Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-02-05
EAT LEssn1vE IoNaER.
"Never Eat Quite as Much as You
Think You Want"

Think You Want"
The Romans said: Eat, drink
and be merry, for tomorrow you
die" And their banquets quite
equalled those of the American mill
lionaire OF this twentieth B century.
They ate, and the Roman empire
died. But we OF America choose to
live. and live long, and to. live we'll
And SO the maxim Of to-diy is, "Eat
less, and be merry anyhog.' .
Why eat less? Simply because. .as
nation. we eat too much. Thirty
years ago 8 Q per cent of the diet was
meat. To-day 1t has diminished to
one-third.
Never eat quite as much as you
think YOU want" is the continual
advice OF a learned physician to the
young man who would gladly be a
Roman IL he could.
The person who leads physically
active life needs plenty of energy
building food. because each hour he
uses up energy and nature demands
that which will create more energy.
He doesn't require stimulants, most
especially not in excess, because the
artificial excitement always has an
untoward reacting. 8ut active ,.er-
sons must eat heartily tc keep the
body machinery well fed.
Persons whose work Is dependent
on mental effort, on nerve and tact,
ought not to keep the engine at fire
heat. When the days work is end
ed then is the demand for the food
to rebuild-for the rest or recrea-
ton to relax.
An individual who returns home
too tired to eat depriyes the body OF
Its need, and also overtaxes the
brain. for when the blood has work
to do In the stomach 1t leaves the
brain. and the brain becomes less
alert, and, as matter of course in
active. Sleeplessness at night is Of
ten overcome by trifing night
lunch.
More and more among leaders In
life is the question OF nutrition re-
cetving attention. Rheumatic peo-
pie learn to. do away with a meat
diet r.6solutely. So great is the re-
lief that sweets and other question
able, but mnch-liked, articles of diet
soon follow. And while the prohibi-
ton and restrictions sound hard of
practice, persons do 1t daily, and al
ways staydethatho
ways say that they don't care. Oddly,
1t is the women who are more likely
to complain in the beginning.
Eat to i've" 1t Is said that cow
boys and men leading rough life
have the strongest digestion, despite
the varying quality OF their fare.
Life, generally, is SO luxurious to-
day that even the digestive organs
are saved unnecessary labor, and
predigested foodstuffs, minced GRO
quettes, and so forth, lessen daily
the working power of these organs,
making them more liable to diseased
conditions. And the hospital dis
pensaries say that diseased condi-
tions increase, and, slight disturb
ances are often the beginning of
more serious troubles. "I did not
think that you could afford to have
appendicitis! one person exclaimed
to another. ~
1t may seem a long stretch to say
the food question can effect interna-
,ional politics. Yet, because the Ia
iloring classes OF other nations eat
less, their living is cheaper, and they
work without sacrifice for a lower
wage than our republican born men.
The American laborer is fond OF
things fried and OF pies. He eats
heavily during the noon hour, not
stopping to realize that he has fed
his furnace with non-combustible
stuff, that brings unnecessary effort
upon the digestive system. The for
eigner at his side eats more sensibly
somehow the older nations have
learned and not taught--and the for
eigner is more "fit," more contented,
He is teachable, and his work is
good. He costs less money. and,
therefore, the international problem.
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