The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-03-26

ments, the remnant Is removed by a
wasteful expenditure of vitality, and,
clogging the bowels, becomes a source
of poisoning to the entire system by
absorption into the blood of the fer
rcented 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 state Of mind which reacts
upon the body. intensifying all these
abnormal physical and mental condi-
tions-and hence the extreme absurd.
tty, to anyone who is properly ground
ed in physiology and psychology, Of
that malicious half truth, Eat any,
thing, 50 long as you think right" q
doctrine which is no more justifable
than it would be to say, Think any,
thing so long as you eat right, for
your thinking is determined by yotir
eating" (which is part of the truth).
We eat 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 II the
opposite mental condition exists, fear,
constant irritation, the food is not
properly digested, and much vitality
is consumed in neutralizing poisons
and removing superfluous waste food.
I have in mind typical fat man, one
who ), is sympathetic enough to be q
successful politician. His mind is or.
dinarily so easy and he eats so leisure
]y and cheerfully, that his digestion is
always good, and when he overeats
seriously diarrhoea follows naturally,
@nd at so the, signs of auto-intoxica.
ton are less obvious than in many
lean men half his age, but be will not
see 20 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
ny the sense of pressure or oppres-
sion. If food is eaten very slowly, that
is, naturally, there is registry on the
nervous system that causes the flow
of just the right secretioHs 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 the quick lunch room. II
the mind ia more on the danger OF
missing the train or of not being able
to write all thu letters-you are pre-.
pairing for the hospital, or the SAM.
tarium, if the habit is long continued.
Eating is delightful! But to enjoy
1t you must have q good old crust OF
bread, and-yes, little peanut but.
ter. MOTTO make it side down easier,
for that is what you don't want. Like
the man who doesn't often enjoy a
good glass of whisky, because he can't
get 1t often, you wish your throat
was a mile long" You want with
your: delicious crust a fair spreading
Of the best sauce, real app2tite, not
that gnawing, "all-gone" sensation that
results from overeating but the gen
ufne, 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 advised
In the preceding article. Roosevelttan
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. -: =.
Nov I have used my space for the
treatment Of leanness and F haven't
said q word about what to eat to grow
fat. 1t Is useless to eat the right food
II 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 a 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 a 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
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