Wonders of Diet.

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1020, 9 December 1886, Page 3

Wonders of Diet.

The Roman soldiers, who built such wonderful roads and curried such a weight of armour that would crush the average farm hand, lived on ebarse brown bread and sour wine. They were temperate in diet, regular and constant in exercise. The Spanish peasant works every day and dances half the night, yet eats only his black bread, onion, and watermelon. The Symrna porter eats only a little fruit and some olives. Ho eats no beef, pork or mutton, yet ho walks off with his load of 300 pounds. The coolie fed on rice is more active and can endure more than the negro fed on fat meat. The heavy work of the world is not.clone by man who eat tho greatest quantity. The fastest and longest-winded horse is not the greatest eater. Moderation in diet seems to bo the prerequisite for endurance.