Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-20

himself and be his judge, executioner, as the
case may be.
However, the general rule might proftaby be adopted
of always rising from the table with feeling that if the
worst to the worst could be capable OF slowing
away another portion of pie dish OF dessert. This
allows wide latitude for variation Let appetite tell
Everyone who afford tor, let us say everyone
who willing to render society service in returnshould
be well nourished This does not to the point of
plethora. Nor does it mean getting up hungry from
the table, which extremist friends promulgate as
the beall and the end-al of dieetic philosophy for
chronic undertaking is almost pernlclOus as per-
petua gorgng: almost-but not qulte-for the Gorge
Route leads to the undertaken by the most direct road
nua + ornef 4 tbat the 1ast word has
yet been said to his stomach, will get tor good
many years longer than the apprecatve man who has
backed his pumply packed food receptacle up against
the wall of his abdominal cavity and made it cry Hold
enough"
By carrying out this principle the clerk or business
man sedentary habits accurately gage just about
how much more liberal he ought to be to his hunger
when the results of deep breathing hard tampng and
the out of doors of vacation time call across the wastes
of his famished cells.
The husky red-faced clubman who is better to his
appetite than he is himself is much more likely to be
found dead in bed to shuttle off when running for
car than the chap who takes good OF
weak stomach; mainly because it will raise merry hal
leluiah If he preSurneS to abuse 1t.
That little Italian nobleman who lived to be nearly
hundred admirably illustrates this point. He survived
to hold Memorial Day at the graves of all the
wise doctors who assured him that his period Of soourn
in this vale of tears must because OF his weak digestive
those articles of diet that disagreed by mascatng his
food carefully and regulating his habits he became
almost a centenarlan.
A MOTHER factor in dietetics is that the stomach
has no teeth Whatever masticating is done has
to be done in the mouth While Mr. Fletchers theories
esoterc for by those of who have to work
for living he is mainly correct first because thorough
mastcation and the mixing of saliva with the food
very necessary processes of Digestion particularly
of starches and sugars The action of the alkaline d
gestve ferment of the saliva pyan) IS necessary be-
fore they shape to be further acted upon in the
lnteStlneS.
&c. if one carves his hurried way by sheer activity of
incisors-preservng his molars for atening out his
face, instead of grinding his ood-and then bolts the
chunks of food the instant they OF sWaoWabe size,
important element in starchy digestion has been
neglected Also the stomach being toothless, his meat
is not prepared properly to be acted by the gastric
juices and converted into peptones. And even though
he tries to make the amende honorable to his OF
starch by chewing gum, assisting the nsalivaon OF the
hastily swallowed material he does not overcome the
damage However, after due strenuous churnlng, the
food is passed by degrees into the small intestine,
where fermentation progresses more rapidly than
it did in the stomach
This is but the beginning of his "misery"-ony the
bolter doesn't associate headache loss OF appetite atu
lence, nervousness rheumatism, neuralgia, and all the
Protean manifestations of differentiation with insult
fcient mastication
VET it is. This doesn't necessarily that
must Fletcherize to achieve relief A safe. sound,
and conservative middle is best. Thorough
chewing does not imply, from digestive viewpoint,
that the food must be lquefed in the mouth and tasted
and tasted until the will be of the
of swallowing. Another thing. We have thirtysix
ieet OF intestine whose function it is to digest and APP
proprate to the lacteas the little ducts that
the digested material into the circulation converted
food products, and then get rid of the debris
They require bulk to functionate upon, just as
the kidneys require water We need shay" as badly
as horse. On concentrated diet Fletchenzed
to leave but minimum amount of work for the
intesnes, man, like horse would ego STALE GER
tain amount of work is needed by any organ If 1t
~ 1Ir1fhf food