WHAT TO EAT.
There are two natural divisions of food, to wit, vegetable and animal, and which appear to be suited not only to the habits of man, and the temperature of the climate he inhabits, but also to his anatomical formation. Food from the animal kingdom contains a gre&t amount of nourishment in small bulk, and is better adapted to cold climates and to labouring persons. That from the vegetable kingdom contains a small amount of nourishment in large bulk and is usually of a cooling quality, (though there are many stimulating articles to be met with in this kingdom) slightly increasing the heat of the body, and is better adapted to warm climates and to sedentary persons. In relation to diet, the first thing for a person to do is to select the kind which is adapted to his peculiar case ; if he be a student, a clerk, a writer, or of any occupation not requiring much exercise, he will require less animal and more vegetable food, because his system does not use it up so rapidly as a hard-working mechanic or a farmer, who needs a more stimulating diet.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1382, 25 May 1878, Page 17
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192WHAT TO EAT. Otago Witness, Issue 1382, 25 May 1878, Page 17
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