The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-01-13
Risks Of Great Eaters.

Great eaters never live long. A vora-
clous appetite, 80 far from being q sign of
health, is certain indication of disease
Some dyspeptics are always hungry feel
best when they are eating, but as soon as
they have eaten, they endure torments so
distressing in their nature as to make the
unhappy sictim wish for death. The ap.
petite of health s that which inclines mod
erately TO eat, when eating time comes. and
which, when satisfied, leaves no unpleasant
reminders. Multitudes measure their health
by the amount they can eat aud of any
ten persons, nine are gratiied at an increase
OF weight; when, in reality, any excess Of
iatness is, IN proportion, decisive proof OF
existing disease showing that the absor-
bents OF the system are too weak TO dis
charge their duty ;rand the tendency TO
fatness, to obesity, increases, until existence
is a burthen, aud sudden death closes tho
history.
Particular inquiry will almost unvarying-
~ elicit the fact, that tat persons, however
rubicund and jolly, are never well, aud yet
they are envied. While great eaters never
live to all old age, and are never for sin.
gle day without some " symptom" some feel.
ing sufficiently disagreeable TO attract the
minds attention uupleasantly, small eaters,
those who eat regularly Of plain food usu-
ally have no "spare aesh," are wiry and en-
during, and live to an active old age. Re.
markable exemplifcations of these state.
ments are found in the lives OF centenari-
ans of past age. IIalen, one OF the most
distinguished among the ancients lived very
sparingly after the ageiof twenty-eight, and
died in his hundred and fortieth year. Ket.
vuho koc foA rik .1;o orC
worked hard all his life, reached hundred
and eighty-6ye years.
jenkins, poor Yorkshire fisherman who
lived on the cOarsest diet, was one hundred
and sixty-nine years old when he died.
Old Parr lived TO hundred and fifty-three; !;
his diet being milk, cheese, whey, small
beer and coarse bread. The fayorite diet
Of Henry Francisco, who lived to one hum
dred and forty, was tea, bread and butter,
and baked apples. Ephraim Pratt, Of
Shutesbury, Massachusetts, who died aged
one hundred and seventeen, lived chiefly on
milk, and even that in small quantities his
sou, Michael, by similar means, lived to be
one hundred and three years old. Father
Gull, Methodist clergyman, died last year
at the age of one hundred and Ave, tho
main diet of his life having been salted
swines flesh (bacOn) aud bread made OF In
dian meal. From these statements, nine
general readers out of ten will jump at the
conclusion that milk is healthy" as are
baked apples and bacon.
These conclusions do not legitimately
follow. The only inference that can be
safely drawn is from the only fact running
through oil these cases, that plain food and
a life Of steady labor tend to great age
AS to the healthfulness and lfe- -protracting
qualities Of any article OF diet named moth
ing can be inferred. for no two or them
lived on the same kind of food all that can
be nationally and safely said is either that
they lived SO long in spite Of the quality
Of the food they ate, or that their instincts
called for particular kind of food; and
the qualification Of that instinct, instead
of its perversion, with life Of steady la
Dor, directly caused heathfulness and great
length Of days. We must not expect to
live long by doing any one thing which an
old man did, and omit all others but by
doing all he did, and that is. work steadily
as we'll as eat mainly a particular disk.--
Halls Journal of Health.