Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-01-16
SUFFERING HUMANITY.


| Improper Food the Cause of Many of Our Ailments.
 "Food and drink are the enemies of | brain workers" says a recent writer, expressing one of those truths that are | relative. There is no question but that food and drink as ordinarily taken, in | lnd1scriminate selection and in far too | great quantities, is tue enemy, and the | fatal enemy, of brilliant intellectual I work. To the brain worker who lives
 after an enlightened and an intelligent
 fashion, on simple, nutritious food, per fectly prepared, the average dinner | of fashionable life is terrer. To | partake of it would be the ruination of
 the work for the time being The regi- | men prescribed by Dr. Salisbury, of York, has large number of intelligent | adherents, and has received the sanc-
 tion of in tellectual workers. This is | the ''beef and hot water" diet the de-
 votee to it taking pint of hot water on | rising and an hour before each meal,
 and one again on retiring, making his | meal exclusively of beef, in steak, chop
 or roast with perhaps the addition of | dry toast. This diet is believed by
 those who practice it to be the one es- sential practice to insure good health
 and elasticity. There is no sacrifice | about it, for the person adopting it feels its benefit in energy and | endurance, and so far from want ! ing the connections of the aver I age table, would perhaps starve
 rather than touch them. In nothing is
 an enlightened age so ounenlightened as
 in its cookery. The pastry, the en- trees, the made dishes in general of the | tables of well-to-do people, are, with
 out doubt, directly responsible for the | rheuma tism, the gout, the neuralgia, | the headache, and Heaven knows what, | from which general humanity professes
 itself to suffer. Nine-tenths of the dis
 eases of the world would be eliminated
 at once by a reform in foods, and the oth-
 CT tenth would be more or less lessened
 and obliterated by the effacement of
 the causes that induce it. To many peo- | pie a form of diet equally efficacious to | that of Dr. Salisbury, and more pala ta ble than constant meat. may be found in | the simple living of dry toast, fruit,
 coffee and strong beef tea. The belief
 that coffee is injurious doubtless comes
 from taking strong coffee in addition to
 too many other things. Coffee is very
 nutri tious, and is almost food of it. l
 dry toast and perfectl ly-made coffer, with | good cream, is an abundant breakfast
 and is really the best of breakfasts for | mental work. But what kind of a con- | ditlon for brain work would one be in , after the average American breakfast of | steak. potatoes mufiins eggs rolls and a i course of hot griddle cakes at the end, with the addition of indifferently-made 7 tea or coffee? Luncheon and dinner
 are equally at variance with any prin.
 ciples of enligh tened living. It is lit, ! tie wonder that headaches and other
 varie ties of aches follow such igno. i rance of hygienic laws. If the brain
 worker will follow the regimen of dry toast, coffee and fruit for breakfast, , beef tea, dry toast and fruit for lunch , 'on, and toast, with steak if desired,
 It night; taking no tea or coffee save .1t breakfast; taking brief hot bath
 before retiring and cold plunge on
 ising, he will find his mind clear and
 .lert his physical energy enduring.
 There is a vast difference between tho
 food required for tho brain worker and
 tho manual laborer. fs is no wonder
 that perfectly good health is the ex.
 ccption rather than the rule. On the
 contrary, one wonders that there is : even as high an average of health there is. when one reflects on the kinds
 of food and the quantity of food con s,umed at the average well-to-do table 1 -BOston Budget