136 WASTING FOR RACE RIDING. 



Potatoes, broad beans, peas, rice, butter, milk, fat of every 

 kind, soups, puddings, sugar, sweets, stews, minces, and 

 everything containing an excess of fat, sugar or starch, 

 should be carefully avoided. It is a well-known fact, 

 that to keep in good health one should eat daily a 

 certain proportion of vegetables, in order that certain 

 salts contained in them may be furnished to the system. 

 By cooking, a large proportion of these salts being lost, 

 a man in training should eat every day, so to as obviate 

 the necessity of consuming a large bulk, a small quan- 

 tity of lettuces, raw tomatoes, onions, celery, cucumber, 

 radishes or cress, or in their place a little fresh fruit, with 

 the exception of those which contain much sugar or 

 starchy matter. 



When wasting, one should avoid eating large quan- 

 tities of meat ; for doing so produces great languor 

 and depression. '* The first effect of an excessive meat 

 diet is not that of increased strength, but rather 

 a feeling of heaviness and weariness in the muscles, 

 with nervous excitation often rising to sleeplessness, 

 which he [Ranke] attributes to the accumulation 

 in the blood of the alkaline salts of the meat " 

 (Carpenter). 



The drink should be restricted to water, weak tea 



