Taking Luncheons

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 12, 1864

Taking Luncheons.—Of all luncheons, the worst are those taken a short time previous to the hour of rest in the evening. It is the sure way to produce restlessness and sleeplessness at night, and dullness and headache in the morning. It is, indeed, the very worst time in the twenty-four hours for taking food. It is the original cause of those late suppers, which are indulged in by many of the wealthy and luxurious, and which are pre-eminent in the list of indulgences that shorten life. "Cardan observes, that he had conversed with many persons, who had lived to be a hundred years of age, and they all declare to him, that they had made it a rule to eat little at night. It is like loading your horse with a heavy additional burden, after he has been toiling all day, and is weakened by fatigue; or like filling up the mill hopper when the water is nearly run out. People may tell us that they cannot sleep without this luncheon, or supper, just before bed time; but they may rest assured, that a persevering indulgence in it, will ere long bring on that sleep which knows no waking.—Ex.