Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie: The Stories behind the Foods We Love

Pizza, Pickles, and Apple Pie: The Stories behind the Foods We Love — page 9
4 America gets a BREAKFAST BELLYACHE By the middle of the 18th century a typical American breakfast included mutton chops bacon eggs cornbread and pie And maybe some leftovers from the night before All at one meal As you may have noticed these breakfasts had a lot of grease and not much fiber Together with the other food they ate this caused a painful condition called dyspepsia Dyspepsia gave people a constant bellyache Americans wondered what was going on They thought they were eating good food Dyspepsia forced people to rethink what they ate What you eat is way more important than how much you eat Must be all that milking I did today Health experts decided that people needed a place where they could take some time off and fix their diet They opened sanitoriums and fed people a more balanced diet that included a plant based breakfast