Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-27
RELATION OF FOOD TO HEALTH.
Some Practical Suggestions and Thoughts
Upon q Vital Subject

Some Practical Suggestions and Thoughts
Upon u Vital Subject
The first meal of the day, or breakfast, is
in this country-with those in health. at
all events--a fairly substantial one. al
though some people try-but, thank good
ness, try in vain-to assimilate French and
English customs in regard to break fast.
France and its folks arc different from
England, with its solid men and women
its climate is different from ours; its no.
tons as regards eating and drinking can
never be engrafted on English bone and
muscle.
Yes. breakfast ought to be hearty one,
eaten early in the morning, and eaten
slowly, so as to preclude the possibility of
eating too heavily. which would materially
interfere with the business of the day.
man or woman who is no breakfast
eater must either be a heavy-over-h heavy
supper eater or be in a bad state of
health. a person who requires the slim
illus of a cup oftea, or any other stimulant
or stimulus whatever, before partaking of
solid food is not in the heyday of health.
like to see man have his breakfast first.
and then feel around for his cup of coffee,
tea or chocolate. / have known the
strongest and healthiest of men positively
forget all about the liquid part of their
breakfast, and leave the table without it.
have known men who scarcely ever
touched drop of liquid of any kind from
one weeks end to another. and who, new
erthelesS. were in rudy and robust health.
What a person eats for breakfast often
gives me clue to the state of his health.
One example: If, while soiourning at no.
tel, see a man come down to breakfast
between 10 and II and sit down to deviled
kidney with plenty of sauce (piquant), and
perhaps one poor puny egg to follow,
would be willing to aver that he carries
white tongue, and that his liver sadly needs
seeing to.
Ham and eggs, bacon and eggs. or beef
steak or UNDERGONE chop, with boiled eggs
to follow, and then cup of nice tea, is a
sensible breakfast for man who is going
away out into the fresh air to walk, or ride,
or work till noon. but not for person who
has to sit all day in the same position at
manual labor. l emphasize the word man
ual, because intellectual or mental work
conduces to appetite. An author hard at
his desk, if his ideas be flowing freely, if
he be happy at his work, and time fying
swiftly with him, soon gets hungry, which
only proves that we must support the body
well when there is strain upon the mind,
SO that no extra expenditure of tissue may
lead to debility.
SuccIlul COutcTSdtiOu lIlSureS lQe easy
digestion of good breakfast 1t is pity
that in this country the custom of inviting
friends to the matutinal meal is not more
prevalent. 1t may seem strange thing to
say, but would ten times sooner go out to
breakfast than to dinner. One is, or ought
to be, freshest in the morning; he then
needs no artificial stimulus to make him
feel bright, witty, happy, as he too often
does after the duties of the day are over.
The midday meal, or luncheon to those
who dine in the evening, and who have
work to do in the afternoon. should be a
light one. am not quite sure that do
not quite approve of the city smack 1t
puts one past, it sustains nature, it leaves
the mind free to think and to do its duty,
and, above all, it enables the stomach to
have rest before the principal meal of the
day.
Now, about this meal; | have to saw
that, if partaken of alone by ones self, Il
ought to be an abstemious one. Even in
company it need not be a heavy one. No
matter how many courses there are, there
is not the slightest necessity of making too
free with them.
But it Is fact, which every one must
have felt, that even moderately heavy
meal is quickly and easily digested, if ac-
with and followed by witty or
and suggestive conversation.
I'm dyspeptic; must not dine out,
l have heard gentleman more than oLce
remark.
Well, my impression is that it does dys-
peptics deal of good to dine out. if they
can eat in moderation and judiciously,
never being tempted to call in the aid of
artificial stimulus to enable them to do as
men of more robust physique are doing
around them Family Doctor, in Cas-
sells Family Magazine for March.