The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-03-23
EAT ALL YOU WANT.

EAT ALL YOU WANT.
A physician writing on the food nee
essary to give strength and sustenance,
says that if person uses up his brain
faster than he makes 1t he soon becomes
nervous and irritable. If he does not
assimilate enough food to supply the
demands his mind is sure to become
weak. The healthiest and strongest
individuals, even, should eat a far
greater proportion of meat than vege-
table food. Beef should be taken as
the standard meat. 1t answers every
purpose of the system. Veal and pork
are not so easily digested. Pork, so far
as its composition goes, is an excellent
food for nervous persons, but is not
readily digested, yet in the army we
used to think nothing better for the
wounded men than bacon. As rule,
salt meat is not adapted to the require
ments OF the nervous individual, as nu-
trltious juices to great extent 60 into
the brine. The flesh of wild birds is
more tender and more easily digested
than that of domestic ones. This IS
accounted for by the greater amount of
exercise they take, thereby renewing
their flesh more rapidly and making it
younger than that of birds which lead
more quiet lite. This is suggestion
that might be of benefit to woman of
of sedentary habits who are desirous of
prolonging an appearance of youth.
Fish of all kinds IS good food for
the nervously inclined. Raw eggs, con-
trary to general opinion, are not as di-
gestible as those that have been cooked.
A notion has been prevalent that
persons injure their digestion by eating
too much. The fact is that people
don't eat enough. There are more
people killed every year by insuficiency
Of nourishment than by overlooking
their stomachs. Many of those who
do eat sufficient quantity are pre-
vented by disease from digesting
enough for the economy of their sys-
TENS. The very first thing for any one
to do who has exhausted himself by
mental work or who has been born
weak and irritable, is to furnish his
brain with sufficient nourishment to
either repair the damageit it has sustained,
or to build it into a strong, healthy con-
dition. People in this condition usually
suffer from nervous dyspepsia. Their
stomachs are unable to perform the
labor of assimilation. Owing to the
deficient nerve power of the individual
the food lies in the stomach Enacted
upon by the gastric juice because there
is none, or the quantity is insufficient
to have any power. Food, instead of
helping to renew the body and the ner-
vous system, undergoes fermentation,
and the body and brain it should nour-
ish may starve. The person is in
worse state than if the food had not
been taken, for the fermentation gener-
ates acids and gas.
Nervous individuals may derive all
the fat they need from sugar and starch.
1t is better, however, for those with
weak digestive organs, or those whose
nerves are in highly sensitive state. to
get it from the animal kingdom than
compel their enfeebled stomachs, intes-
tines, and pancreas, to create it out of
these articles. Good bread, sweet but
ter and meat are the best food for the
nerves.
People troubled with insomnia, ner-
vous starting from sleep and sensations
of falling, can often be cured by limit
ing themselves to diet of milk for a
time. An adult should take pint for
a meal, and take four meals daily. Peo-
pie with weakened nerves require usually
a larger quantity of water than those
whose brains and nerves are strong. 1t
aids in the digestion OF food by making
it soluble and seems to have a direct
tonic effect.
With proper eating and drinking we
should have fewer broken down, ner-
vous wrecks, and far more vigorous in
tellects. The present human species
cannot eliminate flesh from its food and
amount to row of pins. The fancy that
nothing but vegetables should be eaten
is apt to overtake every one somewhere
in life. 1t is due to some disorganiza-
ton, and usually passes away with the
disturbance that created it.-.G. Louis
Gkobe- Democrat.