Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — Spring Ailments. [ARTICLE]

Spring Ailments.

The remedy for spring diseases, by whatever name, is: Eat less. We do not mean that you shall starve yourself, or that you shall deny yourself whatever you like best, for, as a general rule, what you like best is best for you; you need not abandon the use of tea, or coffee, or meat, or anything else vou like, but simply eat leas of them. Eat all you did In winter, if you like, but take less in amount. Do not starve yourself, do not reduce the quantity of food to an amount which would scarcely keep a chicken alive, but make a beginning by not going to the table at all, unless you feel hungry; for if you once get there, you will begin to taste this and that and the other, by virtue of vinegar, cr mustard, or syrup, or cake, or something nice; thus a fictitious appetite is waked up, and before you know it you have eaten a hearty meal, to your own surprise, and perhaps that, or something else, of those at table with you. The second step toward the -effectual prevention of all spring diseases, Summer complaints, and the like, is: Diminish the amount of food consumed at each meal by one-fourth of each article, and to be practical, it is necessary to be specific ; if you have taken two cups of coffee, or tea, at a meal, take a cup and a half; if you have taken two biscuits, or slices of oread, take one and a half; if you have taken two spoonsful of rice, or horniny, or cracked wheat, or grits, or farina, take one and a half; if you have taken a certain or uncertain quantity of meat, diminish it by a quarter,.and keep on diminishing in proportion as the weather becomes warmer, until you arrive at the points of safety and health, and they are two: 1. Until you have no .unpleasant feeling of any kind after your meals. 2. Until you have not eaten so much at one meal, but that, when the next comes,you shall feel decidedly hungry. Supplies being thus effectually cut off, that is, the cause being first removed, Nature next proceeds to work off the surplus, as the .engineer does unwanted steam; and as soon as this surplus is got, rid of, we begin to improve; the appetites the strength, the health return by slow and safe degrees, and we at length declare we are as well as ever.— HaU'e Journal of Health.