and fresh meats. have from.
thirty to forty per cent. Of solid, heat pro-
ducing substances; While fats, suets, oils,
and beans aud rice, have neatly three
times as much. But turning to the yege-
table, and salids, and greens, and fruits,
and berries. and melons, Of spring and
summer and autumn, which We 50 eager
III crave, aud iii whose consumption we
luxuriate, there is 4 marked ditference.-
Beans have eithty eight Ier centsoi solid
substance, while oil the potato seventy
four psrts are water, and out Of one hum
bred pounds Of berries, ninety nine pounds
are water-not one single pound 81 solid
heatprodrciug substance The maihe-
NAUTICAL proportions beng for peaches nine
tenths Of one per cent; cherries, SIX nths
of one per cent. goosberyies, and stray
berries, about one per cent; and all this
IS simply because the human body does
not require fire to warm it in summer;
but water to cool--water to supply the
material for Precipitation, and eyapora-
ton.
Such d large part ii the food which We
crave in summer being water, these togeth-
er with The common beverages Of coffee
and tea, taken at breakfast and supper,
supply as much water for tie system rs 4
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