Diet in Relation to Age and Activity

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health
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Author: Henry Thompson ISBN: 9782366592139
Publisher: Editions Le Mono Publication: June 14, 2016
Imprint: Editions Le Mono Language: English
Author: Henry Thompson
ISBN: 9782366592139
Publisher: Editions Le Mono
Publication: June 14, 2016
Imprint: Editions Le Mono
Language: English

As we increase in age – when we have spent our first half-century – less energy and activity remain, and less expenditure can be made; less power to eliminate is possible at fifty than at thirty, still less at sixty and upward. Less nutriment, therefore, must be taken in proportion as age advances, or rather as activity diminishes, or the individual will suffer. If he continues to consume the same abundant breakfasts, substantial lunches, and heavy dinners, which at the summit of his power he could dispose of almost with impunity, he will in time certainly either accumulate fat or become acquainted with gout or rheumatism, or show signs of unhealthy deposit of some kind in some part of the body, processes which must inevitably empoison, undermine, or shorten his remaining term of life. He must reduce his "intake," because a smaller expenditure is an enforced condition of existence.
At seventy the man's power has further diminished, and the nutriment must correspond thereto if he desires still another term of comfortable life...
Another agent in the combination to maintain for the man of advancing age his career of flesh-eater is the dentist. Nothing is more common at this period of life than to hear complaints of indigestion experienced, so it is affirmed, because mastication is imperfectly performed for want of teeth...

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As we increase in age – when we have spent our first half-century – less energy and activity remain, and less expenditure can be made; less power to eliminate is possible at fifty than at thirty, still less at sixty and upward. Less nutriment, therefore, must be taken in proportion as age advances, or rather as activity diminishes, or the individual will suffer. If he continues to consume the same abundant breakfasts, substantial lunches, and heavy dinners, which at the summit of his power he could dispose of almost with impunity, he will in time certainly either accumulate fat or become acquainted with gout or rheumatism, or show signs of unhealthy deposit of some kind in some part of the body, processes which must inevitably empoison, undermine, or shorten his remaining term of life. He must reduce his "intake," because a smaller expenditure is an enforced condition of existence.
At seventy the man's power has further diminished, and the nutriment must correspond thereto if he desires still another term of comfortable life...
Another agent in the combination to maintain for the man of advancing age his career of flesh-eater is the dentist. Nothing is more common at this period of life than to hear complaints of indigestion experienced, so it is affirmed, because mastication is imperfectly performed for want of teeth...

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