The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1903-03-28
Foods Dangerous When Combined
From the St. Louis Star.

FROM the ST. LOUIS oIal.
There are many foods and drinks which
are harmless and nutritious when taker
alone but which when combined become
a menace to health and even to life. In
Central America any native will warn you
against drinking whisky Immediately attel
eating bananas. Violent collie and inter.
nal cramp is a common result OF such
proceeding The mischief is worse wher
the ordinary fiery spirit Of the country dis
titled from maize and known as aguadlente,
is the liquor swallowed.
People who are fond of salads should
uever eat a hearty meal at the same time.
The vinegar in the salad delays digestion,
Even so little as one part of vinegar In a
thousand increases the length of time re-
quired for the digestion of an artificial dl-
gestive mixture from four to thirty min.
utes When the proportion of vinegar
rises to one in 500 digestion entirely ceases
for time. Vinegar with salt appears to
be specially harmful. An inquest was
held some little time ago at Loughton, in
Staffordshire, England, upon girl of ID
who had died from drinking daily dose
of salt and vinegar She had taken ii
from some foolish notion that it would i'm
prove her complexion,
You should never eat cherries with milk.
That mixture caused the death of Presi
dent Franklin Pierce of the United States,
Meat with tea has ruined thousands Of
digestious, Tea always exercises retard-
ing effect upon the digestion of any food,
even Of bread and other starchy substances
But upon meat ii has far verse effect.
Good China tea contains fully : per
cent. of tannin, and this substance it gives
up to boiling water almost iastantsneously.
Tanuin turns meat into substance some
what resembling leather aud renders it ex
tremely difficult for the digestive organs
Ia deal with
That well known English authority, Sir
William Roberts, VI. D., SAYS that the
best way to minimize the inhibitory action
of tea upon digestion IS TO make the brew
very weak and TO drink it, not during a
meal but after eating
He also declares that small quantity
of bicarbonate of soda added 70 tea com
ple,ely removes it, deterrent effect upon ii.
ges,ion 80 LILLE as one part in 50, or 10
grains Of soda to an ounce Of sea, l. suii
Gent for this purpose.
There Is a popular idea that cheese "di-
geSts everything but itself Never wa
more foolish error perpetratei by a pop
ular proverb. Although cheese contains
a great deal of nourishment, no one who Is
not blessed with very powerful digestion
should ever eat it
The feeling Of comfort which people Of
strong digestion experience after partaking
Of cheese j. caused BY the increased flow
Of digestive fluid, provoked By the attemps
Of the internal organs to deal with an al
most entirely indigestible substance.
The greatest mistake q all Is to eat
cheese after meat, particularly after sal,
meat Meat gives the digestion quite suf-
6eieni to do without further bariening IL
Another most uuwiSe mixture ! that Of
cheese with raw onions,
The oyster i almost the only animal
substance which We make practice Of
eating raw There Is very sound reason
for doing 50 The greater Tart of the
oyster Is simply > mas cf glyoogen, or an
imal starch. mingled With a substance
which disests 1t, The oyster i self
digestei