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Title: Applied physiology : including the effects of alcohol and narcotics
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Overton, Frank, b. 1867
Subjects: Physiology
Publisher: New York : American Book Company
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bilious attack. We need a little moresugar than fat, but we often eat many times as much. Anatural appetite is satisfied with three meals a day, but thefalse appetite leads us to eat cake, candy, and fruit at alltimes. We seldom want to eat bread or meat betweenmeals. This shows that the cells of the body are not call-ing for food. By eating at all hours we keep the stomachat work without rest, and it soon tires itself out. 66. Too fast eating. — When we eat too fast, the foodcannot be chewed fine, but is swallowed in lumps. Thenthe stomach must do the work which the mouth should do.Besides, it does not have time to give notice that its wantsare filled, and so we eat too much. When we need towash food down with water, we are surely eating too fast,but drinking at meals to satisfy a natural thirst is proper. INTEMPERANCE AND POISONS 37 Our appetite sometimes leads us to drink very hot orvery cold water or tea. Although we cannot feel eitherin the stomach, yet both disturb digestion.
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One form of intemperance. 67. Intemperance. — Man is almost the only living beingthat eats all kinds of food for the mere pleasure of eating.Animals follow their natural appetites, and their stomachsare healthy. Man eats to satisfy new appetites, and harmshis stomach so that it cannot digest even plain food. Weshould be far better off if we never touched sweetmeats,pie, and cake, but lived only upon bread and meat andother plain foods. Satisfying an appetite which does not indicate a need of 38 APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY the body is intemperance. Almost everybody is intem-perate in eating from the time he can walk, to old age.Intemperance in eating is very liable to lead to intemper-ance in drinking later in life. Eating and drinking anything for mere pleasure is in-temperance and harms the body. We may not see theharm of eating a single apple in the middle of the fore-noon when we are not hungry; and yet this is an act ofintemperance, and, if repeated, tends to overwork thestomach and to p

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