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

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FOOD FOR NURSING MOTHERS.

accustomed, as oat-meal porridge, or oat-meal cake,
with milk, or a diet of fish, and pearl barley, or pea
soup. Or perhaps his restlessness comes from inactivity
of the bowels: if so, he needs fruits, vegetables, unbolted wheat bread, &c., with care to keep his mind at
ease, and to have only such company as is soothing
and agreeable.
Or perhaps his irritability arises from the use of too
much meat and other phosphatic food: if so, keep him
on a diet in which the phosphates are deficient, as rice,
flour bread and butter, &c., with other food adapted
to his other conditions and habits. But that a regard
to these different conditions, and an adaptation of food
to conform to them, will very much contribute to comfort and happiness in the declining years of life, there
is not a shadow of doubt.
Food for Children.
Is your nursing babe, eight months old, feeble and
inactive, its teeth coming through the gums already
black and defective, and its soft, flabby flesh indicating
a want of muscular fibre? - change your own food at
once, and give up butter, and fine flour, and cakes, and
puddings with sweet sauce, and take instead beefsteak,
oat-meal or barley porridge, with milk and unbolted
wheat bread, grits, pea soup, &c., which abound in
phosphates and nitrates, and in one week you shall see
an improvement in the condition of the child; but if
your own health will not admit of such a change, wean