Suggestions for the Manual Laborer

If one is engaged in active physical labor, such as farming, mining, heavy factory work or in any vocation where the muscles are in constant use they can safely partake of these menus as given without change or modification. And there may be cases where extreme physical labor or activity is being performed such as football, athletic contests, iron workers or roll­ing mill employees where these menus would need to be increased much beyond the proportions herein given. The actual necessity for food is governed by three fundamental laws: first, age; second, activity or work, and third, the temperature of atmosphere or environ­ment. If some study is devoted to the suggestions herein given and some time devoted to experimenta­tion, the student will soon become familiar with his or her requirements, measured or determined by age, oc­cupation, temperature, the amount of fresh air breathed every day, the mental condition, whether dis­turbed or tranquil, and feeding themselves will become one of the most fascinating studies and duties within the scope of their daily employment. When one first begins to recognize the great importance and wonderful possibilities of scientific feeding, they are apt to swing the pendulum of their studies to the opposite extreme and make their eating a kind of laborious or burdensome process, by weighing their foods, endeavoring to secure therefrom a given amount of proteids, carbohydrates, fats, etc., etc., according to the old dietary standards given by various writers or in government bulletins. This is all a mistake, for the season that Nature demands that the animal body in order to be healthy take a certain amount of activity every day and breathe a certain amount of air. These things are to the human body what the automatic gov­ernor is to the steam boiler. If we do not eat enough, Nature gives us the signal of hunger, and if we slightly overeat, we consume or work off the surplus by labor, and the residue or poisons resulting from the labor are carted to the lungs by the circulation and burned or consumed by the oxygen we breathe. Therefore, if we would use reasonable care in regard to selections and quantity, and take a reasonable amount of exercise and fresh air, the body would become an automatic self-adjusting machine so far as quantity is concerned.

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