Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Eat Food Slowly. [ARTICLE]

Eat Food Slowly.

Eat all food slowly. Digestion will not begin tili the temperature of the food has been raised by the heat of the stomach to 98 degrees. Hence, the more heat that can be imparted to it by slow mastication the better. The precipitation of a large quantity of cold food into the stomach by fast eating may, and often does, cause discomfort and indigestion, and every occasion of this kind results in a measurable injury to the digestive functions. Ice water drunk with cold food of course increases the mischief. Hot drinks—hot water, weak tea, coffee, chocolate, &c.—will, on the contrary, help to prevent it. But eat slowly, anyway.