The Hickman courier., 1874-03-21
The Best Food for the Best Bodies.

Thousands of dollars are spent year
ly for drugs and doctors bills because
parents are so ignorant or heglectful of
the laws of life and health that they
suffer their children TO grow up from
infancy into habits of living which are
inconsistent with the proper deyeloI9
ment and perfect soundness OF the
body. An individual with n perfectly
healthy and well grown body is, other
things being equal. much more apt to
be a good and Iaw-abiiing and valua-
BILE citizen, than one with sickly or
ill-grown or insufiiciently developed
body. DIR. Everett, female physician
of high character AMI standing ia New
York, has recently been lecturing to
large audiences in that city, taking for
her sMDiect, among others, 1.-The Best
Food for the Best Bodies" She main
tanned that for the best health, women
should be five feet six inches high and
men six feet The Venus of Milo ana
nofr,sss --en.,s de Med1C1, NaS, III hefr
ard Tor feinale 1s sa1I@-
4 IMAM should be erect u, heaitn-
full. There are sever InuscleSfor keep
ing the head erect, which shows that 1t
is meant 10 be kept erect, aud women
who stoop and do not carry their heads
eIGCL&EluOu DGGI tllc VI 4AA1
heroSally II woman stoo all her
organs adjust themselves in time to
abnormal positions. The habit of erect
bearing can be acquired in youth.
Children should be trained to hold
their shoulders squarely back and to
keep their heads up. If the chin natur-
ally protrudes they should be trained
to draw it in. Physical diminutive-
ness, the learned doctor contended,
could be avoided by right methods in
the use of food. Children under six
teen years of age should be fed largeS
on brown bread and milk. Such n diet
will give them pearly teeth, brilliant
ewes, healthy compilations, and good
size. Surely when our Eir learn that
brown bread has such virtues, and that.
besides, a steady indulgence in IL will
cure pains in the neck and spinal col
umn, will strengthen the brain and
nervous system with phosphorus, and
in conjunction with oatmeal porridge,
will cure. neuralgia, they will prefer it
to nauseous drugs, and so get bodily
ease and the delights of sound health,
at the same time they secure perma-
nently for themselves the CHAINS Of
pearly teeth and brilliant eyes, rosy,
clear compilations, and figures like the
Venus of Milo.
Condiments, DIR. Everett says, are all
denominations. Mustard, vinegar, and
catsups should be avoided, and salt
used sparingly. She classes sugar and
molasses with condiments, and main
tains that the chemists and psychologists
who advocate them as articles of food
do not give proper weight to the fact
that the body makes all the sugar needed
in the system from the starchy portions
of other foods, and so does not need
the pure article as diet. She recon-
mends that women should feed their
husbands on oatmeal, porridge, and
apples to make them strong for study,
for thought, and for business. She at
tributes the fact that the Scotch have,
as a rule, such fine physiques, such
large brains. such high degree of in
tellectualitv, to the fact that they are a
nation of oatmeal eaters. Food, too,
should be appropriate to the season. In
the winter meat may be freely eaten
for Dr. Everett is no vegetallan-and
6rgsut ttfes fesI 81 are sfts,, s'ss;Ens,,=
amount Of nourishment-whlle IN the
spring vegetables, and In the summer
fruit should take the place OF heaftler
food. Men. she contends, are at their
nrime now-a-days at thirty-elght instead
of fifty. because their eating IS not
properiv regnl ted. Proper food and
proper hours for eating 1t should be
carefully selected. Ii dinners have 10
be deferred till 6, z, or o'clock they
should be made light, and the heavler
meals should be eaten IN the morning,
tt is one of DR.. Dio Lewis theories that
no man should eat supper, and that
dinner should be eaten not long after
noon.
mart of our comfort and happiness IN
This life depends upon the health OF our
bodies. and that we give very little IN
teIligent care to our bodies. Another
thing is also very certain, that parents
would save themselves many heart
aches a-d sorrows if they would be stu
dious to give their children perfectly
souud. healthy bodies as one part oi
tba capital to start life on. 1t Is SIN
oular and hardly explicable peculiarly
of civilized mankind that prompts them
TO Give SO much labor and study 10 get
money together whereby they may com
maud all the pleasures OF sense, while,
Mt the same time, they go ON IN con
tented ignorance of those laws OF tnelr
own being, upon which the full ENJOY
ment of all the physical comfort and
pleasure that money cR give wholly
depends. People as rule know mueh
more about the correct principles on
which the rearing of horses, and cattle,
and mules, and hogs, and chickens
should be conducted, than they know
about the right way TO raise children;
And they take much less trouble to ind
ont about the best way OF raising chi,
dren tban fhev do to learn improved
methods of raising other animals. With
nroper efforts to find out the laws Of
health. the best, habits of living, and
the best diet, we could easily secure
a fine race os men and women, as py
tbe same methods we lave succeeded II
developing the finest horses and cattle
andAogs ever known in the world
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