When Not To Eat.
A good dinner at night is .necessary for those whose pleasure or work keeps them up very late, but for ordinary folk, who idin® at 6 or 7 and go to bed about' 10.3(), only a light, wholesome repast should be taken. 1 at the end of the day, when- muscles'and! nerves are more or less exhausted. »Al " tired stomach is a weak stomach" is a." golden rule to remember-. * Yet how often one hears people say: "I've been rushing! about all day and am tired to death; I must have a big meal to make up for it!' You may put the big meal into" the> stomach, but you cannot make the stomach digest it. A belief lives strong in the hearto and nvinds of the majority of, ■mankind, ■ including- person* of weak digestions, that a quick, brisk walk taken before a meal gete up an appetite and helps, yn& stomach to digest the food. Now, this is exactly what it doesn't do. Exercise spreads the blQod through ' 'the body. For the proper digestion of food the blood is needed in the stomach.—Family, Doctor.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 92
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189When Not To Eat. Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 92
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