The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1899-02-08
FOOD THAT INJURIES.
THINGS THAT AFFLICTED PERSONS
SHOULD NOT EAT.
If You Have Tendency to Gout,
Shun Meat as You Would Torture.
A Little Advice to the Great Army
Of Sufferers From Dyspepsia.

A physician, writing in the Phila-
delphia Inquirer on Goods 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 bave exactly the same
kind of hear, liver and other organs,
and as result nothing is truer than
the saying that 'One mans meat is an
other mans poison -
+ Meat, for instance, is slow poison
to number of individuals. II there is
gouty strain in your family, you are
storing up future torture for yourself
every time you eat chop or piece Of
beet. 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 go 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 gouty, and there can
be no doubt that they are the greatest
meat eaters
Nothing is 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 60 pounds to a man s weight in FIVE
years-that is, of course, if he had the
sort of constitution that easily puts on
flesh.
But it is not sugar alone which is in
jurious to diabetic and stout people.
The former should not look at porridge,
rice, beet root, Spanish onions, port
wine. rum or ginger beer: the latter
should take neither soup, beer, potatoes
nor treacle, while gouty people should
not touch peas or beans.
If 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 as
well think of committing suicide as fre-
quenting the barroona.
For dyspeptics 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-
tating and injurious, vegetables are con-
yerted 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 it may bring relief: Eat little Of
everything, but eat sparingly, never
leaving the table with sense of hav-
ing eaten sufficient; eat slowly. Masti-
cate ali food thoroughly and never 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 ere many per-
sons who are so severely affected by par
ticular 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 acquaint-
ance of the writer's, for example, falls
into convulsions if he eats single
strawberry, and even the odor Of straw
berry jam in the neighborhood of jam
factories almost throws him into fit.
The writer knows a lady whose heart
comes to stop if she eats an 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 by the
smell Of apples, and patient Of the
writer's has often ayerred that even the
sight of beet root seemed to sufocate
him, while another had to give up
drinking milk because it produced in
tense Inflammation Of the eyes.
Many kinds of fish cause serious ILL
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
from headache as to be compelled to go
to bed.
These latter are the extreme instances
of injury from food, but they prove that
thousands of people suffer in less de-
gree, and that probably no one can
lunch or dins without swallowing some
thing poisonous to his system.
Protection.
Nephew (from the city)-Why do
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