Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-03
EAT ALL YOU WANT.
1t Is the Best Way to Keep i'm Good
Health.

From the ST. Louis Globe Democrat
A physician. writing on the food necessary
to give strength and sustenance, says that if
a person uses up his brain faster than he
makes it he soon becomes nervous and irri-
table. IL he does not assimilate enough food
to supply its demands his mind is sure to be-
come weak. The healthiest and strongest indi-
viduals, even, should eat far greater pro-
portion 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. Yet, in the army, we used to think
nothing better for the wounded men than
bacon. As a rule, salt meat is not adapted to
the requirements of the nervous individual, as
nutritious juices to great extent 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 re-
newing their flesh more rapidly and making
1T younger than that of birds which lead a
more quiet life. This is a suggestion that
might be of benefit to women of sedentary
habits who are DESTROYS of prolonging an APP
pearance OF youth. Fish of all kinds is a good
food for the nervously inclined. Raw eggs,
contrary to general opinion, are not as digesti-
BILE as those that have been cooked.
A notion has been prevalent 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 nourishment
than by overlooking their stomachs. Many
OF those who do eat sufficient quantity are
prevented from disease by digesting enough
for the economy of their systems. The very
first thing for any one to do who has ex-
hausted himself by mental work who has
been born weak and irritable, is to furnish
his brain with sufficient nourishment to
either repair the damage it has sustained or to
build 1t into strong, healthy condition. Peo-
pie in this condition usually suffer from nerv-
GUS 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 in
helping to renew the body, and the nervous
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 fermenta-
ton generates acids and gas.
Nervous individuals may derive all the fat
they need from sugar and starch. 1t is bet
ter, however, for those with weak digestive
organs, or whose nerves in a highly
sensitive state, to get it from the animal
Kingdom than compel their enfeebled stom-
achs, intestines and pancreas, to create it out
of these articles Good bread sweet butter
and meat are the best foods for the nerves
People troubled with insomnia nervous start
ing from sleep and sensations of falling, can
often be cured by limiting themselves to a diet
of milk alone for a time. An adult should
take pint for a meal, and take four
meals daily. People with weakened nerves
require, usually, larger quantity of water
than those whose brains and nerves are strong
it aids in the digestion of food by making it
soluble, and seems to have direct tonic effect
With proper eating and drinking we should
have fewer broken down, nervous wrecks,
and far more vigorous intellects. The pres
ent human species can not eliminate flesh
from its food and amount to a row of pins
The fancy that nothing but vegetables should
be eaten is apt to overtake everyone some
where in life. 1t is due to some disorganiza-
ton. and usually passes away with the disturb
ance that created IL