Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-01-07
DO YOU LIKE CANDYt
IT You DO, Listen to md Heed n Physl-
clans Words of Wisdom-Pnre
Candies Arc Healthfui.

IT You DO, Listen to ana Heed u Physl-
clans Words of wisdom-Pnre
Candies Arc Healthfui.
From thcPitsburs Dispatch.
The candies of to-day are made of five
main ingredients, cane sugar, glucose,
gum and coloring and favoring matters.
Other substances are often added, as starch
which, though often considered as an adul-
teration, should be looked upon as u legit-
innate Ingredient. II all the substances
manufactured therefrom cannot be
otherwise than wholesome and nutri-
tious. Tho sugar, glucose aud starch
are fat forming, and heat producing
principles are present In many OF our diet
ary staples. This fact should not be lost
sight of by consumers of candy. Being
foods, the various candies should never be
eaten between meals, as they are equiva-
lent to q lunch, and everyone Ia aware OF
the deleterious effect of constant lunching.
The proper time for all kinds OF confec-
tlonery Is as dessert to the regular meals.
Used In this way they are often decidedly
beneficial In inducing one to stop partaking
Of the more bulky elements Of the meals
before the stomach becomes overloaded.
They offer thus n nutritious, digestihle
dessert of little bulk, dessert which, by
all the laws of nature and humanity, ought
to substitute for all time that indigestible
American conglomeration - mince pie.
Good, pure candy, eaten In moderate
quantity as dessert to a meal, even to
every meal, never hurt anyone; and such
certainly Is the logical, rational wav to eat
II. But children must have something to
keep them quiet, and ladies' with nothing
to do must have something to amuse them
selves and further blunted tastes must
have something exceedingly sweet to
tickle jaded palates-for those reasons
II is likely that candy consumers
win go on eating their dozen and one
lunches day, in spite of all their physi-
clan may say TO the contrary. Yet il is an
indisputable fact that no ordinary stomach
can do its work quietly and well If re-
quired to digest more than three meals per
day, or IL 1t receives within Ii anything
other than water between those three
meals. True, there are people who are
always eating and lunching, consuming
candies and cakes by the pound, who vet
seem healthy and well but 1t Is doubtful
II these people ever eat a meal with relish
and II Is certain that sooner or later dys-
pepsia will overtake them and induce
dire repentance.
Practically, the best way to give confec-
tionery TO children Is to allow them, after
each meal, such quantity of candy as
they will be likely to eat within half
hour or less. Then they should have no
moro until after the next meal; and they
will not usually want 1t, If they get it thus
regularly.
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not readily dissolve or "melt down." Soft
or creamy candies are apt to be consumed
before the palate Is satisfied; whereas the
harder, less soluble kinds remain longer In
the mouth, yielding their sweetness for
more protracted period, thus inducing
safety, with far less consumption of
candy.
For the same reason, teach your children
to dissolve the candy slowly In their
mouths-not 10 chew il. Partaken of i'm
this way, and at these times, the harder
candies, II pure, are not only not injurious,
but are indeed often decidedly beneficial. y
and for these reasons: They are easily
digested foods rich in nutriment; they are
an inducement to leave the meal short of
safely, and they assist digestion. The
iatter assertion may be questioned by
some, but II Is a demonstrable fact that
anythihg which promotes the flow of
saiiva, al the same time, through the SYM
palhelic nervous system, promotes the
saliva, too, that Is swallowed with the dis
solved candy may aid digestion somewbat
after II has reached the stomach. tho,nh in
the light of late investigations this is some.
what doubtful-long held opinion 10 The
contrary Notwithstanding.
Persons inclined to adipose and who arc
opposed 10 it, had better let candy alone.
as, for them, nothing is so fattenlng. Per,
sistently slender people, however. need
not gorge themselves with candy in the
hope Of getting stout. for in them, some
thing more than fat-forming food is neees
sary for an increase in weight.
Children under two years OF age are