Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-04-15

breathes country air, ana eats
strictly fresh" eggs, as because her
mind Is diverted. And so when am
asked for diet prescription that Will
increase the weight. ! feel disposed to
advise the patient, to eat the same
diet in another state (of mind and
be happy-and that without any In
clination to indorse the pernicious ad'
vice. Eat anything"
When all the nutritive functions are
performing their part naturally. ana
the proper food is supplied. In proper
amount, weight will not vary much
from the figures which long expert
ence OF insurance companies has
proved to accompany average health
conditions.
Oyer-eaJing Is tine commonest
cause OF starvation. II Is not what we
eat but what We assimilate that keeps
us In condition. The bony horse eats
as much as the sleek one, but his teeth
are bad and his oats are not properly
chewed. and his arteries are becoming
ossifled-or he may be worried by a
driver who lacks horse sense. for q
good horse is sensitive. The cattle
coming from Montana to Chicago
might be supplied with more than their
usual ration of hay, water and turnips,
but they would lose weight by worry
and this is not the place to advert to
the effects of consuming the poisons
produced In the blood and milk OF
animals seriously harassed, except to
remark, in passing. that where an in
FAINT is fed on the milk OF one COW.
exposed in city lot 10 worrying by
dogs and boys. the cause OF baby's
failure to do well on the neighbours
Jersey milk is often not suspected.
Microscopic examination OF the flesh
of animals much abused before reach
ing the slaughter house, shows the
wasteful effects of fear upon the It's
sues, and Il Is not alone the bite OF
the blue grass Niger" that is pois-
onous but the bite OF any enfuriated
animal. The mind controls all the
secretions: II is the real alchemist.
When the amount Of food eaten Is
greatly In excess of the body's require
ments, the remnant is removed by
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 1t is to de-
stroy poisonous matter absorbed from
the alimentary tube into the blood,
overtaxing the kidneys, whose duty 1t
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-
hence the extreme absurd.
ity, to anyone who is properly ground
ed in physiology and psychology, OF
that malicious half truth, Eat any
thing, so long as you think right"
doctrine which is no more justifiable
than II 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 eat too much because We eat too
fast. II 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
perhaps an excess Is
stored, II 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 polsons
and removing superf1uous waste food.
/ have in mind typical fat man, one
who is sympathetic enough TO- be
successful politician. His mind Is or
so easy and he eats so leisure
ly and cheerfully, that his digestion is
always good, and when he overeats
seriously diarrhoea follows naturally,
and at so the signs of auto-intoyica-
ton are less obvious than in many
lean men half his age, but he will not
see 20 unless he reduces so pounds.
soon.
Suppose that food were conveyed to