The Instinct of Eating.
All beings, except man, are governed by natural instinct, and every being with a stomach, except man, eats before sleep, and even tne human infant, guided by the same instinct, sticks frequently day and .night, and if its stomach is empty for any prolonged period it cries long and loud. Digestion requires no interval of rest, and if the amount of food during the twenty-four hours is m quantity and quality not beyond the physiological limit, it makes no hurtful difference to the stomach how few or how short are the intervals between eating; but it does make a vast difference m the weak and emaciated one's welfare to have a modicum of food m the stomach during the time of sleep, that instead of being consumed by bodily action it may during the interval improve the lowered system. Should the weakly, the emaciated and the sleepless nightly take a light lunch or meal of simple, nutritious food before going to bed, nine m ten of them would be thereby lifted into a better standard of health,—New York Ledger.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 4750, 15 March 1899, Page 1
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