Eating while Fatigued

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 28, 1876

Eating while Fatigued.

There are few habits more injurious to health than the common one of filling the stomach with food while the body is fatigued. Men will come from the fields, from their shops and counters, with their bodies or brains, or both, almost exhausted, sit down, and hurriedly eat a hearty meal, and then back to their labor again. If the brain, or any part or organ of the body becomes unduly fatigued, the whole system requires rest for awhile, so that the nervous influence and the circulation of the blood may become equalized throughout the body before another demand is made upon the vital energies.

If the stomach is filled with food while the vital forces are powerfully directed to the brain or the muscles, digestion cannot take place until an equilibrium has been established, and the blood and nervous power determined to the stomach, consequently the food remains undigested, becomes sour, and irritates the stomach, causing derangement and disease of the digestive organs and, through them, of the whole system. If you have any care for your health and comfort never sit down to eat while either body or brain is fatigued from over-exertion.—Herald of Health.