The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-03-26
The Best Food for the Best Bodies.


Thousands of dollars are spent year
IL for drugs and doctors bills because
parents are so ignorant or neglectfuI 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 tho proper develop
ment and perfect soundness of the
body. An Individual with a perfectly
healthy and well grown body is, other
things being equal, much more apt to
be good and law-abiding and valua-
bic citizen, than one with a sickly or
ll-grown or insuficiently developed
body. DR.. Everett, a female physician
OF high character and standing IN New
York, has recently been lecturine to
large audiences in that city, taking for
her subject, among others, ''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, and
not the Venus de Medici, was, in her
opinion, the standard for female beauty.
A woman should be erect to be health
full. There are seven muscles for keep
ing the head erect, which shows that 1t
is meant 10 be kept erect, and womeo
who stoop and do not carry their heads
erect seldom bear the burdens of life
heroically. II a woman stoOps all her
organs adjust ths m elves 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 oontended,
could be avoided by right methods in
the use of food. Children under six
teen years of age should be fed largely
on brown bread and milk. Such diet
will give them pearly teeth, brilliant
eyes, healthy compilations, and good
size. Surely when our fair learn that
brown bread has such virtues, and that.
besides, steady indulgence in it will
cure pains In the neck and spinal col
umn, will strengthen the brain and
nervous system with phosphorus, and
IN conjunction with oatmeal Porridgs,
will cure neuralgia, they viii 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 charms of
pearly teeth and brilliant eyes, rosy,
Venus of Milo.
Condiments, DR.. 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
10 not give proper weight to the fact
that the body makes all the sugar needed
In the sy ystem from the starchy portions
of other foods, and so does not need
the pure article as a 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 q high degree of in
tellectuality, 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 DIR. Everett IS no vegetarian-and
says that Yegetarians are often german
dizers from the necessity of eating a
great deal in order to get the required
amount of nourishment-whilei in the
spring vegetables, and in the summer
food. Men, she contends, are at their
prime nowadays at thirty-eight instead
of fifty, because their eating is not
properly regul ted. Proper food and
proper hours for eating it should be
selected. If dinners have TO
be deferred till 6, z, or 8 O'Clock they
should be made light, and the heavier
meals should be eaten in the morning,
It is one of DIR. DiO Lewis theories that
no man should eat supper, and that
dinner should be eaten not long after
noon.
One thing is very certain, that great
part of our comfGrt and happiness in
this life depends upon the health of our
bodies, and that we give very little in
-elligent care to our bodies. Another
thing is also very certain, that parents
would save themselves many heart |
aches a sorrows if they would be stu.
iious to give their children perfectly
sound, healthy bodies as one part of
the capital 10 start life on. It is a sin
yular and hardly explicable peculiarity
Of civilized mankind that prompts them !
TO give SO much labor and study to get !
money together whereby they may COM !
mand all the pleasures of sense, while, |
at the same time, they go on IN con-
JenJeQ ignorance OF tnOSe laws OF buelr !
own being, upon which the full enjoy
ment of all the physical comfort and !
pleasure that money can give wholly |
depends. People as q rule know much !
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 find |
put about the best way of raising chill |
1ren than they do to learn improved !
of raising other animals. With |
proper efforts to find out the laws of |
health, the best, habits of living, and |
ihe best diet, we could easily secure |
4 fine race os men and women. as by |
,he same methods we have succeeded in |
developing the finest horses and cattle |
md hogs ever known in the world
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