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Food For Old People

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
January
Year
1873
Copyright
Public Domain
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is your lat, good-naturcd grandfather living on fat beef or pork, white bread and butter, buckwheat cakes and molasse, rice and sugar, till he has lost all mental and physicnl enorgy, and desires to sit from morning till night Fsaying nothing audcariug fornothingv Change bis diet. Give hiin fish, beef steak, potatoes and uubolted wheat bread, or ryo and Indian, with oao half or three-quartors of the carboiiiferous artioles of his fornier diet, and in one week he will eheer you again with his old jokes, and eall for his hat and carie. Is be lean, and oold, and restless, and irritable ï Give him the fattost uieats, the best butter, and as inuch sugar and molasses as ho desiros, not taking away entirely food for the brain and muscle, bui adapting them to his cirfiimstances. Ferhapa kis brain has been overworked, and exhausticti and fitful action follow. If so he needs souie kind of phosphatic food to which he has nat bsen aecugtomed - such as oat-meal porridge or oatmeal cake, with niilk, or a diet of fish on pearL barley or pea soup. Or perhaps his restlessness comes from inactivity oí tho bowels. If go he needs fruit, vegctnfeles, unbolted wíieai bread, etc, with care to keep tho mind at ease, and to kane only such coinpaay as is aoothing and agreeable. Or perhaps irritability arises frora the use of too inuch meat and other phusgliatio food. If so keep him on a diet in ■which. tho phosphates are deficiënt, as rice, flour,. bread, butter, etc, with other food adaptad fco their condition and habits. ]5ut, that a regaiid to thuse different conditions and au adaptation of fcod to onform to them, will very much oontribute to comfort and happiness in the doclining yeürs of life, thero ia not a shadow of dobt 4 An orator, getting warjned with his subject, oxclaimtd, "Thero is not a man, ■woman or chikl iu tha house, who has ï- i;ived at the ago oí' fifty years, but what bas feit this trutb. thünderiiig through iheir minds for centurLes,"

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus