PYSCHOLOGY OF BREAKFAST

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3776, 22 October 1907, Page 4

PYSCHOLOGY OF BREAKFAST

Do we overeat at breakfast ti me • Dr. Emil Reich thinks we do, as he showed in his remarks in opening an exhibition of summer foods and drinks in London last month.

“ What is the Pmglish breakfast ?” asked Dr. Reich. “It is an attempt to get rid of a man for the rest of the day.” I might tell you that in the morning no man can eat —unless artificially habituated to the custom —such breakfasts as are provided for him. “English women have introduced such a breakfast to get rid of the man by filling him with pies, cutlets, eggs, bacon and such heavy stuffs which he cannot digest until 4 in the afternoon. Thus die is left free to go shopping and to spend the money which the man cannot afford. This is the psychology of the English breakfast. ’ ’

But Dr Reich’s opinion is not ttie general opinion of medical dietists. “He is quite right in one respect,” said one well known dietist to the “Daily Mirror.” “ It is a huge mistake to overload the stomach and tax the digestion the first thing in the morning. On the other hand, I certainly do not agree with a ‘ finick3 r ’ meal of coffee and a hot roll. The ideal breakfast for a healthy man consists of porridge, a couple of eggs, with or without beacon, and a little toast and marmalade to finish up with.” Americans are not great breakfast eaters. An average American breakfast consists of an orange, or a slice of melon, a little fish or an egg, and a buckwheat cake and syrup, with coffee and, of course, iced water.