Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1904 — SAFE DIET RULE. [ARTICLE]

SAFE DIET RULE.

Eat the Smallest Amount of Food Ee* aential to Preserve Health. How shall one determine, then, bow much, food to eat? Too much'mystery has been thrown about this subject Let your sensations decide. It must be kept in mind that the entire function of digestion and assimilation is carried on without conscious supervision or concurrence. It should be entirely unfelt and unknown, says the Century, except by the feeling of bienetre which accompanies and follows Its normal accomplishment. Satiety is bad. It implies a sensation of fullness in the region of the stomach and that means that too much food has been taken. The exact correspondence In a healthy animal, between the appetite and Die amount of food required is extraordinary. As a rule, the meal, unless eaten very slowly, should come before the appetite is entirely satisfied, because a little time Is required for the outlying organs and tissues to feel the effects of the food that has beep digested. If too little has been taken It Is easy enough to make it up at the next meal, and the appetite will be only the better and the food more grateful. No one ever sorry for having voluntarily eaten too little, while millions every day repent having eaten too much. It has been said that the great lesson homeopathy taught the world was this: That whereas physicians had been in the habit of giving the patient the largest dose he could stand, they have been led to see that their purpose was better subserved by giving him the smallest dose that would produce the desired effect And so it is with food. Instead of eating, as most people unfortunately do, as much as they can, they should eat the smallest amount that will keep them In good health.