The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-11-07
MATTER OF EATING.
What VIII Produce Muscle-Diet for
Brain Workers.

Brain NOrhSrS.
AS result of the experiment of ages
it has been found that meat is the pro-
per diet to make muscle. 1t is the diet
consequently of the laboring class and
of athletes and others who indulge in
physical exercise. An investigation was
made of work that was being done on a.
railroad in Sicily, by both Italians and
English laborers. The Englishmen, of
course, ate lots of meat, but the natives
saved their wages because meat at that
time was high. 1t was discovered that
the Englishmen who ate the meat did
the most work. After that the natives
were pair part money and part meat.
In athletic training the theory is to put
in the stomach only what will produce
strength, muscular strength, and Moth
ing at all for the tongues sake. Meat
does this and meat can be eaten in
quantities where a great deal of exer-
else is INDUCED in. On the other hand,
the experience of people for generations
goes to prove that for mental work,
work that requires an active brain and
an Inactive body, easily soluble mixed
food should be taken in small quantities.
There have been theories concerning
this as well as other phases of diet. The
principle one that saying of German
scholar, mo phosphorus, no thinking
which led to the fatldish notion that a
diet of fish will produce intellectually.
Eating, however, has other phases
than that of health; those of pleasure
and economy. In the time of the Ro-
mans the pleasurable@ element was so
paramount that the banqueting rooms
We're built with long couches that one
could eat until he dropped and then doze
until he could eat again. Many of the
intellectual lights of the eighteenth CEN
fury also We're great gourmands. There
is probably less gluttony in the world
to-day than at any former time in his
tory, but the pleasurable element in eat
ing still remains and always will re-
main because taste is instinct with APP
petite. To-day it is more of an epicur-
can pleasure-the pleasure that lies in
detecting the different pleasures of a
mixed drink? Oh, fie! Well, this much
any way is the statement of scientific
writer that ito the habitually temperate
banquet may prove beneficial"
Some Psychologists there are who
argue that as the human teeth resemble
those of vegetable feeding apes more
than any other class Of animals, the
fruits of the earth are the most appro-
pirate food for human beings. But the
generally accepted opinion is that the
best diet is the mixed animal and vege-
table one. Meats arranged scientifically
in the order of their digestibility are
mutton, feathered fowl, venison, lamb
and beef. OF farinaceous articles of diet
bread and biscuit are the most easily di-
gestible, and their proportions are al /
ways safe. All pastry is difficult Of So
luton, as most people know to their sor-
row. Vegetables are considered ne
cessary ingredients Of the human diet,
and those eaten with the least exertion
to lthe digestive apparatus are caulf- |
flower, artichokes, beans, peas, stewed
celery, turnip tops and spinach. Maca-
roni is said not to be so bad If it has
been well soaked before cooking.
1870 VI PASdaul dulE EetlltiS
comes the time of the dinner or princi-
pal meal of the day. This should occur
after the days work has been all done
and then one can listen to the demands
Of the palate with little or no harm. AS
to the quantity of food one should eat,
that is a matter almost of Individual
need. The only general proposition that
can be made is that the amount of food
must always bear certain relation to
the amount and the kind of work one
does. Every one that has ever thought
about the matter knows that day
spent actively in the open air produces a
much bigger appetite than day spent
lazily about the house. There is a great
difference in temperaments also. FIRE.
quently a thin, nervous person requires
twice the amount of food that a..robust
person does. A time-honored maxim in
regard to the quantity of food is that
one should stop short of feeling of re-
pletion.- Washington Post.