Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-05-05

until one can well imagine that every
tissue Ia his LOdy l. soaked with wa
ter, the hollows Of the bones surcharg'
cd with water. his joints squash water
at every move, every organ Of the body
suspended In water, floating In wafer.
In fact. his whole system II water.
soaked,
This is going 10 extremes, Life Is
too shor, 10 spend II In drinking wa.
Ter. Better be q FISH and be done with
IL.
We believe In people drinking wa
ter, II Is good for them generally, II
they do not drink too much OF II. A
sensible amount OF water each day
will help wash the impurities from The
system, II is good for the liver, good
for the kidneys, and so on. But 10
simply swim water until the e%xcretory
organs are taxed beyond their
strength 10 rid the system Of 1t Is go.
ing 10 extremes.
Again. another person reads about
some health food, II Is just the thing
10 build up the muscles and make
| brain force, and so on. So he at once
discards all other foods and begins
| TO eat this one certain kind OF health
food. He eats the same thing morn
ing. noon and night. The food may
be simply sawdust. ground mp bread
| crust, something that has very little
nulriment to II, but has a good-sound.
ing name. But because some health
journal has recommended this food,
this foolish person will 30 on using
It, even though II Is plain 70 be seen
J that 1t Is not nourishing 10 the body,
His flesh wasteth away from his
bones. his eyes become sunken, his
cheeks hollow, and with a hungry look
he goes about extolling the virtues OF
this great health food,
We are saying nothing against
health foods generally. Some Of then
are very excellent foods indeed, But
It was never meant that any one OF
these health foods should constitute
-
the entire diet Of a person. The foof
Is all right, but a person who goes
10 extremes In using IL has made |
all wrong.
Again, a person may see 1t recon
mended in some journal that TO sit il
| the sun Is a good thing. %whereupon h,
! Immediately goes out, sits down in tn
? boz. broiling July sun. sits there unit
his skin Is baked, his ears b~listered
I tense suffering follows. The advic
was all right to sit In the sun, but |
did not mea literally to bake one
Y self to a cinder. This makes a ba,
] thing ont OF a good thing.
] So II is with exercise. Physica
culture magazines will advise som
special exercise. Perhaps a perso
who has never exercised in his lif
will begin the exercise with all hi
4 might, strength and power. and h
soon finds his muscles lame, and sti1
4 and sore, He has done himself Al
injury rather than good. The exel
else was all right. but it was carried Il
extremes.
! Now, this is just what many peopl
do. They read some good advice an
instead of using a little bit OF gumI
ton IN carrying 1t out they go to eS
tremes and overdo ii, and bring upoI
themselves all sorts of trouble, the
turn around and blame the advice tina
was given or the one who gave HI
advice.
Air Is all right. water is all right
health foods are all right, sunshine /
all right, and exercise Is all right. AL
these are good In moderation, bu
when a person goes to extremes in tht
use Of any Of them he can make then
very pernicious and harmful to hi.
whole system. instead of the whole
meant TO be.