Diet in relation to age & activity : with hints concerning habits conducive to longevity / by Sir Henry Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1903
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Credit: Diet in relation to age & activity : with hints concerning habits conducive to longevity / by Sir Henry Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX Advertised nostrums, 46 Air-bath, 118 Alcohol, evils of, 13, 109 Animal flesh a concentrated form of nutriment, 67 Artificial teeth, 50 “ Baby ” a vegetarian ? is, 25 Bathing, 112 Bilious attacks to square accounts, 31 Brainworkers require a light dietary, 64 Bread, 104 Butter, 104 Chronic disease, cause of, 17 Comfort for those with weak stomachs, 75 Concentrated aliment to be avoided in age, 42 Cornaro’s writings and ex- perience, 55 Corpulence to be avoided, 90; prevents longevity, 90 Delicate stomach often due to impressionable nervous system, 77 Disease, cause of chronic, 17 Drink not to be taken with meals, 91,95; temperature of, 99 Drink, nutritious, 48 Early morning tea, 98 Eating rightly, 92 Exercise and food, 32, 39, 63, 65, lOI Fat—an incumbrance, 53 Feeding, improper, 15 “ Five-o’clock tea,” 108 Flesh-cookery, some disad- vantages of, 83 Flesh-eating not natural to the young, 69 Food and temperature, 70 Food in early years, 30 Food, none wholesome in itself, 79 Food, present sources and varieties of, should be maintained, i8 Force of habit, 67 Fresh air for the sedentary, 65 Hat to be discarded when possible, 120 Hot bath, 113 Hot foot-bath at night, 115 Hot-towel bath, 113 Improper feeding, evils of, equal to those produced by drink, 15 Income and expenditure, 37, 63 Increase of girth, 52 Indigestion, 71 ; cause of, 73, 78 ; not often a disease, 78 Indoor warmth, 121