The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1915-01-29
ONE MEAL
A Day Is Sufficient For
Everyone
Why Dig Your Grave With
Your Teeth
New York Mail)

Overeating is the cause of many all.
ments. Thin people are prone to eat
too often, and feshy people too much
at time. If each class would adopt
the habit of the other It would not
be 80 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
demand what we want and not accept
substitutes of 'tust-as-good" foods. AS
rule, we are more moderate in our
meals. But there is still room for i'm.
provement.
People not handicapped by obesity
are learning that up to a certain limit
the less often they eat the better
Many sufferers from stomach COM
plants have found complete cure sim
ply by adopting the two-meals-a.day
system. Others who have restricted
themselves to one meal day have
obtained even more remarkable re-
suits.
1t is my opinion that one meal a
clined TO accumulate flesh too rapidly
Such persons usually find frequent
eating beneficial, provided the meals
consist of the nonfattening foods. The
only reason for advising the feshy
person to eat often is that it impairs
his appetite and prevents the assimila-
tive organs from converting the food
into fatty tissue.
Once a person becomes accustomed
to cutting down the number of meals
it is hard to induce him to return to
the old three-meal-a-day system. He
finds that he enjoys one or two meals
for better than the greater number,
and that he has better appetite than
he ever dreamed of having.
One does not know how good food
can taste until he has restricted his
diet in this manner for while. There
returns relish to the foods not exper-
fenced since childhood. And dietar-
ians agree that food benefits US in
proportion to the relish we find in ii.
The better food tastes the more good
it does us. The exception holds again
for the overcorpulent person whose
appetite is generally too good and
needs curbing.
There should never be reason, for
politeness's sake or otherwise, for eat
ing against your desires. If your hos
tess put before you salad-some in
vention of her own-that is repel-
liant conglomeration, as often is the
case, do not eat 1t and say 1t is deli
cious, merely to humor her vanity. By
such deceit you are doing both your
self and her a harm.
Eat only when you are hungry and
then only that which pleases your ap-
petite. He who eats to keep from
getting hungry cheats himself of half
the enjoyment of life, and is, in truth,
digging his grave with his teeth. Nib
bling between meals is pernicious
habit that is the chief cause of indi-
gestion and loss of appetite. Here is
the main harm of the saloon buffet
/ lunch.
1t is to be hoped that the tendency
of some of our more initiative classes
to copy the English custom of after
noon teas will not lead to reaction
in our improved method of living. II
we do, it is sure to prove omst disas
trous. 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 sever
meals day. And we have seen thai
in athletic and other contests the Eng
lishman is going back. Tests show
that the English soldier is smaller o.
stature than formerly, and not capa
BILE of anything like his old-time en-
durance. The extent of i'll health il
England is appalling. Dyspepsia ant
gout flourish there as nowhere elst
in the world, and tuberculosis is reap
ing an awful harvest.
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