The philosophy of eating. By Albert J. Bellows, M.D.

FOOD WHICH PRODUCES STUPIDITY.

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A consideration of this classification will help us to
understand and correct many important errors in diet.
Every observing person has noticed that after a meal
in which the predominant articles were chiefly composed
of fat meat, fine flour, butter or sugar, he is stupid, or
sleepy, and indisposed to exercise either mind or muscle; and the reason is plain: as very little food for
either brain or muscle is found in either of the articles
named, and this torpor will be found to be in exact
proportion to the excess of these carbonates over their
proper proportion. And this is the inevitable consequence of separating the important principles which
God has joined together, and furnished in every article
of appropriate food, in the right proportions, as nourishment for every faculty.
If the fat meat had been eaten as it was made, mixed
with an appropriate amount of lean, and instead of the
flour, the bread had been made of meal from the whole
wheat as it was created, and milk had been substituted
for the butter, and the sugar taken as it was intended
to be taken, with the vegetables and delicious fruits,
mixed' with such other elements as the system required,
then the appetite might have been indulged to the fullest
extent, and no organs or faculties would have been oppressed and overburdened while others were not supplied, and every part of the system would have been
prepared, without stupor or sleepiness, to perform the
duties assigned it.
If we take our food as it is made, with the elements
mixed by Infinite Wisdom, we need use our judgment