Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-12-24
As to Food.

Opinions about eating have taken o
m IRE sensible turn under late medical
observations. contrasting with the time
IN memory when conscientious people
studied to limit their fare to the tcwest
ounces that would sustain life. Pious
people and inlid ell philosophers alike
thought it an advance when they could
record their daily diet at fifteen ounces.
mostly of bread and weak drink. Rigid
persons carried scales to the table and
weighed their food allowing so many
minutes and SO many ounces. after
which they rose from the table hungry
or satisfied as the case might be- Hy-
glenlc reformers are SILL harpino ON
the mistaken rule. "Always rise tom
the table hungry. as if the natural in
stincts of the body were given soley to
be disregarded, and to be a constant I'M
eaSnesS. This ascetic rule is one ex-
IRENE OF the food question opposing
which we may place the homely old say
ing, that the way TO eat mush and
milk was to ''sit two inches from the
table, and eat until YOU touch" Science
and common sense alike forbid hunger
and repleton.
DIR. HODGES, before the BOstoa So
Getty for Medical Improvement, takes
high and wcll-sustalncd ground that
1.-THE body requires not only TO be fed.
but filed" and SAYS that the underfed
absorb IA large part of medical practice
for the relief of diseases from lack ~
nutrition, among which are. nervous
proStratiOn. anTmia, neuralgia. cough
and throat troubles. constipation, back
ache, and nausea or sick headache.
The symptoms of chronic starvation.'
he declares, are found not only in Irish
and LanchaSire famnes. or among uu-
derpaid operatives and shop girls, but
In good families among growing
school children, bows fit No for college.
society girls. young mothers OF fan-
lies, and working women. Quality of
food. with All the heat AMI force il may
contain. will moi make up for quantity
and the better educated classes readily
deceive themselves. and misleJd others,
rs To the amount of food necessary
for welfare. Under the con cit
that eating heartily j. neither whole
some nor refined, habit of going with
out enough sustenance is established,
till the stomach grows contracted from
want OF sufficient ctualng. and the
result is low tone, and weakness of
body and brain. Much OF tn ill-humor.
the dullncss and iiatnc,S of intercourse.
the ia lure in business and literature.
i directly traceab.c TO defective nutri-
ton The mind i. slow or confused.
the nerves give way uuier strain. and
that snappishness results which j.
rcaIy a form Of hy>t ria. in men AMI
women. The shortcomings Of the usual
diet are apparent wAel It j. seen that
the ordinary rat ON of IN xei fare
should weigh with ia an ounce and Il
half OF seventeen pounds of the heart
lest food. The utter nadequacy OF the
genteel restaurant portion WAS fore bis
shown at the international Health EN-
h bltlOn IN London. when the Veoe-
tartan Society pumed itself on fur
nshing siX-pennN dinners TO four or
five hundred persons daily. From the
carefully kept account OF bill of fare.
with the standard diet agreed
upon by Psychologists. it appeared
that six of the slX-penny dinners would
be- needed TO support man durinr
hand days labor. And growing crea-
lures, hard students. and overtas kel I
women require not les, than two-thirl, !
this amount, or the body languishr.. /
and it takes but few years to cstab- /
Iish disease. Experience confirms the /
necessity of hearticr diet. Within +
twenty years the rat ons of arm -. and Z
Of charitable institutions. hosp tais /
and prisons have been literally uncr,a>- I
ad. 1t j, hardly possible to exageratc .
the necessity Tor an amended d ci. zen. 4
erous in quantity. quality and variety
The OHgycQattOliuitSl.