Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-02
What Physicians Say ABOUT
Hearty Midday Meal,

A good deal Of attention has lately
been attracted by declaration made
in q paper devoted to the study Of
proper food for man that good Lea IL
could culy be secured by taking
hearty meal at midday. The writer
went to say it was 55.ter for business
men to take time for q substantial meal
at midday than to snatch the hasty
lunch that is usual, for the latter pro
ceeding was simply inviting fate. This
opinion attracted the attention of some
Of our morning contemporaries. who
seemed to agree with II. Therefore a
Commercial reporter was sent On tour
among we'll known physicians of this
city t. ascertain whether it is advisable
and heslthful for active. pushing men
to stop in the midst Of their day s work
and consume hearty meal. Tue ms jor
ity of those spoken to laughed at the
theory thus prOpounGed. Au eminent
physician living in the upper part vi
the city said the reason Why heavy
midday meal would be il jurIuus, whil..
the evening dinner was really healthy,
was that business and professional Mel
were generally IL such hurry in the
middle of the day that they could not
spare time to Easticate the food they
ate, much less allow it to digest.
before rushing again to their work. He
had visited restaurants III the lower
part of the city between Il and l
o'clock in the day, and had seen re-
spectacle men grabbing and swallowing
food the same AS hogs at q trough. TuIs
method of eating was decidedly un
healthy, and it would be far better if they
would merely nibble hard cracker
during the middle OF the day, for they
would have to nasticate that ami take
little time over ii. 1t was far health
to dispose of a hearty breakfast, Say
from to 8 O'Clock In the morning, ca;
lightly during the middle of tho day,
then take time to their dinners after
the days iabors were over. i dinner
at about or o'clock, eaten slowly and
enjoyed amid pleasant family surround
ings, interspersed with cheerful CONVEX
sstloD. Was far more productive Of
health than all the midday meals which
could be thought of. a heavy midday
meal would unfit professional men
for carrying on any business in tie
afternoon, as it ardld make them heavy
and sleepy. for nalute requires some
kind OF repose IL ali digestion.
Another weli-kbosn ply siciaa said
the system Of eatiEs In this Iuntry was
ridiculous, rs sly person Of common
sense would So. Tao ma ,rlty OF
persons thrust three heavy meals into
about ten hours, aud leave the body
without frera supply Of food for the
remaining fourteen i.,urs OF the day
and night. lie tt"ash 1.-TWO good meals,
morning anu u,enips. would be tie
proper plan, with prIusps aiight luGcu
or cracker Sna glass Of wine ut about
ono O'Clock il the day. This wouid
allow bolh OF tho n-avy meals an oppOr-
tunity to digest before the next was
taken. As to heavy midday meal for
men who have to tear around as if the
next moment were to be their last, it
is perfectly ridiculous, as the food,
instead of digesting and forming blood
muscle and brain, would act as q block
to those forces Of nature-choking up Il
sever, as it we're.
Other physicians expressed similar
opinions, the same IDEAS being gwen
only in different phrases and LII does OF
expression.-lNew York Commercial.