The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1863-06-13
Eating Habits.

The most common way to a premature
grave and one Of the shortest cuts to that
destination, is down mans throat
There is multitude which no man can
number, daily eating immoderately, thus
sapping the constitution and laying the
foundation for innumerabIe ills and q too
early grave. The wise man does it, and
the fool the virtuous and the abandoned
the kind and the cross, of all climes, are
among the erroris.s Bet there are some
who are wise as to this point and the
number are increasing; the number Of
those who are men and women of force
who think for themselves, observe for
themselves who have vigor OF intellect
enough to compare causes and effects, an
tecedents and consequents. There is con
sfantly coming to US the knowledge Of
mothers who, by the teachings OF this
Journal have been led to regulate their
households nationally, and are reapng a
rich reward in the shape Of health for
themselves. and what is dearer still, in
creasing health for their children.
Thr first point in the philosophy of eat
ing il to perform that very necessary busl-
ness with the greatest regularity. A
young Scotch trapper, Thomas Glendy,
told US thirty years ago. that the Indians,
with whom he had been hunting. ate bu!
once day and that was early in the even
ing that then, a single Individual would
consume several pounds of meat, smoke
his pipe lie down to sleep. get up by the
dawn, hunt all day, eating nothing until
the nj ght again. An old beau Of Wash
ington city took it into his head that eat
ing was trouble, and that he would per-
form that process but once day. Oa oc-
casions Of his being invited out in the even
ing, he felt compelled 10 take something
although he had eaten his regular dinner;
but then he would ent nothing all next
day. These irregularities were very rare
he died when nearly eighty years fage, n
sprightly and gallant old Lcau to the last
On the other hand, persons who arc
regularly irregular seem to live = good
while. Captain Hall lately stated to the
Historical Society, IN tits city, the ca sc OF
some ESquimaux, who being carried 10 sea
on cake Of ice, ate absolutely nothing for
thirty days, when each man swallowed
abou, thirty pounds of meat and oil, ana
bursted up nor died. Put observation has
shown that both as to man and beat
regularity in the hours of eating is indis-
pcn.able to heAlthful, thriving condition.
Mos; articles Of food require several hours
out of the stomach and if new supply OF
food is introduced before this process of
digestion, conversion, is completed, the
former food is not p'S-cd out until the lat
ter las been brought: t. IT'S own condition;
the result Of III briug ke.a warm so long
is that it begins IN decay, gas is generated
and the whole mass is corrupted. Those
who eat often, who eat h-;ween meals. al
WAYS have wind on tie aiOmach and other
places; but # 1t cannot escape, II cause. n
feeling OF wright or oppression and this is
dyspepsia, that horrid hag which has
thousand aiis in her train. Half the
-irls have dyspepsia before they are sev>
cnteen, in consequence of their everlast-
ing nibbiing at everything eatahl- in the
house. The most natural and heulthful
times for eating would seen, TO ne AZ day
light. noon ard sunGown; the last meal
being very light inieei.-NlH: JcurHal
OF Health