EATING AND DRINKING. 



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Eating and Drinking. 



Be careful to eat good, plain, wholesome foods. It takes an 

 ordinary meal fully four to live hours to digest. While food is 

 digesting no more should be put into the stomach, therefore 

 three meals a day are suflicient, 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 



Fig. 128. — 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 row 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-prmciple 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-killmg 

 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. 



