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What to Get for Breakfast; B With More Than One Hundred Different Breakfasts, and Full Directions for Each
M. Tarbox Colbrath
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-23.
ISBN 9781150765704
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Original Publisher: J.H. Earle Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WHAT TO GET FOR BREAKFAST. I. REASONS FOR A GOOD BREAKFAST. I Offer the opinion of an experienced and successful physician, whose protection I shared at an early age, and by whom I was scrupulously restricted from early morning walks, before breakfast, -- a custom then among juveniles, it being the prevailing opinion that the early morning air was the healthiest, most bracing, and purest. He did not agree with the boarding-school theory which prescribed long walks before breakfast as a means of promoting health, -- but ever argued the contrary as the fact, -- that languor and exhaustion were sure to follow such exeroise, especially when taken by persons of delicate organization or those liable to sudden colds. Assured that many consumptions and other diseases were contracted from the exposure of an empty stomach to the damp and poisonous influence of the morning air, he ever counselled those whose vocation called themout early to first brace up the stomach with a warm and nourishing breakfast, for at no period of the day was the air more tainted than at sunrise, in which it was a dangerous risk to take much exercise before the stomach had been fortified with a warm breakfast. Breakfast, coming after the longest fast in the twenty-four hours, should supply the great waste that goes on from supper till dinner. In this country this meal consists frequently of tea, coffee, and a small proportion of bread and butter. This is not enough for those who need a breakfast for muscular exertion or real activity. It does not give the strength that is needed to last until dinner, an
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