Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1875 — Hearty Breakfasts. [ARTICLE]

Hearty Breakfasts.

In a large majority of cases it will be found that the best and healthiest meal of the day slum Id be eaten in the morning. If the closing repast-rof the day has not beeu eaten too late, or has not been excessive in quantity or indigestible in quantity 7 , the stomach will be rested and active in the morning after the individual lias enjoyed a cool bath. The stomach will then respond quickly with the necessary gastric juice for the solution of food, and, if a fair amount of exercise is taken during the day, a large mass of food will be assimilated and converted into blood and tissue. AYith a good, substantial breakfast no great amount of food will be re-* ouired during the remainder of the day. One further meal will be ample, and that might better lie taken at from two to three o’clock in the afternoon than at any period, if business engagements only permitted it. The breakfast may be made from any kind ot wholesome food, and the fewer kinds the better. Tlie dinner should be light and readily digested, if sound sleep is desired and strong appetite and perfect powers of digestion next day. If hunger comes, » bawl of s.vicw mvtk r and well-cooked mush of Indian meal, or Other uni Milted grain, will allay it, and will digest quickly. One 44 square meal” in every tweqty-four hours is all that can be taken care of by many weak stomachs, and more than this is an excess and induces headache, nausea and distress. If dinners were abandoned, especially late and heavy dinners, myriads of dyspeptics would be cured, but under the exigencies of city life a late dinner cannot be well avoided. This need not be the tremendous meal it is customary to make it if the breakfast be substantial and nutritious, and' not a thing of slops and biscuits, as it tpo often is.— Journal of Health.