Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — THE EVILS OF OVER-EATING. [ARTICLE]

THE EVILS OF OVER-EATING.

Unless Neutralized by Exercise High Feeding Is Extremely Harmful. I assert that it is the duty of the good housewife to keep down the appetite of her husband, writes the Rev. F. S. Root in the Ladies' Home Journal. Particularly is this ueeessary in the cases of well-to-do professional and business’* men. In the families of meehanics earning low wages such a warning is almost wholly unnecessary, but it may be said of most men in good circumstances that'they eat too freely of rich food. If men would begin careful and systematical physical culture in early youth and contiuue the practice through life, good health would be the result. Beyond the, ago of 40—at a period when so many are physically lazy—the suporior value of exercise is apparent; but ordinarily, this is just the time when the hygiene of athletics is neglected. There is no reason why a punching hag. rowing machine, pulley weights and other apparatus should he relegated t 6 college hoys and clerks. But having done a good deal of work in his time it is almost Impossible to persuade a business or professional man, turning forty, to give any sort of attention to physical culture if such training has been previously neglected. Hence, I say it la the duty of a woman to keep from her husbaud all rich cotnpounds that will ultimately ruin his digestion. High feeding is occasionally neutralized by hard exercise; but In the absence of the latter it is mischievous in the extreme. If your husband will stand the treatment, begin by switching off from the heavy breakfast of steak, hot rolls, potatoes, etc., and set before him eggs on toast, oatmeal and coffee.