The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-29
THE HEALTHY SELDOM HUNGRY.
StOmach's Pangs Said to Be Felt Be
cause of Imperfect Digestion.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
"a thoroughly healty person is never
hungry" Thus says DR.. William Henry
Porter of the Strathmore who is a rec
ognized authority on dietetics. Up TO this
date huge appetite has almost invariably
been considered as evidence of good
physical condition. Many persons will
realize, after Weighing the Doctors re-
mark, that their great desire for food st
certain times is a warning that all is not
well with them. DR.. Porter supports his
startling statement by some interesting ex-
planatory facts sThe healthy person does
not slight his meals, 1t must be under
stood, but does ample justice to them.
Yet not until he tastes the food before him,
says DIR. Porter, does he realize the need
Of it. He could go about and forget mis-
meal times but for the force of crcum-
stances The pangs of hunger are felt as
an effect of imperfect digestion.
DR.. Porter gives some valuable informa-
ton on the question which and of what
kind shall be the principal Woodworking,
noon or night. In speaking of this, he
said:
LAS in the running of an engine, the
most intensive consumption of fuel must
be just prior to and in accordance with
the amount of work to be performed; so,
I'm a man, the time for taking, and the
quantity and quality of the meal ingested,
or the determination of the principal
meal must be in harmony with the work
to be accomplished. If the individual is
to begin his daily labors between 4 and
in the morning and terminate them be-
tween and clock in the evening, it
necessitates the taking of a good and lib
eral breakfast at an early hour in the
morning, from a half hour to an hour be-
fore beginning active work, especially so
II the last meal of the day previous has
been a light one at o'clock, as rs the
common habit of this class. Habits of
this kind naturally call for the heaviest
meal, which also may be called the princi-
pal meal, at noon, or near that hour.
ION the other hand, if the custom is TO
rise between and in the morning, and
the largest amount of work is performed
between in the morning and the succeed
ing midnight an entirely different arrange
ment of the meals must be followed. In
this class a light breakfast is in order at
about S in the morning; stronger, more
substantial meal at ] o'clock in the after
noon and the heaviest and what justly de-
serves to be called the principal meal
should be taken from TO in the evening,
because this is more nearly in the middle
of the working hours When the labors are
continued until midnight and the hour OF
resting is after this time light meal
should be taken at II O'Clock.
.In any of the instances cited, II the
food-stuffs taken have been easy OF diges-
ton, rapidly absorbed and oxidized, the
fires will naturally burn low after several
hours sleep and abstinence from food. on
the other hand II the foodstuffs taken re-
auire considerable time for their digestion
and are slowly absorbed and oxidized, the
heat-producing supply may not be eX-
hausted completely during somewhat
prolonged abstinence from food' or curing
he bours usually spent for sleeping"