, 1899-03-13
FOOD THAT INJURIES.
THINGS THAT AFFLICTED PERSONS
SHOULD NOT EAT.

II You Have n Tendency to Govt.
shun Meat ms You Would Torture.
A Little Advice to the Great Army
Of Sunerern From Dyspepsia.
A physician. writing in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer on Foods and Their
Effect On the Human System" says:
That out Of sorts feeling from which
most Of us suffer half the days Of our
life is usually due to our eating things
we shouldn't. Although we are con
structed on the same model, scarcely
any two people have exactly the same
kind of heart, liver and other organs,
and as a result nothing is truer than
the saying that lone mans meat is an
other mans poison"
Meat, for instance, is q slow poison
to number of individuals. II there is
a equity strain in your family, you are
storing up future torture for yourself
every time you eat a chop or piece Of
beef. Gout is simply the result Of too
much uric acid in the blood, and meat
is full of the material from which uric
acid is made.
You may think that so long as you
have not to sit in an easy chair all day
there is no need for precautions in diet.
But the first symptoms are always
mild, and if you feel irritable and un-
able to settle down to work you had
better be careful how much meat you
eat. Englishmen are said to be the
worst tempered people on earth. They
are also the most equity, and there can
be no doubt that they are the greatest
meat eaters.
Nothing 10 more nourishing than
sugar. yet it is absolutely poison to
those who are prone to diabetes, and
any one inclined to corpulency should
regard it as a natural enemy. Two
Jumps Of sugar per day in excess of the
quantity required by the body would
add go pounds to a mans weight in Ave
years-that is, of course. If he had the
sort Of constitution that easily puts on
flesh.
But it Is not sugar alone which 10 in
furious to diabetic and stout people.
The former should not look at porridge,
rice. beet root, Spanish onions, port
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should take neither soup, beer, potatoes
nor t~reaole, while equity people should
not touch peas or beans.
II any near member Of your family
has st. Vitus' dance or epilepsy, you
should eat meat very sparingly and
grapes not at all. while you might a.
we'll think of committing suicide a. fire.
quenting the barroom.
For d%yspeptios Il is impossible to say
what food is good, because everything
ia bad. White bread remains ~undigest-
ed for hours. brown bread is most irri-
tating and injurious, vegetables are On
verified into gases and painful acids, and
most kinds of meat are too heavy. The
dyspeptic, in fact. ought never to have
been born.
However, since the sufferer from dys-
pepsia must eat, let him follow this rule,
and 1t may bring relief: Eat a little Of
everything, but eat sparingly, never
leaving the table with a sense Of hav-
ing eaten sufficient; eat slowly. Masti-
cate all food thoroughly and new drink
while eating. If he must drink, let him
drink after he has finished eating.
No doubt the majority Of people see
no connection between their ailments
and the breakfast or dinner which they
have enjoyed. But there are many per,
sons who are so severely affected by par
ticular articles of diet that there is NJ
question about the fact that some kinds
Of food are more or less poisonous to us
all, although we may not suffer very
greatly after eating them. An %acquaint-
ance of the writer's, for example. falls
into commissions if he eats a single
straw berry, and even the odor Of straw.
berry jam in the n%eighborhood Of jam
factories almost throws him into a fit.
The writer knows a lady whose heart
comes to a stop if she eats al egg. OF
course she never Intentionally eats one