BE MODERATE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIII, Issue 8678, 2 October 1913, Page 6

BE MODERATE.

Everyone who can afford it-— or," Ist «s say, everyone who is willing to render society service in return—should be well nourished. This does not mean to the point of plethora. Nor does it mean "getting-up hungry from the table," which our extremist friends promulgate as the be-all and the end-all ■ of dietetic (philosophy; for chronic under-feeding is almost as pernicious as perpetual gorging; almost—but not. quite—for the • Gorge Route leads to the undertaker's by the most direct road. But, other things being equal, the moderate eater who gets up from the table feeling that the last word has not jet been said to his stomach, will get up for a good many years longer than the appreciative man who. has backed his plumply packed food receptacle up against the wall of his abdominal cavity and.made it cry "Hold—enough !" ,-By carrying oiit this: principle; the i clerk or business man of sedentary habits can accurately gauge just about . how. much more liberal he ought to be to his hunger when the results of deep breathing, hard tramping; and the out > of doors of vacation time calls across the wastes of his famished cells. In. approaching those mosques of prejudice—vegetarianism, animalism, fruit, nut, and breakfast foodarianism we ad-

vance with trepidation, hat under one arm, shoes under the other; for here we tread on dangerous ground. There is, nothing the dyed-in-the-wool faddist so 'firmly believes as in the accuracy of his ,diet judgment—unless it be the fallacy of yours. .. Ax r