REGULARITY IN EATING Why 5 hours?? Between Meal Time!
The stomach must have careful attention. It must not be kept in continue operation. Give this misused and much-abused organs some peace and quiet and rest After the stomach has done its work for one meal, do not crowd more work upon it before it has had a chance to rest and before a sufficient supply or gastric juice is provided by nature to care for more food.
Five hours at least should elapse between each meal, and always bear in mind that if you would give it a trail, you would find that two meals are better than three.
After the regular meal is eaten, the stomach should be allowed to rest for five hours. Not a particle of food should be introduced into the stomach till the next meal. In this interval the stomach will perform its work, and will then be in a condition to receive more food.
In no case should the meals be irregular. If dinner is eaten an hour or two before the usual time, the stomach is unprepared for the new burden; for it has not yet disposed of the food eaten at the previous meal, and has not vital forced for the new work. Thus the system is overtaxed!
Neither should the meals be delayed one or two hours, to suit circumstances, or in order that a certain amount of work may be accomplished. The stomach calls for food at the time it is accustomed to receive it. If that time is delayed, the vitality of the system decreases, and finally reaches so low an ebb that the appetite is entirely gone. If food is then taken, the stomach is unable to properly care for it. The food cannot be converted into good blood.
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