The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1915-03-17
Eat Only One Meal
Day For Health
Writer in New York Paper Sug-
gests That Humanity is Fat
ing Too Much

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many ailments. Thin people are
prone to eat too often and feshy
people too much at a time. If
each class would adopt the habit
Of the other it would not be so
bad.
Interest in food matters has
brought about a remarkable
transformation in the American
dietary in recent years. We are
more careful about the foods we
buy; we have learned to examine
labels more cautiously, to de-
mand what we want and not ac-
cept substitutes of "just as
good" foods. AS a rule, we are
more moderate in our meals. But
there is still room for improve
ment.
People not handicapped by
obesity are learning that up to
a certain limit the less often
they eat the better. Many suf-
ferers from stomach complaints
have found complete cure SIM
ply by adopting the two-meals-
a-day system. Others who have
restricted themselves to one
meal a day have obtained even
more remarkable results.
1t is my opinion that one meal
a day is enough for all except
those inclined to accumulate
flesh too rapidly. Such persons
usually find frequent eating ben
eficial, provided the meals con-
sist of the mountaineering foods.
The only reason for advising the
feshy person to eat often is that
it impairs his appetite and pre-
vents the assimilative organs
from converting the food into
fatty tissue.
Once a person becomes accus-
toned to cutting down the num-
Der of meals it is hard to induce
him to return to the old three
meals-a-day system. He finds
that he enjoys one or two meals
far better than the greater num-
Der, and that he has better ap-
petite than he ever dreamed of
having.
One does not know how good
food can taste until he has re-
stricted his diet in this manner
for awhile. There returns a rel
ish to the foods not experienced
since childhood. And dietarians
agree that food benefits us in
proportion to the relish we find
in it. The better food tastes the
more good it does us. The ex-
ception holds again for the over
corpulent person whose appetite
is generally too good and needs
curling.
There should never be rea-
son, for politeness' sake or 9TH
erwise, for eating against your
desires. If your hostess puts be-
fore you a salad-some inven-
ton of her own-that is repel-
liant conglomeration, as often is
the case. do not eat it and say
it is delicious, merely to numor
her vanity. By such credit you
are doing both yourself and her
a harm.
Eat only when you are hun
CRY and then only that which
pleases your appetite. He who
eats to keep from getting hun
CRY cheats himself of half the
enjoyment of life, and is in truth
digging his grave with his teeth.
Nibbling between meals is a
pernicious habit that is the chief
cause of indigestion and loss of
appetite. Here is the main harm
of the saloon buffet lunch.
It is to be hoped that the ten
dency of some of our more imi-
tative classes to copy the Eng
lish custom of afternoon teas
will not lead to a reaction in our
improved method Of living. If
we do, it is sure to prove most
disastrous. In the present race
Of English we behold only those
who have proved strong enough
to survive their tea and ale.
The English eat from five to
seven meals a day. And we have
seen that in athletic and other
contests the Englishmen is 60
ing back. Tests show that the
English soldier is smaller Of sta
tute than formerly, and not cap
able of anything like his old
time endurance. The extent Of
ill-health in England is appal-
ling. Dyspepsia and govt flourish