The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-11
SCIENCE IN EATING WELL.
REFINED PROFILE REQUIRE DAM
TY FOODS AND FLAVORS.
In no other Country Are People SO
Poorly NOurished With Such Va
ried Abundance
From the New York Times.


Miss Ella Adelna Fletcher. a New YORK
woman. who has recently put the accumu-
lated study and experience of years into
book which she calls THE Woman
Beautiful" And we must not eonfound
simplicity with crudity," she goes on.
There is no country in the world where
there is so varied and abundant a food
supply at generally moderate prices as in
the United States, yet | doubt if the world
san show elsewhere so many well-to-do
people who are so badly nourished
I'VE are known as a race of dyspeptics.
but, dyspepsia being entirely the result of
errors of diet and want of exercise. its
treatment begins at once with the regula-
ton of these. In early stages, and even
in chronic cases before the critical state,
where the stomach rejects almost every
thing, the suffering can be Immediately
alleviated by discipline of half radons.
accompanied by systematic exercise in the
open air. The food selected must be of the
most nutritious character in least bulk and
well cooked. The drinking of hot water
before breakfast and again at night. just
before bedtime, wilp hasten a cure. There
is no more simple regulator of the internal
economy more efficaciouS, for its cleanses
| the mucous membrane of the stomach and
! stimulates the allimentary canal and the
| kidneys to do their work performing the
| necessary Office of scaVenger for the whole
| body.
"All persons who lead sedentary lives
not taking sufficient exercise to impel the
tissues of the body to throw off the daily
waste, will derive great benefit from
| drinking hot water. 1t should not be
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fort in swallowing, nor be poured down in
! deluge. Haste is both eating ana drink
| ing should be avoided.
Experience, has proved that the highest
| type of the human being is produced by
variety of foods taken at the same time.
| which thus are more easily digested than
only one or two kinds, and more readily
! enter into the chemical compounds which
| create firm, solid flesh and a transparent
| skin. Occupations and mode OF life
| should govern the choice and regulate the
| quantity of food eaten. Those engaged
| in physical labor need an abundance of
| highly heterogeneous food. UNDERGONE beef
| and well-cooked mutton with onions. cab
| bage, baked beans carrots, potatoes and
| peas are especially suited to their needs.
| The red and dark meats are more easily
| assimilated and more stimulating than the
| white meats.
breakfasts for Different People.
1T is most important that food taken
| early in the morning be of a nature that
| is most easily assimiated throwing as lit
! tie work upon the digestive organs as pos
| sible. One of the latest health fads is TO
go breakfastless until II O'clock and TO
| make even that late dejeuner a light and
| simple meal Those who have adopted it
| claim the happiest results for persons in
| ordinary hearth, some gratifying cures OF
| dyspepsia and wonderful effects upon the
! aged.
| ''The first course at breakfast should be.
| of course, fruit, fresh in the season, ami
| in the early spring oranges and grape
| fruit are specially needed These, with the
magic acid of Ehe apple, perform a most
| beneficial work in the human economy.
| Don't be frightened out of eating them by
alarmists who declare that there is too
much acid in the body already. These
| fruit acids are by chemical action turned
| at once into alkalies, and this is the rea-
son that lemons, which are similar, are SO
| beneficial for rheumatism and dropsy.
| "Starchy foods and plenty of bread and
| cereals are good for tail, thin people il
they take sufficient exercise to digest
| them. So also are sweet fruits, cream
| plenty of milk and water, and all meats
| but pork and veal. Those who find it diff
| ficult TO digest the breakfast cereals, es-
| pecially oatmeal, will find the process
| greatly aided by eating hit of toast, a
| wafer, or brown bread with them. These
| foods ming.e with the cereal in mastica-
| lion, breaking UP the mass and thus Civ
| ing the gastric fluid better chance to do
| its work. Oatmeal is TOO heating to be
a general article of diet during our sum
| mers and its digestion. as well as that of
| all cereals, should be aided by aperient
! fruts-igs, dates prunes and berries, as
| well as those already mentioned. The
| aperient fruits stimulate the flow of intes-
final gastric juices and are a sure means
| of overcoming unhyg@ic conditions,
which are menace to the complexion and
! oftener than not the originating cause of
plmples.
| at is almost unnecessary 10 say tha6
| whole wheat flour and gluten bread ought
| to displace that of fine white -four as a
standard artiele of diet. The French, who
| make of cooking and of everything per-
tanning to the table a fine art, have al
ready appropriated it. If white breaJ
must be eaten, il is much more heaHhful
| when cut in thin slices and toasted brown,
as this process transforms the starch into
dextrine, thus saving one of the labors of
! digestion.
Coffee, Ten and Other Liquids.
Brain workers commit many indiscre-
tons which jeopardlze heath. both from
overworx and failure 90 adapt food 10
work. The changes of tissue in the brain
which take place during study and
| thought are very RAPID, three hours work
| exhausting the forces of the body as much
| as day of manual labor, and the absence
of physical exercise encourages danger
out torpidity of The voluntary functions,
making their eEminations of waste very
sluggish. Therefore, this class of work.
ers, and all who lead sedentary lives, re-
quire most concentrated and easily digest
ed foods. They should eat fresh beef and
mutton, fish eggs Cooked in many forms
but never hard BOXED or fred. oysters
and all fresh green vegetables, especially
cool, crisp salads, lettuce celery chicory
escarolle water cress, tomatoes, etc, with
| mayonnaise or French dressing. They
should begin the day with fruit and make
II the principal part of luncheon, which
| should be very light meal If labor be
continued after 1t, and should be very
sparing in their use of cereals, eschew-
| ing white bread and oatmeal.
"As a rule Americans do not take enough
! LIQUID food. Two quarts daily are needed
besides that taken in the food, as I'm po-
| tatoes which contain 70 per cent. of wa