Arizona republican., 1903-04-12

eggs or whatever may make up our
breakfast. But it is all habit.
The fast cure is one of the new
ideas that will become fixed in the
minds of the people. In fact, it is to-
day very firmly believed in by many
who have adopted a more simple regi-
men of food. and. in some cases where
the outlay of effort is slight during =
day, have formed the habit OF emitting
one meal either the breakfast or the
luncheon, from the usual three.
"A great many of the ailments that
humanity suffers from proceed directly
from the stomach. While as many more
proceed indirectly therefrom. Apoplexy
heart failure and in many cases sudden
deaths, can be traced directly to the
stomach, overtaXed and weak, yet
pushed on to the task for which it is
unequal. The result is inevitable.
"A restricted diet is always an AID
toward recovery, and fasting, together
With the hot water treatment, that IS,
cups of hot water drunk during the day
as tonic. will produce remarka bly,
quick cures in some stomach troubles.
Doctors prescribe milk diets and otnac
diets not so much for the virtue of the
diet itself as to avoid the harmful eff
fects Of the foods it excludes. To keep
/ person on a milk diet for week or
two means that the stomach gets -
complete rest.
The no-breakfast fad and the anti
luncheon idea alike have their inception
in the rule of lessening the amount o:
food eaten in the twenty-four hours.
The avera ge human being who does not
work hard partakes of twice as much
food as is necessary and Injuries his
health by doing so.
Eating is not done so much from
actual desire or appetite as from habit.
People eat when they have nothing else
to do. They eat simply because others
are eating.
Look at our fashionable restaurants
and observe the continual feasting that
goes on from noon until past midnight
each day. Luncheon is followed by tee
and then dinner skips closely on the
heels of the afternoon feast, which has
no proper place in American life. After
a few hours at the theater supper is or.
LAS to the fasts one occasionally
hears OF, such as fasts of several weeks
! that have been known to produce good
J
ed by the individual constitution and
could not be recommended generally.
| But there is one rule that would hurt
no one, and that is a general restriction
! in eating, especially in the item o;
meat. That is why the abstinence Of
Lent is so beneficial.
mo one need be afraid that moderate
/ fasting will injure him in the case al
any illness which proceeds from the
stomach, While in all cases a restricted
diet is to be advised.
Women are by far the greatest sin
ners in this respect, although the heavy
midday luncheon of business men il
nothing short of a crime. But women
are always nibbling and interlard their
| shopping trips and calls with cups Of
tea, with toast and cakes and sweets
and then complain of headaches and
wonder why they never feel we'll.
AT some of the health resorts one is
positively stunned by the continual
feasting INDUCED in by invalids, many
of whom never stir from the sun par
lors or their own apartments except to
so to the dining rooms. Yet as you
converse with them you will hear of
nothing but their ailments The only
! wonder is how they manage to remain
alive.
Dyspepsia especially yields to fast
ing and light meals rather than dieting.
indigestion is only a symptom of some
thing awry with the internal machin-