Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-23
About Eating.
HOW TO EAT.


THE common vice OF our people in the
United States, in both town and country,
In city and village, among old and young,
rich and poor, is rapid eating, when the
stomach, like dark bottle which is at
tempted TO be filed with q funnel, gets
full, and Overruns before one knows It.
There are two iii effects from hssty feed.
ing the food expands considerably, both
by increased warmth. and by its being d.
vided and liquihed, 30 that IL the stomach
ID not full when one ceases 10 eat, 1t will
be full enough in very few minutes by
the heating and liquefyibg process; thus II
happens when person Is called from the
table, he m.y feel as II he could very
easily have eaten more, but If detained q
very few minutes, he comes back feeling
that he does not want to taste another
particle, and ofttimes expresses himself
impatiently about his dinner being
"spoiled," when the truth ia bis food has
been enlarged in bulk by the necessary
preparation which 1t has undergone, thus
making the stomach full enough for all
healthful purposes, and full enough for
comfort If meal is eaten with great
deliberation, this expanding, heating,
liqnefying process begins and keeps
pace with the meal, and a man does not
feel like q gorged anaconda. The Eng.
lish people thus eat, as a nation they
give themselves time TO enjoy their food,
To experience the pleasure of its taste, and
make eating qualification; while we
Americans, in multitudes Of cases, look
at II az thing TO be gotten through with
as task which has to be performed, and
the quicker the better.
HOW MUCH TO EAT.
The answers to the question how much
to eat depend so largely on the circum.
stances of age sex, season, latitude and
employment, the 1t would be impracti-
cable TO name any amount rs applicable
TO the majority of any class OF persons |;
In fact, II is one Of those questions which
each man should aim 10 answer for him
self, that answer being founded on his
own close observation and sound judg.
ment. The following rules, however, will
perhaps meet all cases as TO general
habits:
/. Eat at regular specified times, and at
no others.
2. Hard workers, especially those who
are most Of the time in the open air,
should eat as much as they want ut break.
fast and dinner.
3. Those who are In doors most OF the
time, as women, literary men and stu
dents, should never eat full as much as
they want This would be safe rule for
all sick persons also.
SPRING DISEASES
As the weather gets warmer less food Is
needed to keep the body warm. We, In
our blindness endeavor to Keep up the
same heat, to burn as much internal fuel
in July as in January. II we do eat as
much, the system cannot appropriate 1t !;
1t Is rejected, It Is cast out; but in making
the effort to cast II cut, natural force ID
expended which ought TO have been saved,
weakening ourselves unnecessarily, while
we were weak and languid before; and
these were the very feelings which
prompted US to be doing something to
make us feel better, to improve our gen.
eral condition and TO increase our strength.
The means we used were to force upon
the stomrch much larger amounts than
were craved, thus imposing on that much
abused organ the additional labor, not
only to expend the strength Of the system
unnecessarily, but to cause irritations,
and fevers, and inilammations, which bring
wreck and ruin to Thousands every spring
and summer-the deaths IN the warm
| months being nearly double those In
the cooler ones of October and Novem-
her. Health increases In the autumn.
The health, and strength, and bodily en-
joyment Of all communities increase %
the weather begins to cool In the first
days of October the appetite gradually
improves, because Nature sees that, a. the
weather ID getting cooler outside, there
must be more fuel consumed within, and
she instinctively calls for more food and
the strength increases proportionally.
LET THE CHILDREN ALONE.
Let your children alone when they
gather around the family table; 1t is a cru
city to hamper them with manifold rules
and regulations about this, and that, and
the other. As long as their conduct 10
harmless as to others encourage them in
their cheeriness. If they do smack their
lips, and their suppings Of milk and
other drinks can be heard across the street,
It does not hurt the street-let them alone.
What If they do take their soup with the
wrong end Of the forkS II 10 all the same
to the fork-let them alone.
Suppose child does not sit as straight
a. ramrod at the table; suppose cup or
tumbler clips through its little fingers and
deluges the plate Of food below, and the
goblet IL smashed, and the table-cloth u