Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-02-25
How to Eat.
From Tract Published by tho Ladies' Sanitary
A.aocIatIop opdo0

From Tract Published by tho Ladies' Sanitary
Association, London.
WE should never eat when we have Just
come from fatiguing work, OF from q long
walk. The stomach sympathiEes with the
rest of the body, and cannot enter on its
work of digestion until it has had some
rest Fatal consequences are sometimes
the result of "bolting" meal after ex-
cessive fatigue. If we can sit or lie down
for ten minutes only, let us do 80, and
half hour of rest is still better.
Second. We should be particular in the
mastication of our food. Persons who
have good teeth need only little patience.
Those who have not should cut their food
as small as possible, so as to initiate masti-
cation. 1t should be known to every one
that the saliva acts very important part
in digestion. 1t should be mixed with the
| food in the mouth and swallowed with it.
| Some persons have q habit of splitting out
this saliva every few minutes, and especial
| ly before they speak. This is an unhealthy
and offensive habit, TO call it by no other
name
Thirdly. We should eat slowly. And,
in order TO be able to do this, if our labor
presses us, II is better 10 eat only light
luncheon In the middle of the day, and take
one hearty meal after the days work is
done. Then we are at ease; we have time
to laugh and talk over the days doings
while we take our food we are not obliged
to finish at any given minute and hurry
away to work.
| Children need to eat often-Oftener
than we do-because they have not only
to repair the daily waste, like ourselves,
but to accumulate the means of increased
| growth. Children are also supertluously
active, and waste strength in that way.
| They should have as much to eat as they
| want not as much as you think best, be-
| cause you do not know how much they
want or need. Your own appetite is a
| good guide for you. So 1t is for your chill
| dren. Do not tell them that bread and
butter is not good for little boys, and that
sugar spoils their teeth.
| Light bread and sweet butter are very
| good for them, and as they generally dis
| like fat meat, you must allow them all the
more sugar A chemist will tell you that
both fatty substances and saccharine or
sweet substances are eventually oxidized
in the body. Sugar is the form to which
many other things have to be reduced be
fore they are available as Matchmaking
food and the formation of sugar is carried
on in the body. 1t has been proved that
the liver is factory, in which other con
stituents of food are transformed int
sugar. Now, il is probable that your boy
really need sugar to make and keep then
well, and it is Fortunate that most children
are fond of sweets. Children are very
fond of vegetable acids ripe fruit, If they
can get it if not, they will seize on un
ripe fruit.
The use of ripe fruit in bowel Difficult
ties is quite important. Where the bowel
do not act freely, it is often sufficient tC
give, not dose of rhubarb, which the boy
hates, but saucer of ripe berries or {
ripe apple before breakfast, which he doei
like. Some child, being asked, "Wha
was wrongS" answered, Everything
want to do" And 1t does sometimes
seem as if parents were occupied mucl
more in denying than in gratifying theil
children's appetites This is neithel
necessary nor fair. They get as tired o
bread aud milk as you would do. AnC
} what comes of itS Simply, that, as sool
as they have an opportunity, they indulge
their love for fruits and sweets to excess
Then you think that it is the fruit and tn,
sweets that do the harm, whereas, 1t il
only the excess. Let your children ea
J what you do, and as much as they want
and as you mean to eat only healthy food
they will be quite safe.