The Florence daily tribune., 1899-02-21
FOOD THAT INJURIES.
THINGS THAT AFFLICTED PERSONS
SHOULD NOT EAT
II Won Have Tendency to Gout.
>huu Meat You Would Torture.
4 Little Advice 10 the Great Army
of Sufferers From Dyspepria.

4 Little Advice 10 the Great Army
of Sufferers From Dyspepria.
a physician, writing in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer ON Foods and Their
Effect on the Human System. says
That out Of sorts feeling from " hirh
most of us suffer half the days Of our
life is usually due Ia our eating thinE-
we shouldn't. Although we are cou.
structed on the same model. scarcely
nny two people have exactly the same
kind of heart. liver aud Other orpaus,
and as "a result nothing is trucr than
tue saying that "Ono man = meat is an
other mans poison.
Meat. for instance. is slow poison
to a number of individuals. If there il
a gouty strain III your family. yuu are
storing up future torture for yourself
every time you eat "A chop or picte ct
! beef Gout is simply the result of too
much uric acid in the blood, aud m,it
is full of tia material from which uric
acid is maoe
You may think that SO long as yoS
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 bud
better be careful bow much meat yuu
eat. Englishmeu are said tn be the
worst tempered people ON earth Tic
are also the most equity, and there can
be no doubt that they are the greatest
meat eaters
Nothing is more nourishing thar
surar, vet il is absolutely poison -
those who are proue TO diabetes an
any one inclined to corpuleucy s. nld
regard it as "a natural enemy Two
| Jumps of sugar per day in excess OF tho
| quantity required by the body won
ndd 60 pounds TO a mans weight IN hye
/ years-that is, of course, if he had the
| sort OF constitution that easily pl;s ON
: hesh
/ But it is not sugar alone which IL in.
/ curious to diabetic and stout people
| The former should not look at porridgo
rice, beet root, Spanish onions, port
| vine, rum or ginger beer, the latter
| should take neither soup, beer, potatoes
nor treaole, while gouty people should
I no. touch peas or beans
II any near member of your family
hns st. Wins dance or epilepsy. you
should eat meat very spariugly aud
| grapes net at all. while you might as
] well think of committing suicide as fire.
| quenting the barroom
7 For dysIeptics it is impossible TO say
what food is good. because everything
is bad. White bread remains undigest
( ed for hours, brown bread is most irri-
. q l.
verted into gases and painful acids, aud
most kinds of meat are too heavy The
/ dyspeptio, in fact. ought never to have
| been born
! However, since the sufferer from dys-
pepsia must eat, let him follow thisrule,
and it may bring relief; Eat little of
{ everything, but eat sparingly. never
leaving the table with Il sense of nav
/ ing eaten sufficient; eat slowly Mssti
cate all food thoroughly and never drink
while eating. II he must drink, let him
drink after he has finished eating
No doubt the majority of people SEQ
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
tioular articles of diet that there is no
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 acquaiut.
ance of the writer's. for example, falls
+ into convulsions if he eats IA single
straw berry, and even the odor of straw
berry Jam in the neighborhood of Jam
factories almost throws him into fit
The writer knows lady whose heart
comes to a stop if she eats au egg OF
course she never Intentionally eats one
| now, but frequently on taking piece
of cake or some kind of pudding or
sauce containing eggs she swoons.
/ Many people get cramp in the stom.
ach from eating honey, and more than
/ one death has resulted from this cause
Others are made violently sick 10y the
smell of apples and patient of the
writer has often averred that even the
sight of beet root seemed to suffocate
him, while another had to give up
/ drinking milk because it produced in
tense inflammation of the eyes,
Many kinds of fish cause serious i'll
ness Lobsters and crabs produce most
painful itching in some people, and the
/ writer has known several who after eat.
( ing salmon felt a horrid taste in the
mouth, and soon after suffered so badly
I from headache as to be compelled to go
I to bed
These latter are the extreme instances
of INJURY from tood, but they prove that
thousands of people suffer i'll less de
/ gree, and that probably no one can
! lunch or dine without swallowing some
thing poisonous to his system