Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — EXPERTS ADVICE OF EATING. [ARTICLE]

EXPERTS ADVICE OF EATING.

Authont -s Tell Us Wlial Foods Should Consume and Avoid. Sicero told us long ago that we should eat to live, not live to eat. and Prof. Gautier, of Paris, amplifies that wise pronouncement in the course ot a very interesting article on “How We Ought to Eat.” The professor is the sworn enemy of all culinary artifices the object of which is to st-injutate taste,excite the appetite and induce a man to eat without hunger and drink without thirst. These, he says, are prejudicial to the maintenance of health. When one has an appetite for plain bread,“ vegetables or meat unmodified by any seasoning then and then only can one be said to be really hungry. Another” paternal, recommendation which the professor makes is the old advice of *our gradmothers, that we should always leave the table with a slight sensation of .hunger not entirely appeased. It appears that we lose every day from $5 to 100 grams of albuminoids, corresponding to 420 or 5; grams of muscular flesh or analogous tissue. 1 An inhabitant of Paris, for instance, recuperates on the average to the extent of 102 or 103 grams a day. As a guide to what we should eat the professor tells us that the best meat is that of animals fattened on pasture land—beef and mutton. Then comes poultry and pork fed on products of a vegetable origin, whether grain or herbaceous. One should always avoid the flesh of fattened to excess on muscular flesh and also, to a certain extent. that of animals which are too voting. Veal is not good for either gouty or arthritic people. . It 4s not recommended for people with fragile, .'nl-üble, eruptive skin. Fish, excellent in itself when it is , quite fresh, is easy to digest, but it is tiot s;;.table to eczematous persons cr there who have any other skin disease. Black meats or game excite the kidneys, predispose to gravel, to he_ tatie congestions and to arterlo-sele-rosis- One may live absolutely without meat; one can not do without vegetable aliments. Eat with regularity and in accordance with the demahds of hunger such dishes as have always been regarded as Innocuous and remember that, as a rule, it is neither meats nor bouillon nor wine nor spices nor coffee which poipn us, but their abuse.