Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-01-10
FOOD THAT INJURIES.
THINGS THAT AFFLICTED PERSONS
SHOULD NOT EAT.
II You Have Tendency to Gout.
Shun Meat ns You Would Torture.
4 Little Advice to the Great Army
of Sufferers From Dyspepsia.

| A Little Advice TO the Great Army
of Sufferers From Dyspepsia.
| A physician, writing III the Phi]a.
delphia Inquirer Oh Foods aud 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 "One man meat is an
other mans poison.
| Meat, for instance, is slow poison
to a number of individuals. If there is
a equity strain in your family, you are
i storing up future torture for yourself
every time you eat q 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 bow much meat you
| eat. EnIlishmen are said to he the
worst tempered people On Garth They
are also the most equity, and there can
| be no doubt that they are the greatest
| meat eaters.
| Nothing is more nourishing than
su:sar, yet it is absolutely poison to
| those who are prone to diabetes and
nay one inclined to corpulency should
regard it as a natural enemy. Two
lum ps Of sugar per day i'll excess Of the
| quantity required by the body would
+, aid 60 pounds to a man S weight in five
| years-tEat is, Of course, if he had the
tort OF constitution that easily puts On
| flesh.
| Bat it is not sugar alone which is in.
| furious to diahetic and stout people.
The former should not look at porridge,
cice, beet root, Spanish onions, port
wine. rum or ginger beer: the latter
/ ,bould take neither soup, beer, potatoes
nor tleacle, while equity people should
not touch peas Or beans.
Ii any near member of your family
las st Vitus' dance OR epilepsy, you
should cat meat very sparingIy and
grapes not at all. while you might rs
we'll think of committing suicide as fire.
unenting the barroon.
For dysleptics it is impossible to say
what food is good, because everything
is had. White bread remains undigest-
ed for hours, brow u bread is most irri-
tating and injurious, vegetables are con-
verified into gases and painful acids, and
most kinds of meat are too heavy. The
dyspeptic, ill fact, ought never to have
been born
However, since the sufferer from dys.
pepsia must eat. let him follow this rule.
aud it may b. ing relief: Eat little of
everything, but eat sparingly, never
leaving the table with sense of hap-
ing eaten sufficient; eat slowly. Masti-
cate all food thoroughly and never drink
while eating. If be must drink, let him
drink after he has finished eating.
No doubt the majority of people see
no connection between their ailments
and tho 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 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
info 11~s@ i,o II
strawberry, aud even the door of straw
berry Jam i'll the neighborhood of Jam
factories almost throws him into fit.
The writer knows lady whose heart
COMES to a stop if she eats an egg. Of
con1se she never Intentionally eats one
now, but frequently on taking piece
Of cako or some kind of pudding or
sauce containing eggs she swoons
Many people get cramp in the stom
acb from, eating honey, and more than
one u,u,h has resulted from this cause.
Others are made violently sick by the
smell of apples, and a patient OF the
writer's has often averred that even the
sight Of beet root seemed to sutfocate
him, while another had to give mp
blinking milk because it produced in
tense Inflammation Of the eyes.
Many kinds of fish cause serious i'll
ness. HOLSTERS 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 com PEELED 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 dine without sw allowing some
thing poisonous to his system.
Tragic.
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