Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1915 — DIET FOR THE BRAIN-WORKER [ARTICLE]

DIET FOR THE BRAIN-WORKER

Should Be That Nourishing to the Whole Body, With Special Refers ence to Nervous System. A great deal has been said about the value of certain articles as brain food, and one of the pet theories of popular physiology has been that fish and other substances composed largely of phosphorus are the most appropriate diet for brain-workers. But modern science is emphasizing that the best food for the brain is that which nourishes the whole body, with special reference to the nervous system. Brain power is largely an expression through the nerves of bodily vitality. In discussing this point in a recent treatise. Dr. George M. Beard says that the diet of brain-workers should be of large variety, delicately served, abundantly nutritious, of which fresh meat should be a prominent coo stltuenL In vacations, or wherever it is desired to rest the brain, fish may, to a certain extent, take the place of meat. He says we should select those articles that are most agreeable to our individual tastes and so far as possible we should take our meal amid pleasant social surroundings. In great crises that call for unusual exertion we should rest the stomach, that for the time the brain may work the harder, but the deficiency of nutrition ought always to be supplied in the first interval of repose.