"When to Eat,

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1234, 12 May 1884, Page 2

"When to Eat,

When people sit up late at night, particularly if they are delicate, they should always eat something, if only a slice of bread and butter before retiring. This seems heretical, but it is not. Animals after eating instinctively sleep. Human beings become drowsy after a full rqeal, Why ? Because blood is solicited toward the stomach to supply the juices needed m digestion. Hence the brain receives less blood than during fasting, becomes, pale, and the powers grow dormant. Sleep therefore ensues. This is physiological. The sinking sensation m sleep-* lessness is a call for food. Wakelulness joften is merely a symptom of hunger. Gratify the desire, and you fall asleep. The feeble will be stronger at dawn if they eat on going to bed. Fourteen hours lie between supper and breakfast. By that time the fuel of the body has become exhausted. Consequently the morning toilet* fatigues many. Let such eat at bedtime, and take a glass of warm milk or beef-tea before rising. Increased vigour will result, " But the stdmach must rest." True. Yet when hungry we must eat. Does the infant's stomach^ rest, as long as an adult's? The latter eats less often merely because his food res quires digestion. Seldom can one remain awake until halkpast ten or eleven o'clock without hunger. Satisfy it.^and sleep will be sounder. During the night give wakeful cliilds ren food. Sleep will follow. The sick should invariably eat during the night. This is imperative. At night, the delicate may take, slowly, warm milk, beef tea, or oatmeal gruel. Vigorous adults may also eat bread and milk',cold beef, mutton, chicken and bread, raw oysters — all, of course, m moderation. Do not eat if not hungry. Eat if you are.