The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-07-25
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1ls Assonaut has az attractive afii.
fie "a thr three neaA hahlt in eh 0h
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tian iu raiinr than 10 cHmmun among
Americans aud lnNl Ifhmfn TNr lHt-
/ fnI Nis said. are thp uffatrr Offenders
To read the naniinF rules ls tH stand
urhast at Vhat in England. ia called
/ "a training regimen. Baniine actually
provides fcr ave lunches and menln
per diem. BRUSH moderation iH also
outlined BY sir Henry Thofnpnon
whose work on Dictetics has Iona boon
a standard authority. According 90
this book u is harmful TO take more
than four meals a day with four
courses 90 each meal Usually the
I British live on land as people do on
board an occan-going steamship bav-
/ ing their three meals supplemented by
a snack on getting up, i've o'clock
tea and a late supper. When King
Edward visited country house not
long ago the order was for seven sep
arate services OF food. with cold chick
en- and wine left in the bedroom over
night. II put on a dietary the King
would probably have come down TO
five.
The American has not yet reached
the i've meal habit, unless II be the
sort of one who lives In clubs and kills
himself with kindness. But he sticks
with all his grit to the three meal
habit irrespective OF whether he leads
an active or sedentary life-and he
pays for IL in Doctors bills. IL IL a
matter OF scientific verify that the
longest-lived people are those who get
Just about enough plain food to stay
their stomachs. and that the shortest
lived people, and those most afflicted
with physical ailments while they do
live. are clubmen and the swagger rich.
We see by the latest New York Sun
day sun that the govt IL wreaking IT.
self like an epidemic In all the fash
ionable avenues.
The three-meal habit is an inherit
tance from the early days in America
and elsewhere when people earned
their living by physical toll. We
doubt that 80 much food was necessary
then; but IL was eaten, and the habit
of calling for IL was passed on to gen
erations of people whom labor saving
machinery or some purely mental oc-
cupation, had rescued from the need
of hard work. That the ordinary three
meals of the weil-to-do toiler Is more
than he requires or ought to force upon
his digestion is a fact which the high
average Of health in prisons illustrates.
We venture to say that the convicts In
oahu prison today, men who get just
enough to eat and no more. and who
work on the streets and in the quar-
ries, are healthier than the same num-
Der of free day laborers or mechanics,
casually picked from the sidewalks.
1t is remarkable how little food the
human system really needs. Says the
Argonaut:
| Medical writers say that a we'll
known English physician took as his
sole nutriment, during the last six
teen years of his life, three pints Of
milk daily. Yet on this diet he not
only sustained life. but was able to
perform all the duties Of his arduous
profession.
This case is not exceptional. II Is re-
lated that old Sam Houston of Texas
who preserved his vigor to the age Of
seventy In spite of wounds and hard
ships innumerable. lived on oranges.
| Think of Couvaro who Toasted daily on
half the yelk OF an egg. The Moors
who conquered Spain and would have
overturned Europe but for Charles
Martel, made their tremendous
marches and fought their desperate
battles on a single meal. which consist
ed Of n handful of dates. The Romans
of their simpler and greater epoch.
performed their prodigious tasks on
two meals per day. 1t has been shown
in our own day. in the case OF DIR.
Tanner. that a man may go for thirty
days without food and suffer no phys
ical detriment. John Muir, the hale
old California mountaineer and savant
makes an annual walking trip to the
Yosemite and back, eating nothing on
the way but dry bread and drinking
n little tea. The late c. +. Huntington
ate bread and milk at banquets and
never consumed what is called "a
square meal" And at seventy he was a
business giant.
For the tropics the lighter the eat
ing the better the health. In the Ad-
vertiser's first of January edition, the
! leading doctors OF Honolulu conceded
in that statement and were also vigor-
Gus In their pronouncement against
meat. Two meals a day are enough for
anybody here and they should not be
heavy meals. Those who toll hardes,
In this country eat little else than rice
those who toll least eat three meals d
day with meat and other blood warm
ing provender at each meal Expert
ence shows that this habit makes bust
ness for the drug stores and doctors
but to break II is likely to prove next
10 impossible task owing to the letters
Of custom and the temporary discom-
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