Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — Appetite and Digestion. [ARTICLE]

Appetite and Digestion.

Appetite is one thing, digestion clearly another. A man may feel ravenons, and consume large quantities of material containing the elements of nutriment, but be unable to appropriate the supply furnished, or, in other words, to nourish himself. It is not so with rest. Mere inaction may be secured without rest, and idleness without the restoration of energy. The faculty of recovery and recuperation after exercise is in direct proportion to the vitality of the organ rested. This faculty is not to be called into action by inactivity ! It follows that relief and recovery from the effects of what is improperly called

a overwork” cannot be obtained by simply “ going away for change ” or by indulgence in idleness. Health-seekers make a fatal error in trying to recover lost powers by mere diversion of energy.