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Show Most People Don't Eat Too Much. Nearly every one eats too much, says Professor Russell II. Chittenden of the Sheffield scientific school of Yale, who has recently, conducted a series of ex-I ex-I perimcnts to determine if the average human being is not eating too much The average - man," he finds, eats from two to three times as much food as he needs to keep him in perfect Physical and mental health and vigor. If he will divide an ordinary meal into three meals he will be healthier and happier and never will have a 'grouch." Professor Chittenden is not the first to tell us this, and the effect of his statement is somewhat weakened by similar previous declarations by health, food manufacturers. One reason u-hv there is not a more impetuous rush to "the average man" into this new regimen regi-men of eating less is that every time be arbitrarily decreases the size of his breakfast or his luncheon he is most astonishly attacked by a distinct and very unpleasant feeling of hunger within with-in two or three hours afterward, and must nurse his inner woe for an hour or two before he can assuage it at the next meal. The-"average man" gets enough, and we have no reason for believing be-lieving that any but the gluttonous cat more than enough. There is an inward monitor in the average av-erage man. much more clearly defined than conscience, which tells him he has had enough; and to depart from the table with a number of wrinkles in an only partially inflated organ of digestion diges-tion is to invite genuine discomfort very soon afterward. There is much claptrap talk about "overeating;" The j most unnourished-looking. really suffering suf-fering specimens of humanity are those who either must or voluntarily do spend considerable gray matter in experiments ex-periments with their stomachs. The stalwart, healthy, rosy and robust are those who eat when they are hungry, who no more consider starch and pro-teids pro-teids and what is rgoing on inside them" than the lily of the field is con cerned in her 'raiment. They just "grow" that, way. There Is overeating, but no sensible man does it, and the average man is an average sensible man. We might "get along" on less food, but a man who would go about feeling uncomfortable because he is hungry, when there is no excuse, for it, has simply reached th-- level of the health cranlcs, of which there are too many. |