The Washington times., 1919-04-18
Learn to Eat Slowly and
Thoroughly
low Eating Solves One-Half the Problem of Health.

BAD TEETH
All three of these difficulties are intimately connected
with the great national defect OUR TOO RAPID EATING
ALI Americans are in hurry, even when they have
nothing in particular to do They talk in hurry walk in
q hurry, think in hurry, and EAT in hurry
The quick lunch American Invention, and one OF
the worst of all inventions.
The sensible Englishman, Frenchman who has but
few give eating devotes his time to eating
little He eats that little nationally and slowly.
The American does just the reverse he feels bound
to eat certain amount and if the time short he makes
for it with extra rapid eating boiling his food practically
whole
Our quick-luncheon counters and the great majority
of our midday restaurants simply gigantic manufac
turers Of dyspepsia and consumption
Consumption is developed by too rapid eating because
consumption is the result Of insufficient supply OF good
blood. And good blood can only be produced by food
properly chewed and thoroughly digested.
The national difficulty with defective teeth comes also
from rapid eating To keep the teeth IN condition we
require great deal Of chewing on dry and more or less
HARD substances
As we are in too much of hurry and too foolish to
eat slowly select in preference such food be
swallowed without chewing hence the national mania for
mashed thngs-hashes, soft pies cereals soaked in milk
soft white bread whence the best qualities the hard
ing outer shell Of the wheat rye have been eliminated
To keep horse in condition, you must give him hard
grain to chew, and possible certain amount of
the cob at intervals If you do not give him this he
insncvey chews his msnger to keep his teeth right So
much for the effect Of quick eating on the teeth
But we want yOu especially to think of eating slowly
in connection with that remarkable acton dyspepsia
Nothing makes life miserable nterferes widely
with the usefulness of the average American dyspepsia
Practically all Of very successful men, especially in
financial affairs have suffered from dyspepsia Jay Gould
was a victim of it. John D. Rockefeller has been made
miserable by it, it the production of half the patent
medicines, and employs Of all the doctors in
the United States.
Have you ever noticed the marvellous powers in the
muscles of the jaw? You certainly have, you have
bitten your tongue by accident you have the
the circus slide down inclined rope by his teeth
Almost every man has strength enough in his lower
jaw to lift a trunk of his weight. Why do
you suppose that great strength In the muscles Of the jaw
given to you? Do you think it given to you to
TALK with? No; it given to you to CHEW with
And have you studied your teeth and thought of
their extraordinary adaptation to their worthe front teeth
cut and the big broad back teeth to chew with? Do you
suppose those teeth given creature meant to live
on soft hashes or mush and milk?
For the sake Of your personal welfare just think for
moment about the process of digeSting food.
You know Of course that certain secretons juices of
the body attack the food dsintegrate it, and all
that is nutritious in it into life giving blood
Two great processes involved in digestion-they
are equally important
The first is the chewing of the food !
The second process after the food is swallowed
and taken into the stomach.
The average eats though he thought that our teeth
given to simply in order that might cut the food
pieces small enough to be swallowed. Whatever he
swallow without chewing he does chew at all Hence
national fondness for dyspepsia breeding hashes
chowders, etc.
The important thing about the process of chewing is
not the cutting into small pieces but the thorough mixture
of the food with the secrOns Of the savay glands in the
mouth.
you hungry, and you something good to eat
you say my mouth waters" It DOES water because
nature when you about to take in food strs up to
activity the salivary glands.
YOUR DUTY Is TO CHEW EVERY PARTICLE OF
FOOD OF WHATEVER KIND SOFT OR HARD NOT
ONLY UNTIL IT SHALL HAVE BEEN REDUCED ABSo-
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OF IT SHALL HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY MIXED
WITH THE sECRETIoNS OF THE sALIVARY GLANDS
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