The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-23
OVER.EATlNG.

n urges the need of a greater mooerd-
tion in eating than is common among
Americans and Englishmen. The lat
ter, it is said, are the greater of1enoers
To read the Banting rules is 10 slaiio
aghast at what in England, is calieu
a training regimen. Banting actually
nrovidez for five lunches and meals
per diem. British moderation IS also
outlined by Sir Henry thompson
whose work on Dietetics has long Deen
a standard authority. According 10
+his book it Is harmful to take more
than four meals day with four
courses to- each meal. Usually the
British live on land as people DO on
board an ocean-going steamship nav
ing their three meals supplemented py
a snack on getting up, five O'CLOCK
tea and a late supper. When KING
Edward visited q 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 10
FIVE.
The American has not yet reached
the five meal habit, unless it 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 ne
pays for it in doctors bills. 1t is a
matter of scientific verify that the
longest-Iived people are those VINO 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 cIubmen and the swagger rich.
We see by the latest New York sun
day Sun that the govt is wTeaking it
self like an epidemic in all the fash
ionabie avenues.
The three-meai habit is an inherit
lance from the early days in America
and elsewhere when people earned
their living by physical toll. We
doubt that so much food was necessary
then; but it was eaten. and the habit
of calling for 1t was passed on to gen
erations Of people whom labor-saying
machinery or some purely mental oc-
cupation, had rescued from the need
of hard work That the ordinary three
meals of the well-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-
lber 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 writer's say that a we'll
known English physician took as his
sole nutriment, during the last six
teen years of his life, three pnts 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. 1t is re-
lated that old Sam Houston of Texas
who preserved his vigor to the age of
seventy in spite of wounds ard hard
ships innumerable, lived on oranges
Think of COWARD 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 single meal, which consist
| ed of a 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 DR..
Tanner, that man may go for thirty
days without food and suffer no phys
zeal 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
little tea The late C. P. 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, tbs
leading doctors of Honolulu conceded
in that statement and were also vigor-
Gus in their announcement against
meat. Two meals day are enough fol
anybody here and they should not b,
heavy meals. Those who toll hardes
in this country eat little else than rice
those who toll least eat three meals {
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 it is likely to prove a mex
to impossible task owing to the fetter.
of custom and the temporary discom
fort of making a dietetic change
/ Ravsges OF Cholera.
| LONDON. July s.-while Harry de
Windt has been undergoing tragic ex.