EATING AND DRINKING. 301 
EATING AND DRINKING. 
Be careful to eat good, plain, wholesome foods. It takes an 
ordinary meal fully four to five hours to digest. While food is 
digesting no more should be put into the stomach, therefore 
three meals a day are sufficient, unless of course in cases, under 
a medical man’s care, where special measures are necessary. 
The ancient Greeks and Persians only ate twice daily. The 
Fic. 126.—These are the Phagosytes which help to make up the blood of our 
bodies. They look like bits of jelly, and are so small that it requires a powerful 
microscope to see them. 
The top roy is what they look like when they are swimming in the liquid part of 
the blood. 
A. This is the nucleus from which radiates the life-principle of the 
phagosyte. 
B. This is a tiny cavity which holds liquid. 
The second row shows a Phagosyte attacking, seizing and digesting a disease 
microbe. 
There are countless millions of Phagosytes in our blood. They attack and eat 
up disease microbes which get into the blood. They repair wounds and build up 
parts of the body. 
C. This is a disease microbe. 
Alcohol and the nicotine in tobacco shrivels up and kills these microbe-killing 
phagosytes when it gets into the blood. Those it does not kill, it cripples. 
Romans did likewise, until they grew into luxurious ways of 
living. 
When there is anything wrong with the digestive organs or 
their appendages, such as ordinary indigestion, catarrh, bilious- 
ness, or constipation, then careful dieting or a temporary fast 
is necessary, else the blood will be rendered foul by the poisons 
released from the decomposing food. 
