Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1886-08-28
EATING FRUIT N SUMNER.

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~ Their General Hsalth--A warning.
Iightness is the first essential alike in
the food and drink taken in warm
weather. There IL thea 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 beth P=ia..shls and
easily obtainable, is much in use. Its ad-
vantages are that It provides seasonable
change of diet. hight 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 or another. For
diabetes, the only least desirable kinds,
as certain nuts and almonds, are availa-
bic, all others AZ 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 few grapes. Diarrhoea and
dyssntery preclude the use Of all fruit.
On the other hand, for oonstipated per-
sons 1t is sometimes the oAly reliable
remedy which they can use continuously
with comfort. Il IL 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 prop
erty. Those IN normal health may
eat almost any ripe fruit The blasd
varieties are the most wholesome
and nutritious = strawberries, apples,
pears, grapes, and gooeeberries. The
last named, however, with cursects 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
fother foreign fruits. bananas are whole
some. Dried fruits, and the skin Of
fruits In general, are indigsstibls. Nuts,
the edible part Of which e really the
seed, contain much albumsn and some
fat in condensed form, and are particI-
larly difficult of digestion
| Fruit may be taken with a meal or on
an empty stomach. In the former case
it promotes digestion by its gently irri-
tating effect on the Mucous membrane
Of the stomach and intsstinss. If an
aperient effect be desired it had better
be taken in the morning before break.
fast or between meals. A succulent and
pleasant acid variety Is best for both
purposes, while it is also a food. The
quantity of fruit which should be taken
depends on the kind. If 1t belong 20 the
bland nutritious class, healthy person
may now and then partake of it as freely
as any other wholesome food. But he
will gain more benefit if he will take
only little and take it regularly. The
same may be said of the invalid with
whom fruit agrees.
| Cooking removes much of the acidity
from crude fruit and readers it lighter
as well as more palatable. So treated il
is productive of good and no harm. Bu
it is fundamental principle that what
ever fruit is eaten uncooked must bs
fully ripe, and not over-rpe. This may
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commonly admitted, but not, it would
seem by all, for we still find people, anG
not few, who will themselves deiber
ately take, and worse, viii give to theil
children, green gooseberries, green ap
pies, ETC., the very hardness of which
apart from their acid pungency, suggest
the unfitness for digestion. Such PEG
pie use as food an acid, irritant poison
whose necessary action causes excessiv,
intestinal secretion, with more or les
of Inflammation. Hence arises diar
rhoea. On the other hand, fruit which
is er-ripe, in which fermentation hal
begun, is a frequent cause of this disor
|Ader, and equally to be avoided, and per
haps also more difficult 10 avoid becaus
the insidious beginning of decay is no
easily recognized.
| 1t should never be forgotten by an.
who incline to follow the season il
their feeding, that the want Of such pre-
cautions as the above may produce tina
dysenteric form of diarrhoea, aBritisl
cholera" which is occasionally as rap
idly fatal as the more dreaded Asiati
type of that disease. -Boston Medica
Journal.