Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1911 — Appetite Not a Necessity. [ARTICLE]

Appetite Not a Necessity.

Dr. John R. Murlin of New York, as- * slstant professor of physiology at the Cornell university medical college, in an article in the October number of the Journal of the Outdoor Life, compares the food we eat to the fuel used in furnishing steam and power for an engine. In selecting our food he says that We should eat enough to furnish energy for the day’s work, but that much more than this is not needed. He holds that the appetite is not a necessity for good digestion. “There is no fallacy of nutrition,” he says, “greater than that which supposes that a food cannot be digested and utilized without appetite.” Most of the food we eat, fully four-fifths, goes to supply energy for our every-day tasks, while less than one-fifth goes to supply building material There are many who recite their writings In the middle of the forum.