Show The Art of o Etin Eating g We Americans arc are often accused accused ac ac- ac- ac of oC living too fast to enjoy enjoy en en- joy the art of oC living And one of the areas in which we receive criticism is in the realm of oC din din- ing WHAT T IS wrong with the American American Am Am- er Can C'an diet and the American meal In the first place being the richest country in the world we have ha available to us more of oC the best foods than any other people on earth Thus we ought to have the best food of any people in the I world And most probably we do The gist of oC the complaint about American meals and American American American Am Am- eating habits is that we wedo wedo wedo do everything c in a hurry in a rush TilE THE BUSINESS man takes fifteen or twenty minutes for a aa aa aa a bite bile The business dinner or luncheon mixes tense business with meal In the home interruptions and haste too oCt often en meals In Asia and Europe and even evenin evenin evenin in the Ule Middle l East dining Is a slower vii ritual ual And American doctors tore and health experts agree that the slower system is the better o of the two IT WOULD be worth the sacrifice sac sac- sacrifice if we made the determined ed and persistent effort to take an hour or two hours off for our main meal during the day This may not always be possible but it would be possible most of the time for Cor most of oC us if we made enough effort in this direction I The e experts say we should be completely relaxed when we eat cat free free of oC tension strife or an an- This is a big order we may not always be able to achieve this degree of oC success every time but an effort will 11 achieve c some sonic measure of oC success success success suc suc- cess in this direction some improvement a Then when we begirt begin our m meals Is we should d cat eat slowly n leisurely and digest our fo I II I After Alter we should rely relax fo thirty minutes or perhaps lie down or nap DOES THIS TIllS sound as if you would be babying yourself Does Docs it sound lazy or indulgent We Americans push so hard many of oC us feel such attention on what we look upon as our own pleasure is orrens offensive v But the truth is that this will probably probably ably add years eals to your YOUl life bring you rou better health and make you more efficient and md effective in your working hours And you will enjoy dining far more mOle |