STRETCHING THE STOMACH

Shannon News, 3 August 1926, Page 4

STRETCHING THE STOMACH

GLUTTONS AT MEAL TIME. PENALTY OP OVER-EATING. Most people eat until it hurts both their stomachs and digestive tracts instead of selecting choice foods that are fuel for producing sound minds and physically fit bodies declared Dr. T. Aslibridge Cameron, the English dietitian and health authority, in an address at the American Health Congress. “I have found in my travels and researches,” he said, ‘‘that 95 per cent of the people of the world are gluttons when a prescribed meal time comes around. None of them has ever known starvation except by reading of it In a hook, American people particularly,” he said, "gorge themselves until their stomachs are stretched out of proportion. You Americans eat until it hurts,,, instead of eating just enough of the right kind of food to keep the mind and body fit. ‘‘You seem to think that a meal is Incomplete unless there is a loaf ’of bread and a quarter peck of potatoes included in it. and you take carrots and cook all the iron out of them in. stead of eating them raw.' , Dr. Cameron would hav e the world eat the wheat after drinking tne juice, for breakfast; two oranges and a glass of milk foy lunch; a medium steak or fish and a head bf lettuce for dinner, with a beverage of a cup of half milk and half water. Nothing should be eaten between meals or before going to bed, he said, because thes e things overwork the system and increase the blood pressure, which eventually may bring an acut e heart condition.