The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-03-27
A STROLL AFTER DINNER

1t Is natural TO rest 10r Wnue
after q hearty meal. But most OF US
lead far from natural lives. II We
captured, grew or even earned our
own food, it would stu be healthful
for US to dose after dinner or to stop.
look and listen, or to chin-chin about
nothing Of importance.
For young persons who work or
play hard or get reasonable amount
Of exercise every day, it Is healthful
to eat at bedtime, and to sleep while
digesting the late supper, provided
only wholesome foods are taken. In
fact a bedtime snack, say crackers.
bread, cookies or cake and milk, or
some fruit If you like, or q sandwich
or two, or Just bread and butter with
brown sugar on or Oft according TO
YOUR disposition and ambition. Is
nearly always advisable for people
who are not already overnouriShed.
Fattish readers may as well stop
here. We are leading up to sad news,
doubly sad, for 1t catches us good
natured ones coming and going. Or on
both the intake and the output. FOR
us no post-prandial repose. That way
lies corpulence, cardiovascular degen-
Grafton, apoplexy and whatnot. etuffy,
spurn that dessert and come on OUT
for q stroll.
There are some queer old LEGENDS
or traditions which we must neno
alarmingly at this point, In the usnt
| Of our newer knowledge OF physiology:
II anything breaks let Us hope " VIII
be some bad habits.
First, the one that keeps young peo-
ple out Of the water after meals.
Now that is as quaint as long.legged
red flannel underwear and Just a.
sensible. Broken down old bodies
with atheromatous arteries had bet
| ter remain on dry land and within
easy reach Of an ambulance after 2
big gorge, for it Is most inconveniens
| II ones lenticulo-striate artery lets go
when one Is playing porpoise.
OF course it IS better not to take
hearty meal just before you enter .
hard race or game or attempt any
strenuous performance. You'll get on
better II you take only . little quick
fuel. sugar Of one kind or another, 70
sustain your muscles. But there Is nc
good reason why normal young per-
sons should not 60 in swimming q
soon as they wish after . meal when
no strain on endurance Is involved.
One hundred years ago Beaumont
famous American psychologist, pub.
lished his Experiments and Obser-
yations on the Gastric Juice and the
Physiology Of Digestion"-Beanmon'
studied Alexis st. Martin, the Cana
dian with q trapdoor in his stomach
the result Of . gun shot-and among
other things Beaumont found tna'
gentle exercise facilitates the diges'
ton of food"
Gentle exercise, mind. Something
like q stroll after dinner.
Severe exercise, modern phystolo'
gists have found, delays digestion
Tests made On normal young men who
ran from one to four miles immedl'
ately after the meal have uniformly
shown this delay.
Frances Hillsbraudt and Nesyl n
Miles certainly women are achieving
distinction Ia medicine and allied -.
Iences these days. repoetoo Ia t0(
American Journal q PhyAology -
October that their studies sh0We<
that protracted moderate exercise doe
not interfere With digestion. On tn
contrary these authorities sugges
that such moderate exercise re&he'
improves digestion By stimulating
general metabolism and augmenttnl
al the bodily functions.
| So beware the after.dinner coma
old fellows.