The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-01-16

more easily than entire wheat four
bread, toasted white bread without
butter) being a common diet for In
valids; yet cornmeal bread, which is
almost pure proteid. - easily d.
gested.
1t is admitted that, bonn the scien-
tific viewpoint, the Chinese are the
best fed people in the world. Only
their mind-dwarfing system of educa-
ton has prevented their dominating
the world. The japanese. living large
ly on a monodiet of rice, with better
mental conditions, bid fair to become
a ruling race. The Scotch, living
largely on oatmeal, have won distinc-
ton in science, invention and philos-
ophy for centuries. The worlds mas
terpieces originate never in the ban
quet hall, but often in the garnet, fed
by dry crusts.
During the past IL months l have
eaten almost exclusively but one ar
ticle at a meal-rice, whole-wheat
bread, peanuts, bananas, beans, pota-
toes baked, apples, and, as rule.
nuts at noon and fruit in the evening
my regular diet-and have enjoyed
perfect health and increased eff
| cheney.
The human system has developed .
wonderful power of adaptation to en-
vironment, food included. Evolution
has produced in man an inhabitant of
| all climates, capable Of subsisting on
great variety of foods. The diet OF the
| average American Is not uniform
one, but a continually changing diet.
This is true not of the traveller only
who may lunch in Chicago and dine in
Kalamazoo, but equally Of the society
woman who may dine at home to-day
| and tomorrow at the church, and OF
the business man or woman who eats
at a restaurant or hotel. The only
system the average person has In eat
ing is that of having no system, COM
paratively speaking.
II, however, one has long been In
the habit of drinking a cup or two OF
coffee in the morning, for instance.
the dropping of that stimulant will
cause, for awhile, the same incon-
venience that the habitual user OF In
toxicants finds on disseminating his
daily two or three glasses OF beer,
wine or whisky, or that the smoker
finds for time after he stops smok.
ing.
| l often hear people say they are
convinced that coffee, for instance
is injurious, but when they tried
to leave OF using 1t, they SUI
fered from nervous headache so much
that they were obliged to resume its
use to be in fit condition for theil
work. Persons who have tried to de-
without meat often conclude that they
are the better for eating it, because
they do not feel so well when theJ
discontinue it-for a few days.
Eating or drinking any particular
food or drink becomes in time habit
and even though it may be injurious
1t is hard to discontinue 1t. Even thu
substitution Of a better habit is irk
some.
Natures way is to change gradually
as we see in the weaving of the young
as we may see when at times the foo
of our domestic animals is changed.
Suppose, for instance, that you de
eide to discontinue the use of coffee
, mix with the coffee onefourth cerea
, | coffee for the first week or two, mex
, one-half, then three-fourths, and finall
: use pure cereal coffee, which may b
: continued as a substitute drink Q
: not.
: In living on one article of diet, eve
g milk, or wheat, or fruits, which ma
+ supply every element of material nj
triton needed by the system, there
4 craving for something else for
n time. 1t does not necessarily folio
o that something else 10 really needles
O but only that the habit of eating MOI
: than one thing is calling for satisfa
v ton. 1t is well known that there is
. crying demand for food during ii
r. first few days of fast, but that aft
the fourth day there may be no ca
# for food for 80 days or more.
e In adopting a complete new diet, IL
If law of gradual change applies as
e dealing with single article, like &C
t. fee. The manner of effecting Il
u change, in detail, should be dete
re mined by age, temperament, and 9th
a. particulars The longer the habit hi
ct been established the more gradu
rs should lie the change. person
n nervous temperament should chant
s. more slowly than phelgmatic pers'
d. of iron will.
lg Occasionally after one has becor
re established in the better way and
n ing fully convinced that the chan
ne has proved beneficial, an overwhel
It, ing desire will take possessi
,r- of one to return, temporarily,
so the old way. / believe 1t Is be
III in such cases. to yield, for one me
~ - evan for a dav mr. two Coffee do