EATING FOR THE GLORY OF GOD.
By David Paulson, M.D.
WE may take a view of some of the rational remedies that aid the patient to a recovery of his health. One of the most important of these would be a pure, simple, and wholesome diet, the fundamental principle of which is to "eat for strength and not for drunkenness." When people begin to eat food simply to satisfy taste, they are running off the road of health on a tangent that is going to lead them to destruction if they persist in it, for it will lead them down to both physical and moral ruin. If they will eat and drink simply for their own pleasure, they will do other things from the same motive, and those who live in pleasure are "dead while they live." We should ascertain what food builds up the brain and the bodily energy, makes the eyes bright, and puts color in the cheeks. Such are the foods that everybody should use, whether sick or well. As a general principle, when we have found out what foods will tend to make us well, we have found out the foods that will keep us well. Some time ago one of our patients said he would do whatever he was told to do, in order to secure health; that he was even willing to eat sawdust, if by so doing he could be benefited. I told him it was not sawdust that he needed, and then pointed out to him what food I considered to be adapted to his case. "How long shall I continue eating this food?" he asked. I told him he must continue it as long as he lived, and assured him that if he had always eaten this kind of food he would not have come here. This seemed to puzzle him, and he asked, "Do you eat this kind of food all the time?" And I replied that I certainly did; that I did not want to eat anything else. But, as a matter of fact, in reference to diet he had wandered so far away into by and forbidden paths that the right road actually seemed repulsive to him. DAVID PAULSON, M.D.