Volume 1

Health lectures for the people.

Date:
1883-1892
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health lectures for the people. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    51/896
    APPENDIX CONTAINING THE PRINCIPAL PRACTICAL POINTS. Economy.—Elesh meat is expensive, and perfect health may De maintained, and hard work can be done, without it. Taken, however, once a day, it forms an agreeable variety, and cannot be said to do harm. Oatmeal, wheat flour, peameal, maize or Indian corn, and many others, supply the place of meat. With these, and rice, milk, potatoes, butter, fat, or oil, and fresh vegetables or fruits, people may be well nourished at small cost. When hard work has to be done with extreme economy nothing equals cooked oatmeal with milk. Variety.—The material of the principal dish at dinner should be changed often, or it should be cooked in a different way. Monotony in diet is to be avoided, especially for young people. Eating.—Some food should be taken before work; and the bulk of the day's food taken at breakfast and mid-day dinner, to sustain the body during work; tea dinners are not a good plan. Eat slowly, and chew well, if you wish to live long and escape in- digestion and low spirits. Violent exercise immediately after food should be avoided. Regularity as to time and quantity is important. Cooking.—More skill and trouble are required for cooking vegetable food than animal food, for flesh is more nutritious if eaten raw than when cooked, but less digestible. Flesh, and especially pork or ham, should be cooked through and through, to
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3