Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-11
By Louise c. burlington, NJ. D.
Heath and Heredity Supt. Natl "
c. T. u, Dorchester, Mass.]

=. L. IT,, dorchester, Mass.
How to eat scientifically is fast be-
coming one of the problems of the day.
Not with the majority of the world,
| however, to whom the greater problem
is how to get anything to eat, at least
enough to sustain life. How often to
eat? How much to eat? and what
| kinds of food? are special questions
for solution.
The more one struggles with the mys-
teries of proteids, fats, and carbohy-
| drates; with nutritive and fuel values
| with adaptations, proportions and re-
auirements. the more serious these
questions become. The literature and
advice are getting so vast, opinions
are so diverse. and dietetic fads so
numerous, that the middle man an
swers as Agur in the Proverbs, Feed
me with food convenient for me- i. e..
what agrees with me and the best 1
can get, and let it go!
These are not modern questions, I'M
less. perhaps. scientifically considered.
AS early as 1871. Edward Baynard, M.
d.. anticipated the growing company
|.Qf those who go supperless to bed. He
said:
Let supper little be and light,
But none makes always the best night;
It gives sweet sleep without a dream.
Leaves mornings mouth sweet, moist
Those abstemious in the morning are
antedated in this word:
"A little breakfast you may eat,
But not so as to Satiate."
AS relates to quantity and to absti-
hence in general, the following sound
advice is given, including a point for
the vegetarians:
Never load fresh food upon
Your stomach, till the formers gone:
taking more than Nature needs.
OF most distempers are the seeds.
ITO miss q meal. sometimes is good,
1t ventilates and coOls the blood,
Gives Nature time to clean her streets
From filth and crudities of meats,
For too much meat the bowels FUR,
And fasting's Natures scavenger''
At least 500 books have been written
upon the Digestive Organs, and prob
ably as many menus by writer's on
Eating for Health.
A growing class says that we should
live upon natural food, fruit and nuts.
Herein are stored up vitality, nutri-
ton, sentiment. From these ripe and
fragrant edibles poetry may be evolved
Solomon almost dropped into the same
when he said:
Stay me with raisins.
Comfort me with apples
A prominent Englishman thinks that
if one lives upon fruit and nuts life
may be prolonged to 1875 years. An
equally prominent American says that
we shall die the sooner if we do!
Another food prescriber tells us to
Avoid bread. cereals, and starchy
vegetables, all unnatural and disease
producing products This man ig-
nores the wise old saying. Beware of
the man who eats no bread"
The trained athlete takes not much |
else but cereals; oats are his beef. The |
Princess of Wales, Mrs. Langtry, and |
others likeminded, never touch cereals, |
of course. '
Another expert, even more ambitious,
has formulated aadiet to illustrate the
possibility of living 200 years. This is |
the secret: 4 ss@
S. Avoid food containing destructiveI
elements, or that's rich in earthly |
salts. Something that checks deposits
and hastens elimination should be |
taken; fruits. especially juicy, I'M
cooked apples; also take daily two or
three tumblerfuls of distilled water
with 10 to Is drops diluted phosphoric
acid in each glass;
These are suggestion of differing
views Dwelling upon them we have
to admit that the question of food is 1
serious one. Fruit is undoubtedly the
poetic side of good dietary, but one
cannot live even mentally upon poe
try. The weak and anaemic call for
meat;the lean for milk weak bones
Ind muscles for starch and bread: the
idipose for compounds minus the sugar
and starch; and so it goes. The doc
'ol.s disagree and The patients get along
rs best they can. sss .fa
The Puritans and their descendants,
With their regime lof pies and dough- I
luts. and sturdy, Woodworking habits,