The Detroit times., 1916-06-30
HOW TO EAT.
az DR.. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915, by Frank Crane)

III you knew now 10 eat you could Q)
feel better, enjoy life more, be happier,
CD have better health, (3) be more
efficient bodily and mentally, (4) be less
grossly physical and more preponderant-
ly mental, and 60 live longer and have
vigorous instead of decrepit old age.
Hence chew the following morsels of
wisdom slowly.
l.. The first rule of eating bears upon
the mind. Except you be converted To
the right idea you shall not get the
dement, you ought from eating. Get it
into your head, therefore, that eating is
not sport. The purpose of taking food
Is to maintain your forces at their maxi
mum efficiency. Eating is pleasurable.
but the art of life is to govern our pleas
ures intelligently, and not make then an
end
2. LET INTELLIGENCE AND NOT
APPETITE CONTROL. YOUR INTAKE
Or FOOD. Find out how many calories
you need TO keep you fit-any physician
can direct you-and take only the need
ed amount.
3. TEST YOUR DIET UPON YOUR
SELF. No two people are exactly alike.
NO general rule is hard and fast. Care
fully experiment and see how much fat.
protein, and carbohydrate you require.
Stick TO that.
4. DON'T EAT MORE THAN YOU
NEED TO keep you in efficiency The
superfluous is never without danger.
Most diseases come from clogging the
system with waste. The pancreas will
go on strike and you will get diabetes;
your kidneys, and enter nephritis; your
liver, and forty other ailments attack
you.
;. EAT SLOWLY. Don't bolt. no
matter how hungry. Chew thoroughly.
6. EAT PLENTY OF HARD FOODS
that have to be crushed by the teeth.
Take but little soft foods, mushes,
gruels, and the like. Mems teeth never
rotted until the invention of mush.
7. KEEP YOUR TEETH SOUND.
Cleanse them relgiously three times a
day. Visit your dentist twice a year.
whether you need it or not. Never keep
sore tooth: if il can't be fixed have it
out; you'd as we'll be steadily swallow
ing poison.
8. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER
L w
can get It. But not charged water, nor
mineral waters.
9. FAST REGULARLY. At least
once in seven days go without any food
at all, taking water only. Give your in
sides rest Never mind hunger, which
is no reliable sign you need food.
10. EAT NO MEAT. This is a coun-
sci Of perfection; if you can't stand it,
eat as little meat as possible. Meats have
no food values that cannot be obtained
in other foods in a form better adapted
for human consumption.
Il. TAKE NO ALCOHOLIC BEV-
ERAGE. And if you don't overload
your stomach, and don't eat flesh, you
will not want It,
II. REMEMBER THAT THE FEEL
INGS HAVE MUCH TO DO WITH d.
GESTION. Keep sweet. Don't eat
when worried or angry or grouchy. Con-
tentment is a good sauce. Laughter Is
better
Is. EAT NO FREE SUGAR, such as
candy, syrup, table sugar, etc. Take
sugar only in such combinations as ma
ture supplies.
IA. Foods are necessary not only TO
build up but to cleanse the body. Hence
EAT CLEANSING FOODS LIBERAL
[LY. Such are celery, lettuce. spinach.
beet greens, asparagus, radishes, string
beans and other vegetables.
Bear in mind that right living begins
in the INTELLECT; so find out what
and hew you should eat. Don't guess.
Don't take fool chances. Safety first.
And, secondly. right living is only Sc
cured by keeping the WILL in constant
control Of the appetite.
The COLLINS and glooms Of i'll health
stand around waiting to pounce on him
that does not believe this.
THE WAR PRESIDENT OF 1913.