Evening star., 1932-11-28
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

/ like all habits, he should make reso-
luton to stop eating SO much, at the
very next special opportunity, say at
Christmas dinner
Then he will discover, what he al
ready knows, that overeating IS per-
nicious habit. which is justified by the
taste buds of the mouth, as well as by
the mind.
Why, one ought to eat heartilyl
Isn't that what children were told
to do? Eat your victuals child, and
say no more about It." said the old
fashioned mother, in the days before
the great god Spinach came into the
land
This, too has certain amount Of
common sense behind it. Nature sees
to it, in the average case. that the hui
man specimen will get enough food, by
making the desire for food paramount.
Then, since that might not be
enou i, she further saw to 1t that man
would cat enough, by making things
taste good"
Any one who, for any one Of num-
Der Of reasons, finds that food no longer
tastes good" to him, knows without
argument that there is no particular
! lGIIlDLdIiOIl W OfClCdl.
| Our solemn words OF warning here
will not be needed by such a person.
who easily resists the lure of sauces
and sweets
| For him the caress Of the salads and
cottage cheese and good milk. Even
| spinach, overrated as 1t Is, may have
some charm.
He who needs to pay heed to warning
| OF overindulgence at table, especially
| the holiday table, is he who has an
average good appetite and who has
never made any special study Of foods
in relation to the daily life of mankind.
| He will particularly need % keep in
mind two facts, that few city people
need as much food as they eat, and
| that those in so-called middle life"
need far less than they usually think
they do.
These are the two great stumbling
| blocks of the heavy feeders" men and
women who eat to repletion. especially
when the bill Of fare is particularly at
| tractive and the company good.
| Only one who has deliberately ex-
perimented along this line Is In posi-
tion to know Just how little food one
| NAV eat and still be in the best of
| health.
Perhaps the tables OF "calories" so
often printed have done great deal Of
| harm, in that they have led to over
eating after certain ages
| The necessary thing. one may feel, Is
| not that O certain theoretical number
of calories be incorporated daily into
| the human system, but rather that just
enough food be eaten to supply the
bodily and mental needs, whatever these
may be.
Mental workers of all kinds actually
need far less food, measured in any
way, than physical workers.
You will hear this disputed by office
workers who want to eat like farm
| hands, but science, common sense and
actual experimentation are against 'em.
| 1t Is nothing short of amazing how
| little food one may eat and yet remain
at the peak point in any given case.
To achieve this theoretical minimum,
| however, IS extremely difficult and
| there would seem to be no good reason
in the majority Of cases why it should
be attained, at least completely.
The common sense necessity Is sim
ply to quit eating when ones mind tells
1 one that one has had enough.
This is the law and the prophets In
everyday food lore If it were OBJ
served widely. especially at holiday
meals, there would be less illness any
where and more health everywhere.