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HINTS FOR THE WELL.
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Always rest before and after a hearty meal.
Do not eat too much. Do not eat late at night.
Food, especially bread, should never be eaten hot.
Children should never be dressed in tight clothes.
Never sit in a damp or chilly room without a fire.
Supper just before going to bed is highly injurious.
Never enter a room where a person is sick with an infectious disease with an
empty stomach.
When sick, send for a good physician, and as you value your health and life,
have nothing to do with quacks.
The condiments, pepper, ginger, etc., are less injurious in summer. Fat beef,
bacon, and hearty food may be eaten more freely in winter.
Let the amount of the meal bear some relation to future needs as well as present
appetite; but it is better to carry an extra pound in your pocket than in your
stomach.
Eat something within an hour after rising, especially if obliged to labor or
study; but avoid both these before breakfast if possible, and particularly
exposure to malaria or contagion.
Bad cooking may spoil good food. Pork, if eaten at all, should be thoroughly
cooked. Avoid frying meat; boil, roast or broil it, beginning with a high heat;
for soups begin lukewarm.
A small quantity of plain, nourishing soup is a wholesome first course at
dinner. Rich soups are injurious to persons of weak digestion, and a large
quantity of liquid food is not beneficial to adults.
Three full meals daily are customary, but the number, the relative quantity and
quality, and the intervals between them, are largely matters of opinion, habit
and convenience; regularity is the important thing.
Exercise before breakfast should be very light, and it is better to take a
cracker or some trifle before going out, especially in a miasmatic climate.
Early breakfasts are a necessity to the young and growing.
Remember that when the stomach is sour after eating, the food is actually
rotting--that is a nauseating word but it expresses the absolute facts in the
case--and it means that some of the rules above given have been violated.
Eat in pure air and in pleasant company; light conversation and gentle exercise
promote digestion, but hard work of any kind retards it. Avoid severe bodily or
mental labor just before and for two hours after a full meal.
Most people drink too much and too fast. A small quantity of water sipped slowly
satisfies thirst as well as a pailful swallowed at a draught.
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