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occasionally, but sur-h sweetr, or savouries should,
properly speakina/ form part of the meal. People
take milk as a sort of a drink^ in the morning or
evening or before going to bed. This is aijo bad.
Milk is good nourishing food/ and not a drink* It
should be regarded as a light rneal or made part of
a meal. Those who regard milk as a drink are not
treating it with the respect which is due to it.
Naturally/ it turns against them and has its revenge.
CAUSE (6) Work offer food :—
Any kind of work interferes with digestion tc
some extent. If the work is a hard one, digestion is
completely upset. This is especially so if the work
commences within about half an hour after a meal,
I have found that in the case of those whose
digestive power is not up to the mark/ half an hour's
strenuous work ( particularly when it involves brisk
walking or running) immediately after a meal/ is not
compensated for even by six hours' rest afterwards,
Eating must always be followed by rest/ but our
hours of work either in offices or schools are quite
unsuited to our habits of eating. We take our food
hurriedly at about 9 or 10 a.m. and rush to our place
' of work. Unlike the westerner who takes his
heaviest meal at night/ we take our principal meal
before going to work. Either' we should change
our habits of eating or get our hours of work altered.
The latter is perhaps the more feasible proposition,
„ Our ancient scriptures say/ " Do your work with
water alone/' The Bible says: " Woe urto ihee,
oh laud, when thy king is a child and thy princes
eat in the morning/' Celsus/ the famous physician of
Rome laid down the golden rule, ' Let them study
not after food but after digestion/ In our own times
Dr. Jules Virev orove^ by his experiment on dogs