Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-02-02
VOLUME 80 NO 5.
DIETING.


lis usually considered to mean the same
thing as a kind of starvation. The idea
which the educated physician attaches to the
term, is a judicious regulation of the auan-
tlty and quality of the food, according to
the circumstances of each case. A healthy
manmay diet himselfin order to keep well;
an invalid may diet himself with view to
the recovery of his health yet the things ca
ten by the two will widely differ in their
nature, bulk, and mode of preparation. A
vast multitude are suffering hourly by the
horrors OF dyspepsia; no two are precisely
allke ln all points, since there is an endless
variety of combinations as TO age, sex. oecu-
patton, air, exercise, mode of eating, Sleep
ing, constitution, temperament, ETC. Yet
dyspepsia is always brought on by over and
irregular eating it could be banished from
the world IN a generation. If the children
were educated to eat moderately, regularly,
and slowly; the parents who do this will do
their offspring higher good than leaving
them large fortunes, which, in three cases
out of four, foster idleness, gluttony, and
every evil thing. As the rich can get any
thing to eat or drink when they want it, they
with INDUCED children, bring on dyspepsia
by eating irregularly and without an appe-
tite The poor-those who have to work
fora living induce the horrible disease by
eating too rapidly and at unseasonabl hours:
mainly by eating heartily at supper, and 90
ing to bed within an hour or two afterward.
In the heyday Of youth and manly vigor,
there may not for while be noticed any
special i'll effect from such a practiee-in
truth, 1t Is at first inapprecible, but it is GU
mnlatiye, and impossible not to manifest it
selfin due time Infinite benevolence for
gives a moral delinquency; but, omnipotent
as he Is, and loving towards all, it is not In
the nature of his government of created
things to work mircale to suspend nat
ural law: in order to shield one of his crea-
lures from the legitimate effects of VIC
llenee offered the physical system by excesses
IN eating drinking, or exercise.
Perhaps hearty suppers make more dys-
peptc than any or all other causes combined.
1t dinner Is at noon, nothing should be ia
ken for supper but single cup of weak tea,
or other hot drink and piece of stale bread
and butter. After forty years of age, those
who live indoors, sedentary persons-that is
all who do not work with their hands as
laborers-would do better not TO take any
supper at all. Half the time the sedentary
who eat at noon, do not feel hungry at
supper; especially if they see nothing on the
table but bread. and butter, and tea. But
nature Is goaded to act against her instincts
In almost every family in the nation by
'rellshes being placed on the supper able.
In the shape of Clipped beef, salt fish, cake,
preserves, or other kinds of sweetmeat, and,
before the person is aware, a hearty meal
has been taken, resulting in present un-
comfortableness, in disturbed sleep, in a
wearey In the morning, bad taste in the
mouth, and little or nc appetite for break
fast, all of which can be avoided by begin
ming ear y to eat habitually, according to
the suggestions above mad e.--HaFs Joar-
MI Hcnlth