The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-03-26
the remnant is removed by a


wasteful expenditure of vitality, and,
clogging the bowels, becomes source
of poisoning to the entire system by
absorption into the blood of the fer
mented refuse, putting an undue strain
upon the liver whose duty it is to de-
stroy poisonous matter absorbed from
the alimentary tube into the blood,
overtaxing the kidneys, whose duty it
Is to eliminate certain poisons, bath
ing the brain in poisoned blood, thus
dulling the wits, producing bilious
headache, making the subject irritable
and therefore easily worried and de-
veloping a state of mind which reacts
upon the body, intensifying all these
abnormal physical and mental condi-
tions-and hence the extreme absurd
ity. to anyone who is properly ground
ed in physiology and psychology, of
tina. malicious half truth, Eat any
thing, so long as you think right a
doc> rine which is no more justifiable
than it would be to say, Think any
thing so long as you eat right, for
your thinking is determined by your
eating" (Which is part of the TRUTH.
We cat too much because we eat too
fast. If the nutritive system, con-
trolled by the mind, is in good con-
dition, the mind positive, yet placid
and hopeful and the mechanism of the
body normal, the food is well digested,
the waste freely eliminated, and flesh
maintained; perhaps an excess is
stored, if the food contains much
starch with the necessary amount of
the other food elements. But if the
opposite mental condition exists, fear,
constant irritation, the food is not
properly digested, and much vitality
is consumed in neutralizing poisons
and removing superfiuous waste food.
who is sympathetic enough to be a
successful politician. His mind is or
dinarily so easy and he eats so leisure
ly and cheerfully, that his digestion is
always good, and when he overeats
seriously diarrhoea follows naturally,
9nd at 80 the signs of auto-intoyica-
ton are less obvious than in many
lean men half his age, but he will not
see 70 unless he reduces 80 pounds,
soon.
Suppose that food were conveyed to
the stomach by chute, how could
one feel when he had enough? Only
10y the sense of pressure or oppres-
sion. If food is eaten very slowly, that
is, naturally, there is a registry on the
nervous system that causes the flow
of just the right secretions to digest
it and a sense of satisfaction comes
as the amount the system actually re-
quires il! ingested. But suppose one
must catch train or hurry back to
business? Then one must use the
chute, in tae quick lunch room. If
the mind is more on the danger of
missing the train or of not being able
to write all the letters-yorI are pre-
pairing for the hospital, or the SAM
tarium, if the ha;ait is long continued.
Eating is delightful! But; to enjoy
it you must have H. good oil crust of
bread, and-yes, a uttlo peanut but
ter, not to make it side down easier
LII lnoI 10 "lldI yOu uHu "Cpll LING
the man who doesn't often enjoy a
good glass of whisky, because he can't
get it often, you wish your throat
was a mile long" You want with
your delicious crust fair spreading
of the best sauce, real apE etite, not
that gnawing, "all-gone" sensa lion that
results from overeating but tAe gen.
uine, old-time, schoolboy Appetite, and
you will never really enjoy your work
or your play again till you get. that
kind of appetite.
How? To begin with learn to cat
only two square meals" as advises
in the preceding article. RooseveltiaE
sport is good, even in homeopathic
dose. Eat as few things at time as
the present state of civilization will
permit, and let it be largely live, that
is, uncooked food. And eat what you
eat. Don't chute it, Taste it. Keep
every mouthful in the mouth as long
as you can, even if it is soup or milk,
but the harder and dryer the food is,
the better can you comply with this
rule.
Now l have used my space for the
treatment of leanness and 1 haven't
said a word about what to eat to grow
fat. 1t is useless to eat the right food
if you don't eat right and think right,
and water, air. and exercise right
Fat makes fat The Eskimo hasn't
brains enough nor business enough to
worry, and he eats fat and grows fat
Fat is produced in the system from
other food, but if a certain amount of
fat is supplied, it is directly assim-
Hated, and saves digestive work. In
living on proteid only, as meat, one
makes the needed fat from that, but
the product produces severe
strain on the kidneys, auto-intoxica-
ton is encouraged, and rheumatism,
Bright's disease, or other disease due
to kidney failure (heart failure, per-
haps), must in time, ensue. Fat can
more easily be made from the car
bohydrates, starch foods, bread, ba-
nanas, potatoes, etc., and fruit sugars,
prunes, figs, dates, etc., but oil is
worth about two and half times as
much for heat and fat, and if a little
more than the system can use is taken
it does little harm, but great good in
facilitating bowel action. Nuts, the
chief natural food, contain, on the
average, SO per cent. fat and we shall
yet learn the sad mistake of the race
in substituting so much starch, es-
pecially in fine white bread, for fat
and fruit sugar (not cane sugar.. If
your staple diet is not largely nuts,
take spoonful of vegetable fat with
a glass of hot water or cocoa an hour
before the morning and evening meal
fat coats other foods and interferes