The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-30

DON'T EAT so MUCH-There are many good reasons for this advice. First, you do not need to eat so much. on the contrary, you need quite the reverse. You will talk of the distress of your stomach; that you feel uncomfortable all over; you are nervous and fiidgety; sometimes you feel as if your legs would give way under you.
 Quit eating so much Keep your stomach and bowels under a constant pressure and they not only rebel but they convey to your blood. kidneys, liver. brain and nerve force, poisons that set everything grumbhng. You are victim of your own gluttony You love to eat and you overdO it.
 It is a fact that nearly all persons eat about three times as much as IS needed to keep them in good health and strength.
 Thomas Edison, the world famous electrician has done more to help the than nearly all the other men in the world who have been working in that line The telephone, the incandesecnt light, the photograph, the appliances of electric power to hundreds of use full interests and necessities to keep things moving, he has discovered, inn proved and adapted. But this man of wonderful work sticks to it con- tinually and for twice the number of hours that the ordinary worker does, and yet he consumes only one pound of food per day and night Withal, he more or a little less-and he retains his weight of 1855 pounds, or decreases it, at his will
 There Is a physician in Chicago, who is a very large man of 200 pounds. without surplus flesh. He frequently walks all the way down to his club no matter what the weather is. He IS the personification of ruddy health. He is wealthy and is fond of intelligent company and devoted to light athlet- ics. especially golf. That doctor rare- ly sets at the dining table. and when he does take such seat. he eats comparatively nothing His food is quantities of those
 These two rather remarkable lnstan- ces are offered to show what even large. strong and busy men can do and be happy and healthy on 10 per cent. of the food that most big men consume. Neither of them are cranks or faddists. Both are remarkably in- telligent and educated men. Both are masters in their calling. Of course, different callings demand greater or lesser quantity of food. But this is only to a comparative degree. Grow
  dren need a little more food to help their growth than they will after having attained full manhood and womanhood. They should be. and generally are, judiciously stinted, but tho average man or woman having mo- body to stint them, eat all they can and. instead of rising from the table satisfied. or perhaps little hungry, they will eat a full meal and then pile on the desserts and pastries that follow
 In 99 cases out of a hundred, that continuous over-eating is the cause of nearly all the ills of the flesh the peo- pie have coming to them-or, rather, to which they are going. From it comes constipation, biliousness, appen- dicitis, dyspepsia and horrid host of such enemies to health and happi- ness. Cut down your meals about one-half, thus cut down the expense of them in the same proportion-,hat. however, is the least Of the reason The degree to which you would enjoy life. physically and mentally, would be in a proportion incalculabie
 You will be astonished in a little while. how easy it is to quit eating % much, after you have tried it a while