[Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call]@TWC D-Link bookNerves and Common Sense CHAPTER XVI 13/13
I am tired of them." "Dear, dear me! I ate so much ice cream that it made me ill, and it has made me ill to think of it ever since." Relax, drop the contraction, pretend you had never tasted ice cream before, and try to eat a little--not for the sake of the ice cream, but for the sake of getting that knot out of your stomach. "But," you will say, "can every one eat everything ?" "Yes," the answer is, "everything that is really good, wholesome food is all right for anybody to eat." But you say: "Won't you allow for difference of tastes ?" And the answer to that is: "Of course we can like some foods more than others, but there is a radical difference between unprejudiced preferences and prejudiced dislikes." Our stomachs are all right if we will but fulfill their most simple conditions and then leave them alone.
If we treat them right they will tell us what is good for them and what is not good for them, and if we will only pay attention, obey them as a matter of course without comment and then forget them, there need be no more fuss about food and very much less nervous irritability..
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