Show HOW TO LIVE common sense comments Com menti on health happiness and longevity by GEORGE F DUTLER BUTLER A M M D copyright 1320 1920 by international press bureau HASTY EATING indigestion like the poor appears to be always with us and ana there Is very little doubt that this Is lal largely lly due to the hurried eating of oc ir bells followed immediately by some elli employment plo vinent that k occupies the whole attention and takes up all or nearly all of the physical en orgies sometimes the malady shows itself in excessive irritability a sure indication that nerve force has been exhausted the double draft in order to digest food and carry on the business has been more than nature could stand without being thrown out ot of gear in another case the person Is exceedingly dull as soon as he has a few minutes of leisure the mind seems a blank and can only move in its accustomed channels and aad then only when compelled this also is an indication of nervous exhaustion others will have decided pains in the stomach or a sense of weight as it if a heavy burden was inside others again will be able to eat nothing that will agree with them everything that is put inside the stomach ach is made the subject of a violent protest on the part of that organ and the person suffers tress in consequence others suffer from froin constant hunger they may eat nil all they can and teel feel hungry still if they feel satisfied for a little time the least unusual exertion brings on the hungry feeling and they can do no more until something is eaten scarcely any two persons are affected exactly in the same way the disordered condition manifesting itself according to temperament pe and occupation employments that call for mental work and those whose vl ioe scene of action lies iles indoors affect persons more seriously than those carried on in the open air and those which are merely mechanical ch and do not engage the mind all or nearly all of these difficulties of digestion might have never been known by the sufferers had they left their business behind them and rested a short time after eating instead of rushing off to work immediately after hastily swallowing their food nature does not do two things at a time and do both well as a rule everyone knows that when a force Is divided it Is weakened it if the meal were ivere eaten slowly without preoccupation of the mind and the stomach alloin allowed ed at least half an hours chance to get its work well undertaken before the nervous borce force Is turned in another direction patients suffering from dyspepsia would krould be few it does not so much matter what we eat as how we ive eat it while this is only partly true it certainly Is true that the most healthful food hurriedly eaten and immediately followed by work which engages the entire available physical and mental forces is much worse than a meal of poor food eaten leisurely and followed by an interval of rest the tendency of hasty downtown down town luncheons upon the health and morals of all ought to be pointed out with a view to impress on peoples minds the importance of devising some remedy for evils so great and so inevitable many business men take a hasty luncheon at noon to prevent the stomach becoming too empty or the system from too great exhaustion from the long iong interval beti between veen breakfast and the regular evening dinner the object is good and the philosophy of it is founded on true physiological reasons but the manner of the performance makes all the difference in the world A change from froin our hurried unsocial piggish bolting of food to order beauty deliberation and sociability of the table would increase tenfold our table pleasures and add indefinitely to our health LEARN HOW TO LIVE |