Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-11
DON'T STINT YOUR STOMACH.
By Eating Enough You Increase Your Chances
of Good Health


of Good Health
physician, writing on the food neces-
sary to give strength and sustenance,
says that if a person uses up his brain
faster than he makes it he soon becomes
nervous and irritable. If he does not
assimilate enough food to supply its de-
mands his mind is sure TO become weak
The healthiest and strongest individuals
even, should eat a far greater proportion
of meat than of vegetable food
Beef should be taken as the standard
meat. It answers every purpose of the
system. Veal and pork are not as easily
digested. Pork, so far as its composition
goes, is an excellent food for nervous
persons, but it is not readily digested 4.
Yet, III the army, we used to think MOTH
ing better for the wounded men than ba-
con. As rule, salt meat is not adapted
to the requirements of the nervous indi-
vidual, as nutritious juices to great eX-
tent go into the brine.
The flesh of wild birds is more tender
and more readily 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 a more quiet life. This is a
suggestion that might be of benefit to
women Of sedentarv habits who are
DESTROYS of prolonging an appearance of
youth. Fish Of all kinds is good food
for the nervously inclined. Raw eggs,
contrary to general opinion, are not as
digestible as those that have been
cooked.
A notion hos bean Drava1ent that MANY
persons injure their digestion by eating
too much. The fact is that most people
don t eat enough. There are more people
killed every year by insufficiency of nour-
ishment than by overlooking their stOm-
achs. Many of those who do eat a suf-
fcient quantity are prevented by dis
ease from digesting enough for the
economy of their systems. The very
first thing for anyone to do who has ex-
hausted himself by mental work or who
has been born weak and irritable is to
furnish his brain with sufficient nourish-
ment to either repair the damage it has
sustained or to build it into strong,
healthy condition. People in this con-
dition usually suffer from nervous dys-
pepsia. 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 with the rest, undergoes
fermentation and the body and brain it
should nourish may starve. The person
is in a worse state than if the food had
not been taken, for the fermentation
generates acids and gas.
Nervous individuals may derive all the
fat they need from sugar and starch. Tt
is better, however, for those with weak
digestive organs, or whose nerves are in
a highly sensitive stated to get it from
the animal kingdom than compel their
enfeebled stomaohs, intestines and pam
creas to create il out of these articles.
Good bread, sweet butter and meat are
the best foods for the nerves.
People troubled with insomnia, ner-
vous starting from sleep and sensations of
falling, can often be cured by limiting
themselves to diet of milk alone for q
time An adult should take pint for
a meal, and take four meals daily.
People with weakened nerves require,
usually, a larger quantity OF water than