The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-24
EATING AND HEALTH
Most People Dig Their Graves With Their Teeth, Says
 Horace Fletcher
By Rorace Fletcher.

The word "epicure" is rarely under | stood in the right meaning. It means
 eplcure is an advocate of the simple life for the purposes of best efficiency
 It IS the man who learns the good
 thing and uses it for his own nutrf- t1on The general impression is that the word has to do with those who devote their entire time to sampling things to eat, but this is not the case at all.
 The Danes, among whom I have been living this Summer, have ac-
 complished much / along epicurean
 of the practical economies which have
 been instituted in Denmark and which
 should be copied in other countries
 Denmark is the land of Jacob Riis,
 derson and of Canute. Shakespeare
 speaks in Hamlet of things rotten
 in Denmark but I found the people
 far advanced in private and social
 life.
 There are about two million inha-
 nrants and of these about a half
 a very fine school system among the
 farmers. Education is brought to
 their doors by system resembling
 country; that is, the schools are dis
 tributed so that the farmer is in close
 touch with them.
 There is great system of coZop-
 eration among the farmers. They work together in cultivating their pro- ducts and in getting them to market.
 The farmer who has one egg to put
 on the market has the same chance 1000.
 This system of cooperation has led
 to an increase of from Is to IS per cent in ISe value of the products above that o1<any other country The Danes have reclaimed over eighty sa1are miles of moors which were ut terly useless before.
 The Danes take care of the children. They do not allow any child to es- cape over there, whether he be of 1y supervision and care, no matter whose child it is. The result of this protection of the young is that the country is almost entirely without crime.
 No children are allowed to go to waste simply because their parents cannot Or will not care for them. The Danes recognize children as being one of the resources of the country, and so are careful to rear them to be eff hciept and capable. It is policy or AE.de economy and a remarkably {. o1,stlG I suppose T must, however. say food. for food is the basis of true epfcureanism. Fletcherism has been tried in Denmark with good effects.
 It seems ridiculous that one person should: attempt to tell you how to eat If Edison were asked he might tell you something about electricity. You are not all electricians, and he would undoubtedly give you a great But you are all eaters. Food is the basis of true epieureanism. Natures foods were of the kind that necessi- tated chewing. There were no soft All of natures foods were of such shape that the nourishment had to be sucked or chewed out of them. In the primitive days people had all day to sit down and get the good out of food. There was no danger from lack of time in which to properly consume food. r.
 Consequently, men lived to a great age, unless they met death by vie- lence. The skulls which are found have all the teeth still in the head. able feature of prehistoric anthropo- logical remains is the excellence of the teeth found in the skulls, as com pared with the teeth of the school children of our own g1uttonous and carnivorous age.
 Then came modern cooking. The re- century we find ourselves without knowledge of how to overcome the of our luxury and wealth.
 We digest what we taste. Take a cube Of bread into your mouth It nas no taste at first. Then the saliva of the mouth begins to change the | starch into sugar and it tastes sweet. The stomach must be prepared to di- | yest the food before it is swallowed. | 1t is not true of~Fletcherism that it ] takes longer to eat than before. The | same amount of time should be spent | on a meal; say twenty minutes to | half an hour The only difference | will be in the amount of food con ] sumed. Only one-third to one-half he usual amount is needed.
 Dr. Cannon's Investigations of the 1 process of digestion with the x-ray | show interesting facts. Cats were us- | ed as the subjects, but anti-vivisec- | .ionists need have no fear that they l were made to suffer. On the con | ,rary, they enjoyed the experiment | immensely.
 Food was stained so as to be vis- | ble inside the body. The whole pro- | cess was shown, how the food moves | around in the stomach and is picked | lp and sent into the blood.
 As long as the cat is content ana ourring the digestion goes on with | rhythmic regularity of motion, but | ,orment the cat, and make it angry, | md at once the process stops and he food becomes a dead load on the 1 stomach.
 There is a. tired feeling which is the .esult of autotoxication resulting when similar conditions exist in the hu- nan body.
 ean manner you can turn yourseH oose in any field of activity and be 
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