The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-28
NorroNs ABOUT EATING.

NOI1ONS AbUUG EA44N0. q
 There are more fads and foioles con nected with diet and dieting than with almost all other human subjects com bined. The number and variety of special foods prepared for our subsistence would keep one person always busy testing them. The number of theories and theses exploited in connection with eating would fill library. When a man feels impelled to write or lecture and can think Of no other subject he falls pack on what to eat, when to eat 1t and when not to eat 1t, how to eat 1t and how much of 1t. That Is a pretty safe subject. because every man can pave his own opinion and express it.
 One will tell us, with all the positivity of one inspired, that eating supper is the bane of human existence. and anoth- CT Is equally sure that the man who goes to bed without a comfortably filled stom- ach is flying in the face of nature. An other sets it down as an incontrovert- Ible fact that eating breakfast Is little short of a deadly sin. and the next tells us that the man who goes to work in the morning before eating a full meal is fit subject for a padded cell Then there is the man who declares that only two meals should be eaten in a day and the other one who is. sure that four is about the thing.
 The New York World calls attention to the fact that pr. Lorenz Is re- markedly fine specimen of physical health and manhood, and gives this as his regular feed routine:
 First breaipfast-Taken at sso. after bathing. and composed of coffee and sev-
 Second brsakfast-Taken at 8, and con- sisting of two soft-boiled eggs. fried ham or chops, and hot tea.
 "A hearty luncheon.
 "A substantial dinner"
 We imagine that a mechanic or other hard worker would consider that very
 solid menu for the day. His two break
 lasts would carry a man along very nice-
 ly till dinner time and we are pretty sure that the hearty luncheon taken about the middle of the day would be considered a good dinner for the working man, and what he calls "a substantial dinner" would be all the supper that good feeder would require or have any use for. Yet this Is the style of a man who is great as a medical man and above the average in health and strength. Read ing of his example we are very much inclined to agree with a contemporary that ''the old English doctor who assured Queen Victoria that the best rule of health was to do anything she pleased in moderation probably came as close to the mark as any of them ever did or will"
 The whole truth of the matter seems to be that the man, doctor or layman. who lays down an iron-clad rule of diet and dieting for all to follow is wasting his time. One might as well try to fix the time and quantity of rain to suit all the farms and crops in the world as try to decide on a food and the time to eat 1t
 fly. Human wants are as varied as hu-
 man tastes, and the homely old adage | that what is one mans meat Is an-
 other mans poison is not far wrong.
 and the advice given to Queen Victoria
 was not bad. It was Socrates, we be- llieve, who said that Bad men live that | they may eat and drink whereas good
 men eat and drink that they may nve." | and each individual must be governed by what experience teaches Is best. For
 each there is something that Is not whole
 some, and the quantity. quality and ire
 quency of eating must vary to suit the needs or requirements of the person eat ing.