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Page 31.3 – “By a mental calculation - by thinking and desiring - by intending to have the bowels move about that (after breakfast) hour, very much may be done by way of facilitating such result.” Comment – There is not that much mental control of when you open the bowels.

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Why 78 – Constipation 1 (What 41) The bile aids the passage of faeces.

Page 24.2 – “but its (bile) more important office, doubtless, is to aid the passage of the refuse, or the feces by evacuation.”

Page 192.2 – “The bile, which is the appropriate stimulant for the bowels, becomes deficient; the bowels become sluggish and costive;”

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Why 79 – Constipation 2 (What 41) Constipation can cause nutrient deficiencies.

Page 30.1 – “When the bowels are sluggish, the process of absorption of chyle is retarded, and What chyle is absorbed is less pure and healthy; so the quantity of the blood is impaired.”

Comment – Constipation is a problem with the large bowel, while absorption is in the small bowel.

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Why 80 – Constipation 3 (What 41)

Constipation causes high blood pressure and depression.

Page 30.2 – “a costive state of bowels often cause a pressure of blood on the brain; also deranging the nervous system - excitability of the nerves; nervous headache; depression of the spirit; depression of the spirit; and the long catalogue of suffering, too numerous for detail.”

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Why 81 – Constipation 4 (What 41)

Constipation interferes with the action of the stomach.

Page 30.2 – “Habitual costiveness impairs the tone of stomach, and prevents its healthy action.”

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Why 82 – Constipation 5 (What 41) Constipation can cause haemorrhoids.

Page 30.2 –“Piles, also, with various degrees of severity, are often caused, directly or indirectly, by constipated bowels.”

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Page 198.1 – “The bowels may be moved with large injections of cold or warm water,” Comment – With a proper diet, fluid intake and exercise there should be no need for laxatives or enemas.

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What 43 - Emetics

There are times when vomiting should be induced.

Page 198.1 – “Vomiting may sometimes be indicated.”

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Comment - Vomiting is valid after imbibing a poison, but in the mid-19th century it was used to “balance the humours”.

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Page 33.1 – “If persons intend to have health, their meals should be regularly timed and distanced.”

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What 45 – Eating before Bed W 58 R 23 G 78 A 131 J 70 K 70

No food should be eaten for two or three hour before bed.

Page 34.1 – “no food should be previously taken in all ordinary cases within the space of two or three hours. (of going to bed)

Page 117.1 – “Sleep, to be quiet and refreshing, should be on an empty stomach.”

Page 117.1 – “The better way is not to take anything, even the mildest fruit, after supper.” Comments – A full meal before bed may have some validity, but not no food.

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Why 83 – Eating before Bed (What 45) There is no digestion when sleeping

Page 34.1- “when we are asleep, the whole system is in a quiescent state; the nerves which are called into action in the process of digestion, are, during health sleep, inactive. …. There is an effort on the part of the nerves to be quiet, while the burdened stomach makes an effort to call them into action, and between these two contending efforts, there is disturbance – sort – of gastric riot – during the whole night.”

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What 46 – Three Meals a Day W 56 G77 A 134 J 68 K 68

No one under any circumstances should eat more than three meals a day.

Page 36.1 – “Three meals a day are sufficient for all classes of persons, under all circumstances, and all ages. …. But no individual, Whatever may be his age, his occupation, or his health, should take solid food more than three times in one day.”

99.2 – “They should rigidly and scrupulously confine themselves to three - if not to two - meals a day;”

Comment – As long as there is no excess food eaten and the quality is good, it does not matter how many meals are eaten in a day. The National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia consider that you should eat at least three meals a day.

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Why 84 – Three Meals a Day 1 (What 46)

It takes five hours for food to be digested, and if more food is eaten, digestion will be incomplete and nutrition reduced.

Page 39.1 – “no two meals or luncheons should be allowed to come nearer to each other than a distance of at least FIVE HOURS.”

Page 39.1 – “the process with the first meal is interrupted; the organs are obliged to stop their course and begin a new process with the second meal: there will be probably a struggle between the two processes, and both be imperfectly performed. By this course, the organs are weakened, and the amount of nutrition from a given quantity of food is much reduced.”

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Comment - Even with graze feeding digestion is able to cope.

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Why 85 – Three Meals a Day 2 (What 46)

Damage to the stomach will cause damage to all organs.

Page 110.2 – “by eating too often …. A sympathetic injury to the whole system, there is a sort of negative injury done to the entire system by the interruption to the process of nutrition.”

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Why 86 – Nursing 1 (What 48)

It takes five hours for a baby to digest milk.

Page 91.1 – “It requires about as much time for their organs to digest food as it requires for grown person. And, if the digestive process be hurried and confused, their food does not nourish them as well, and they cannot grow as strong and robust.”

Page 92.2 – “It requires about the same length of time for the infant to digest its meal as it does the man of ripe age to digest his;”

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Why 87 – Nursing 2 (What 48)

There will be less vomiting, colic and fits if a baby is fed three times a day.

Page 92.2 – “As infants are usually treated (fed more than three times a day), they are subject to repeated vomiting, colic, and, not infrequently, fits, and the cause is obvious: the stomach has been overloaded.”

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Babies should not be nursed at night.

94.1 – “and never be nursed during the night.”

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What 50 – Children

After weaning children should only eat three meals a day.

Page 96.2 – “When children are old enough to take solid food, they should have only three meals a day.”

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Why 88 - Children 1 (What 50)

More meals a day causes less nutrition.

Page 96.2 – “if they eat oftener, their stomachs will be deranged, and their food will not so well nourish them.”

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Why 89 – Children 2 (What 50)

Children eating less often will prevent worms, cholera and many other diseases.

Page 96.2 – “While other children have been afflicted with worms, colic, cholera-morbus, and a host of other ailments common to children generally, they (those who eat three meals a day) have escaped.”

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Why 90 – Children 3 (What 50)

If fed only three meals a day, children will be less hungry.

Page 98.1 – “The almost continual hankering for food which many children seem to have, arises wholly from a habit of constant eating.”

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preceding a meal. Just after a meal, they should be at leisure, or amusement which requires no mental or physical exertion.”

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Mental activity within one hour after meals is dangerous.

Page 45.1 – “No man should put himself to close study immediately after a full meal, neither to close counting room labor, or teaching, or public speaking.”

Page 50.2 – “Mental labor should never be attempted within one hour after a meal is finished.” Page 99.2 – “They (students) should never apply their minds to study or reading at least for one hour after their meal is finished:”

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Why 91 - Physical or Mental Activity 1 (What 51) Mental or physical activity after eating stops digestion.

Page 45.1 – “Hence, when body or mind is taxed considerably immediately after eating, the process of digestion is much disturbed and interrupted.”

Page 45.2 – “This is the reason; while the food is being mixed with and broken up by gastric juices, which process generally occupies, in the case of a dinner, full one hour, the nervous energies - electric forces - of the whole system are drawn into sympathy with the stomach, ..... nothing should be allowed to interrupt this natural arrangement. But if we allow ourselves to make much bodily or mental exercise during the hour mentioned.... the process of digestion is much disturbed and interrupted.”

Comment – Physical exercise, but not mental activity can slow digestion, but this does no harm.

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