The Child's Book of Health in Easy Lessons for Schools (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...well what agrees with the stomach. If we feel uncomfortable after a meal, instead of comfortable, it is most likely we have eaten something wrong, or eaten too fast, or too much. If it takes you a long time to get asleep, if you have bad dreams, or wake in the morning with a headache, and have no appetite for breakfast, it is often because you ate an unwholesome supper the night before. Children will often be fretful and cross, because their food does not digest well. If you wish to feel well and hearty, do not eat any thing but wholesome food. Some people seem to think that even if they tease their stomach, and get it out of order, they can make it well again by taking medicine. So they keep on eating things that hurt them, and then take medicine to mend the mischief. It is better not to have to take medicine at all; but to try in other ways, such as careful eating, good food, and proper exercise, to have the stomach and bowels do their duty well and easily. LESSON XXII. SOME OF THE PROPER THINGS TO EAT. WHAT are some of the most wholesome things to eat? Let me tell you of a few. Of course, every one eats bread, without which we should be poorly off. There is no single food in the world which meets so many of the real needs of the body. Wheat-flour has every thing to support life, except fat. When you eat bread and butter, you are eating nearly a perfect food. There is one thing which we can live on for a long time, without wanting any thing else to eat or drink. It will not only keep us from wasting away, but we shall grow larger and fatter on it. What is it? Milk. You know a baby can live on milk for months, and is all the better if it gets nothing else. Well, if you come to think of it, milk is in itself several kinds of food. It has...