Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-13
HOT WEATHER DIET.


New York Subtitle thousands of
men who have no homes and break
fast and dine at restaurants and club
houses get into the habit of ordering
the same things day after day and of
eating and drinking at their meals
almost irrespective Of the weather
Here is when a little knowledge of
physiology would come in to good adj
vantage to make it easier to bear UP
against the hot, sultry days.
Everybody knows that certain foods
tend to produce heat, and that in a
general way fruits and fresh vegetables
are cooling; but they do not realize
how easy it is to apply these laws of
physiology to the benefit of a mans
personal comfort. 1t is so easy to let
housekeeping get into rut and to fall
into the habit of having substantially
the same things to eat every day, es-
pecially for breakfast, that only a
small fraction of the population of
New York take Advantage of the meth
DDS mature brings to their doors to
make summer life more comfortable
They eat meats III the summer two or
three times a day, just us they do in
the coolest part of winter They have
starchy vegetables for breakfast, and
they drink sweet drinks. The man
who is in the habit Of putting three
Jumps Of sugar in a cup of coffee in
the cold winter time keeps on putting
as many Jumps in the coffee in the
summer. If he is in the habit of eat
ing hearty meat luncheon in the
winter, he does the same thing in the
summer. There is little change in the
amount he eats except the change
that is forced on him by loss of appe
tite and depression consequent upon
a heavy diet in hot weather.
Nature itself suggests to a man the
proper diet for the different seasons
of the year. Nature has SO arranged
things that, beginning with the early
spring, the first fruits and vegetables
to mature have a medicinal effect on
the system to make it throw off the re-
suits of the heavier winter diet, to open
the pores, and to make the various
of adopting this suggestion of nature
that with the first ripening of vege
tables in the spring large quantities ,of
them should be eaten, the majority of
people neglect natures hint and take
medicine instead.
Nature always takes care to punish
those who are inattentive to her adj
! vice. The summer colds which hang on
so much longer and are so much more
troublesome than winter colds are the
direct result Of the clogging of the syS-
tenn through an improper diet. Nature
and mans constitution alike suggest
the diet and the behavior for the sum-
mer which, if adopted, will make the
warm, long days enjoyable instead of
oppressive. If a man is working hard
and is accustomed to meat three times
q day during the winter it may be
we'll for him to eat meat once a day
during the summer. Once a day is
enough. and he should not eat greasy
, meat
If a man has not accustomed his
system to taking meat until the lack
of meat would make him i'll, it would
be well for him to adopt an almost eX-
elusive vegetable diet during the spring
and summer, and continue it until the
crisp days of fall. Eggs, lean bacon,
spring chickens and fish during the
spring and summer should take the
place of the heavy meats of winter, eS-
pecially hot roastS and steaks. All the
fats a man needs in the summer can
be taken in the system in the form Of
vegetable oils helped out by the natur-
al starch of raw fruits.
Sweet drinks of any kind, drinks
with alcohol in them, and ice water are
not cooling in their ultimate effects.
Anything with sugar in it or sweet
sirups is heating. Acid drinks, especial
ly those made from natural fruit juice,
are cooling. If any alcoholic drink is
wanted, the best is mildly acid vine,
diluted and cooled, but not too cold
One way to start out cool with the
days work is to drink a quantity Of
hot water some time before breakfast
and to wait for the reaction from it.
The reaction from hot drinks and hot
baths is cooling just as the reaction
from iced drinks and cold baths is
warming.
AS far as possible during the summer
cold drinks should not be taken with
meals. Cold drinks taken with food
on a hot day stop the action of the
stomach for awhile and then bring
about an uncomfortable feeling of
warmth. The cold water first causes
the blood vessels of the stomach to con-
; tract, and then with the reaction the
blood vessels become dilated and there
is an uncomfortable sense of Oppres
!; sion and heat, which leads to the
drinking of more ice-water and to re-
, newed oppression and heat. The best
! way to get the amount of water nee
essary for the system is to take it hot
before breakfast on an empty stomach,
: then to drink nothing more during the
day. All the cooling effects of perspir-
, alton can be enjoyed by drinking
enough water to keep the skin moist
and to supply the natural evaporation.
This evaporation if the pores are not
, filled with hot water, will keep the skin
cool
THE FIRST MOSQUITO.