Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1895-12-26
wHA1 10 EAT AND WHEN.
The Rules to Regulate Diet to Age and
Occnpation.


The Rules to Regulate Diet to Age and
Occupation.
An adult in average health re-
quires, as a rule, about three meals
s. lay, and these may be arranged
as follows: Breakfast at $50, lunch
at 80, dinner at z.
In country places, where dinner is
taken in the middle of the day, a
light tea is taken at and supper at
s, and when there is late dinner
cup of tea may, as rule. be taken
without eating at o'clock.
The tendency in adults is very
louch toward overeating, for food is
not required in the adult body in or.
der to supply growth, but only to
support waste of tissue. 1t is there
fore evident that those who lead
comparatively idle life without
much exertion, either mental or
physical, require very much less
food than those who are engaged in
active occupations.
Business men who have to be NOV
ing about much in the middle of the
day should not take heavy lunch
cons, but should make their chief
meal in the evening
The practice of taking soup at the
beginning of dinner is based on a
sufficiently scientific principle, as
when small quantity of strong,
good soup is taken the liquid that is
rapidly absorbed into the blood re-
freshes and stimulates and prepares
the way for more solid meals.
Sufferers from indigestion, how
ever, often find that they cannot
take soup, and these should also
avoid taking strong tea or coffee
after dinner, as they retard the
process of digestion.
Some persons who have slow di-
gestions do best with very long in
tervals between their meals, others
need food more frequently, and if
they do not have it at frequent in
tervals the appetite passes off and
they are unable to eat, and grow
weak.
As rule, women require less food
than men, as their bodies are small
er and they do not generally lead
such active lives, but they very
often injurc their health very much
by living principally ON tea and
toast, cakes and other innutritious
articles of diet when they have no
male relatives present to stimulate
them by the force of example into
taking more nourishing articles of
| food.
Elderly persons of either sex are,
as rule, unable to digest or assimi-
late food in the same way as in their
younger days, owing to the pro-
crossing degeneratiyec cha ges in the
glands and lessened absorbent power
in the alimentary canal.
The amount of food taken at a
time should be small, and the inter
walls between meals rather short.
When, as in many cases, it is the
habit to awaken about 4 o'clock in
the morning, little food, such as
cup of cocoa or warm milk or beef
tea, will often insure sleep after
ward
All farinaceous foods should be
Submitted to high temperatures for
/ some time, SO as to render the gran
ules of starch easy to digest, for
owing to the lessened activity of the
! glands and lessened power of masti-
cation the food in old people is, like
that of young children, not sufficient
ly subjected to the action of ptyalin
in the mouth.
Stewed celery and cooked Spanish
onions are very nice for old people,
and old gentlemen have been known
to take Spanish onions cooked in
milk habitually for supper, saying
that this induces sleep. = Lady's