The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-01-04

Solid and Liquid Food that Benefits or
lpjures Health.

Injuries Health.
This subject should comprise every
thing that we Ia o either as food or as
drink. i must here warn my readers
against taking drinks that are not foods
but poisons. These drinks are all the
fermented ones, such as ales, wines and
spirits. There are her drinks that
people often indulge in that are harm
full to the body. / now reter to tea and
coffee. If these are taken in large
quantities, or at all strong, they exert
a most injurious effect on the human
body. True, they do not make a man
90 home and assault his wife, but they
deaden his faculties, paralyze thought,
unsteady the nerves, and in many ways
make man less of man than he
should be
The dietetic rules / advise my pa
tients to follow are these: Take three
. meals day only, about five hours
apart; eat the food slowly, chew it well,
stop at the first feeling OF satisfaction,
eat brown bread always and drink CO.
Goa chiefly. Three meals q day are as
many as any one in robust health can
dispose OF; two might suffice, but l
find three fair meals allow me to be al
ways clear and bright and ready for
work soon after meals, and keep my
body in good condition. L advise them
to be taken about five hours apart, as
food requires from three to four hours to
digest. think it only fair to give the
stomach little rest in between. Some
may find this long at first, but little
practice will soon make it right for
them. The practice of taking food
every two hours or so is most injurious,
sets up false craving and puts per-
sons in low way if they cannot get
food at these short intervals. The
reason for eating slowly is to gently fill
the stomach, and when it has had
enough it will cry stop" Thorough
mastication of the food is most impor-
tant, as it prepares it for stomach di
gestion. The saliva has also wonder
full property of changing some of the
starch of the food into sugar, which is
thus soon absorbed, and gives immedi-
ate force to the system. When our
stomach has received as much food as
the body requires it makes us feel salts
fed; to eat more is doing ourselves in
jury, as We then eat more than the
stomach can digest and than our bodies
require. We may as a rule trust our
appetites 10 be our guides if we will but
eat plain food, but if we add season
ings, pickles, sauces, ETC., we create a
false appetite and overeat. AS long as
a person is plain bread and butter
hungry he may eat. Any person who
values his health will never eat any
other bread but the brown wheatmeal
or wholemeal bread. 1t is perfect
food in itself and contains all the ele-
ments for heating the body, supplying
it with muscular force, and it has in it
all s:lat is requisite for our bones and
bony structures. 1t also causes daily
action of the bowels, most important
function this, and when natural q great
aid to keep well. Cocoa should be
drunk at least once a day, as it has none
of the injurious properties of tea or
coffee, and if drunk weak and not too
sweet, is not at all bilious. At break
fast one may have brown bread and
butter, one cup of cocoa and an egg if
desired, while little fresh ripe fruit is
an important addition. Another break
fast is oatmeal or wheatmeal porridge
and milk; to insure mastication eat the
porridge with little bread finish up
with stewed fruit and bread No drink
is required if this last breakfast is eaten.
The use of bacon, ham, fish or meat at
breakfast is not advisable, as these
things MOI or less waste the vital pow
ers and are not necessary. Those who
are engaged at the desk all day may
take light lunch at noon, consisting of
brown bread and fruit or q salad, or a
poached egg, or some milk pudding;
for drink they may have cocoa, milk or
lemon water. Those who dine now may
eat four ounces of lean beef, mutton,
poultry, game or fish, and two vege-
tables always, such as greens and pota-
toes. AS second course there are the
vrious milk buildings or stewed fruit
and bread. Batter buildings, suet
dumplings, Norfolk dumplings and
Yorkshire buildings should only be in
obliged in by persons of strong diges-
ton and laborious occupation. For
drinks take water or lemonade. At tea
time we may take weak tea, coffee or
cocoa, brown bread and butter, with
some kind of green stuff, as salad,
tomatoes, cucumbers, fresh or stewed
fruit, or milk pudding Fish, ported
meats, ETC., are not required at this
meal, and do more harm than good.
This should be the last solid meal; at
nine or ten p. M, drink of cocoa,
lemonade, or other fruit drink may be
taken, but no solid food. Suppers mean
restless nights, dreams or nightmare,
tired feeling in the morning, nasty
taste in the mouth, no desire for break
fast, and more or less miserable feel
ings.- Housewife.