Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-06
EATING FRUIT IN SUMNER.
Who May Consume Fruit to the Benefit
of Their General Health-A warning.


of Their General Heaith-A Warning.
Lghtness is the first essential alike in
the food and drink taken in warm
weather There is then less work to be
done, less waste of tissue, less need of
pre-eminently muscle-forming and heat
producing substances, meat and bread;
and fruit, as being both palatable and
easily obtainable, is much in use. Its ad-
vantages are that it provides a seasonable
change of diet, light and wholesome if
well chosen, and a palatable tonic and
stimulant of digestion with aperient
properties. There are few who can not
enjoy it in one form OF another. For
diabetes, the only least desirable kinds,
as certain nuts and almonds, are availa-
BILE, all others as containing sugar being
forbidden.
Sufferers from acid dyspepsia must Sc
lect carefully and limit their consump-
ton to the least irritating-a few straw
berries or a few grapes. DarrhHa and
dysentery preclude the use of all fruit.
On the other hand, for constipated per
sons it is sometimes the only reliable
remedy which they can use continuously
with comfort. 1t is also of benefit in
renal diseases by its action on the bowels.
AS tonic persons generally takeit well,
and feel the better for its digestive prog
erty. Those in normal health may
eat almost any ripe fruit. The bland
varieti IS are the most wholesome
and nutritious - strawberries, apples
pears, grapes, and gooseberries. The
last named, however, with currants and
and raspberries, and less wholesome
than others. Stone fruits are apt to dis
agree with the stomach. But the more
watery, as peaches and large plums- are
better than the smaller and drier, as
apricots and damsons The pulp OF
oranges renders them heavy. Among
other foreign fruits, bananas are whole
some. Dried fruits, and the skin OF
fruits in general are indigestible. Nuts,
the edible part of which is really the
seed, contain much albumen and some
fat in condensed form, and are particu-
larly difficult of digestion.
Fruit may be taken with meal or or
an empty stomach In the former case
it promotes digestion by its gently irri
of the stomach and intestines. If al
aperient effect be desired it had better
be taken in the morning before break
fast or between meals. a suCculent anC
pleasant acid variety is best for botl
purposes, while it is also a food. Tn,
quantity Of fruit which should be takel
depends on the kind If it belong to thu
bland nutritious class, a healthy person
may now and then partake of it as freel,
as any other wholesome food. But h,
will gain more benefit if he will taxi
only little and take it regularly. Tn
same may be said of the invalid will
whom fruit agrees.
Cooking removes much of the acidit7
from crude fruit and renders it hghte
as well as more palatable. So treated i
is productive Of good and no harm. Blu
it is a fundamental principle that what
ever fruit is eaten uncooked must b
fully ripe, and not over-ripe. This ma,
sound trite. and, indeed, the principle
!, commonly admitted, but not, it woul
seem by all, for we still find people, an
not few, who will themselves delibel
ately take, and worse, will give to thei
children, green gooseberries, green ap
. pies, etc, the very hardness of which
apart from their acid pungency, suggest
the unfitness for digestion. Such pee
pie use as food an acid, irritant poison
whose necessary action causes excessiv
intestinal secretion. with more or les
of inflammation. Hence arises dial
rhea. On the other hand, fruit whic
is ver-ripe, in which fermentation ha
begun, is a frequent cause of this disol
, der and equally to be avoided, and pei
haps also more difficult TO avoid becaus
the insidious beginning of decay is nc
easily recognized.
1t should never be forgotten by an
who incline to follow the season i
q their feeding, that the want of such pre-
. cautions as the above may produce tina
Z dysenteric form of diarrhoea, BIRTHS
cholera" which is occasionally as raj
idly fatal as the more dreaded Asiati
+ type of that disease.-Boston Medic5
, journal.
/, The Lazzaroni Have Disappeared.