The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-12-24

DIET AND
HEALTH |
By DIR. J. T. ALLEN /
Food Specialist
Author Of Eating for a
PurpoSe." The Metz
Gospel Of HeaIfb."
Etc.
WHAT DO YOU
EAT AND WHY?

Il eat what like" would be the
answer Of the average person scan
ming the bill OF fare In the average
restaurant And to eat what you like |
because you like IT, is the best pos
sible reason. To eat what one doesn't |
like Is good for nobody IL has been |
shown in tho laboratory that "appe
lite juice is the first requirement for
good digestion.
Animals in their natural state never |
eat when they are not hungry, and |
they never eat what they don't like; |
and this together with abundance of.l
fresh air, water, exercise and normal
mental conditions, inhiblts sickness. !
except by accident while man Is al.
ways alling more or less. And the |
chief cause Of all the ailments. not
mechanical or mental. to which flesh
is heir is wrong eating.
It is generally admitted that most
sickness, temporary and chronic,
originates in the arrangement Of the
digestive system; auto-intoxication,
that is. selfpoisoning, induced by alb
sorbing into the blood the poisons
produced In the food tube by fermen.
tation resulting from eating too much,
from hurried eating, from eating too
many kinds of food at the same meal.
Many OF the most advanced students
Of the cause OF disease now believe
| that the one cause is the retaining of
waste matter In the system, which is
n necessary result of wrong feeding.
| OF course these abnormal conditions
are traceable, In the last analysis, To
wrong thinking, and they can be set
right only by changing the thought,
And II Is a happy sign Of the times
that the study Of the food question is
receiving so much attention.
81 eat what can get" This would
be the answer OF many an unfortun-
ate but whether his case is worse
than that of him who can get what he
wants to eat, Is doubtful. Is the for
eener who comes to America and
changes his diet from black bread. a
few vegetables, apples and grapes to
an abundance of hlghly-seasoned
foods, meat fine white bread, pickles
and pie-is he fortunate, In the mat
ter Of diet? The statistics say, No.
II is peculiarly interesting fact that
the mortality from cancer Is much
higher among foreign-born Germans,
Irish and some other natlonalitles In
this country than among the Ameri.
can born OF those races. Cancer, In
the opinion OF the late DR.. Nicholas
Sem and other eminent authorities,
is disease OF over-lndulgence, and,
we believe Indulgence in flesh meat.
The Italians. Greeks, Bohemians and
others who continue TO live on the
simple diet of their home countries
show low rate OF death from these
diseases The forelgn.born Irish and
German peasants sooner fall victims
10 cancer and tuberculosis when they
adopt the extrayagant mixed diet OF
the average American family, because
they are more susceptible than those
who have become habituated, to Ger
tain degree to the more extrayagani
diet OF the new country.
Il has been said that we are ma
tion Of dyspeptics, and the cause II
easily found. Certainly the natura
way Is to eat what one likes. But
unfortunately, many, II not all Of MS
are not natural, in eating as in many
other things How, then, can we de
pend upon our inclinations TO tell n
what to eat? Nearly everybody nov
admits that intoxlcants are neces
sarily injurious yet many have de
sire for them. Shall they follow thu
| tn 10 Dali kuh
merely because they like II, or. shall
they not rather govern the appetite
by reason? And does not the SAM
argument apply. in some degree a
least to eating?
, This line OF inquiry leads to III
question, what shall we eat TO 50
cure the greatest enjoyment Of life
What shall we eat to enjoy the great
est degree OF health, the most yigol
Gus, happy and useful life?
These questions cannot be answere
finally by laboratory investigation
alone. Only actual test Of the effect
OF foods with careful allowance 70
- -neTsanal- -faGLnra- md -Yalr.ying a9nol
NAL conditions can lead TO wise cor
| tluhlbnhs anu III my hNAN alNiNl'
shall give the result OF my own e,
periments.
Why do you eat? Because
like to eat II is one OF the pleasure
> OF life" This will be your answer
II You are an average reader II nc
you are abnormal. To be a good MAJ
one must first be a good animal, an
the first requirement in good anima
Is 20 be a good feeder.
II is a wel-established principle 4
psy chology that we do best what W
10 unconsciously. What must becOm
OF a man who is so conscious OF hi
digestion that he must take so man
chews for each mouthful and eat Gel
tain prescribed foods? Is II not POI
sible that he may find II necessary I
lie awake at night TO see that II
heart beats the right number 60 tn
minute?
Il is commonly said that If a ma
has good stomach he doesn't hno'
that he has stomach, that 50 500
as he finds ont that his food digest
there Is indigestion. How often "
hear a man say, 81 wish | could ei
anything. Just as ! used to eat, will
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