New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-23
Endanger Your Health by Undertaking in Hot Weatner
Here Is an Expert Who Be-
lieves in Keeping Steam
Up in the Human
Boiler at All Times.

>ood is hungry also for microbes.
| ..roke ,be Hindus they eat no meat'
| o,,v Grain and not much of that. Hinhu
,o,ror will raise large family on a total
! oxrorditure OF about $40 year VI
oo,rse {, isn't 10 be expected that thls
,ou dict will much develop the allmentary
svstem. consequently. Hindus poorly Win
s,,nd disease. Smallpox. cholera-in TACT
49,. soyore disorder is nearly always rata
% tbem Travellers in India declare tha'
49,, .ao,ro, On r,,Ich as kick Hindu with
ou. r,sking his dying on your nanos
tt,ndus are short lived The only adVan-
,oo. this people has over other peoples Il
that they can live. or rather '"''''
no annarent inconvenience, on very Httie
food. ,.,. 49,
COMPARE, now, this fraii race WIN 'h'
baef-eatiny English and the hearty rel
mans. Germans consume. usually NV
meals a day. They breakfast at O ciocA'
dine at noon. take tea at O'CLOCK sup ~
o'clock. and lunch AT u O'Clock. EN-
land conquered India, and both hns'd""
and Germany have produced the srea'est
generals. admrals, statesmen. philosopneI'
and scientists Kitchener. Nelson, pIa"-
stone. Bismarck. Darwin, Spencer, Samuei
johnson. Hegel Schopenhauer' LOCKE
sbakespeare-thcse men We're the products'
not OF an economy. but Of prodigall'y IN
nutrition.
"The common argument that an eco
! nouics, diet conserves strength and ner-
VOLS energy is also falacious: Tor inc
more theoretically the digestive organs are
used within limits the stronger they grow
and the more energy can be produced By
them. Strength Is not hfeless com
modify. BY saving It We lose II: by eh-
nendjng Il we gain more. The most euef-
cetic men and women. those VINO are con-
stantlv using UP the most energy, nave
curiously the largest amount or IL. MI.
Roosevelt has probably expended AS much
energy TO his every square inch OF surface
as any man alive, yet we all know ne
seems constantly to have plenty on hano'
81 should like 10 ask this question OF
some of the learned 'economizers in nutr-
ton: II halvng the work Of an organ
doubles its strength by conserving hair OF
t,s energy. would we know twice more TX
We thought half as much? Or does energy
not drawn upon dry up as surely as does
IN. MILL Of the mother who has weaned
her child?'
"Rut doctor" I ventured, do you not
agree that the smallest amount Of food
that will serve TO maintain physical edui-
ubrium and 70 keep up health and strength
IS the ideal diet?"
"Most emphatically I do not" Dr. Hunt
ronlled. The lower animals eat to reple-
tion. when they can: 50 do children. and 80
should adults. Many children 10 not get
nearly enough OF proper food They are
colt 81
incs by eating sweets between meals. All
children ought 10 he fed every three or
four hours during the day. Most adults
require three meals day. and when tney
work late into the night they need four.
NO one should cat heartily. however
who does no physical work. Those with
sedentary occupations should exercise
regularly. for it's far pleasanter 10 work
and to eat than to loaf and 10 he unable
10 eat. That is why the poor are often
happier than the ricn.
"Our forefathcrs used 20 think. in Their
old fashioned way. thar an appetite was
mighty good thing 20 have. and exercises
were extoled because they Increased H.
Now we're told to discourage appetite to
the point Of desiring eventually about hait
OF what we at present desire: and the very
latest wrinkle is TO eat six or seven times
a dav 10 duh our troublesome appeute's
edge permanently"
what do you consider the best Diet" |
| Interrupted
None" was the reply. Tho best at
one time may be the worst at another.
mixed diet, with not too much meat, that
enables the system TO appropriate the right
proportions Of the food elements II needs.
| is the kind of diet natural to man"
should not even the elderly restrict
their Diet" ! oueried
I, ITO their appetite. yes: but they should
cat less only provided they desire less
They should aim also to stimulate their
appetites by open air exercise, as do young
persons BY so doing they might prolong
their vgor TO an advanced age"
Just one more question. doctor. Is there.
in your opinion, any basis whatever for
the belief that the more general use OF
automobiles is responsible for the great in
crease I'm cancer?'
DR. Hunt smiled: then spoke thought
fully: II really cannot say as TO that; but
I will say il is my belief that the one
cancer at the root of American III health
is neither too much food. nor too much
brain work it is too little physical work.
once We get away from this fad OF dietetic
asceticism and work hard. so that we can
eat as heartily as We used 70. then Will
our involution cease and our evolution re
commence"
81 wish | was twins, mother, then half
of me could do. lessons. and half gould
play. Punch.