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

Great eaters never live long. A vonn-
cious appetite. 30 far from being q sigu Of
health, is u certain indication OF disease
some dyspcptics are always hungry; feoI
best wlcE they arc eating, but as soon as
ihcy have catru. they enduro to,.nents 80
distressing IN their nature ~ TO make the
unhappy victim wish for death. The ap.
petite OF health Is that which inciines mod.
rraiely 10 eat. whrn eating time comes, aud
ahlch. when Satisfied. leaves ne unpleasant
r"mlndrFs. Muliiiudes measure their health
10y the amount they can eat aud of aby
ten persons, nine are gratifcd nt an Increase
II weight, when. Ia reality. any eAce., "
ia'n'ss Is. in proportion. dccsiv. proof of
"Atsllng disease; showing that the hb>0r.
bcnis Of the system str too weak 10 dis.
charge their duty ;sGnd the tendency 10
htnrss. 90 Obesity, inc, leases. until ~ istuncs
Is u burthcn, aud sudden death closes tho
history
Particular inquiry will almost uuvArying.
" elicit the fact, that Eat persons. however
ihbicund aud jolly, arc never well. aud Vet
they are cnyird. While great eaters never
livc TO al old age. aud ars never for - sin.
gle DAY without some symptom. some feel.
ihg sufficiently dissgrrcable TO Attrac, tho
minds attention uuplcaSaEily. small caters.
ally have no spar. flesh" are wiry and en-.
during. and live to an active old age. Re.
matkable e1emplihcations OF these state.
ments are found in the lives Of centenafi.
ans OF past age. GAlsn. One Of tho most
distinguished among the ancients lived very
sparingly after the uge;of twcnty.eight. aud
died in h., hundred aud forticih year. kel.
igrcn, who never tasted spirits or wine, and
worked hard oil his life, reached hundred
and eighty-fy, years.
jenkins. poor Yorkshire fisherman Who
lived on the cOarscst diet, was one hundred
aud sixiy.nine years old whcn ne died.
Old Parr lived TO 4 hundred and ifty.ihrec;
his diet being milk. cheese, whey, small
beer and coarse bread. The fayOritc diet
oi Henry Francisco. who lived 10 one hun.
dred and forty, was tea. bread aud bu;tor
aud baked apples. Ephruim Pratt. Of
Shuiesbury. Massachusetts. who died aged
one hundred and seventeen, lived chiefly on
milk. aud even that in small quantities his
sou, Michael. by similar means, lived "a be
one hundred aud three years old Father
Gull. u Methodist clergyman, died Las, year
~ the agr of one hundred and Gye, the
main diet oi his life having been salted
swincs flesh iba on aud bread mad. of 10.
dian meal. From these statements. nine
general readers out of ten viii jump at the
conclusion that milk il healthy. u arc
baked apples aud bacon
These tonclusions DO no, legliimateiy
follow. The only infcfeBc" that can be-
safely drawn il from the only fact running
through nll 'hese case-. ihs, plain food and
life OF steady labor tend to grea; nge.-
As 10 III" heal,hlulness sad lie experimenting
qualities Of any article o; diet Lamc,l. moth.
ing eau DO Inferred. for no two Of them
| lived on the same kind Of food ull that can
be nationally aud safely said l. either that
they lived so long 10 spite OF the quality
OF the food they ate. or that their instincts
called for particular kind OF food aud
the qualification Of that instinct. instead
OF its perversi0n. with life of steady Ia.
bor. directly caused healthfuness aud great
length O( days W. must not expect 30
live long by doing any one thing wbirh AZ
old mau did and oml, all others but by
| doing all he did. and that is. work steadily
as we'll as eat mainly a particular dish -
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