Diet in relation to age and activity / by Sir H. Thompson.

  • Thompson, Henry, Sir, 1820-1904.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Diet in relation to age and activity / by Sir H. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    term furnishes, in conjunction with a moderate proportion of the most easily- digested forms of animal food, may not be appetising- and agreeable to the palate. On the contrary, I am prepared to maintain that it may be easily served in forms highly attrac- tive, not only to the general but to a cultivated taste. A preference for the high flavours and stimulating scents peculiar to the flesh of vertebrate animals, mostly subsides after a fair trial of milder foods when supplied in variety. And it is an experience almost universally avowed, that the desire for food is keener, that the satisfaction in gratifying appetite is greater and more enjoyable, on the part of the general light feeder, than with the almost exclusively flesh- feeder. For this latter designation