Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-06-12
WHAT WE EAT.
Harmless Foods Which Arc Very Dangerous
When Combined.
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There are many foods and drinks
which are harmless and nutritious
when taken 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 inn
medIately after eating bananas. Vio-
lent collie and internal cramp is COM
mon result OF such proceeding. The
mischief is worse when the ordinary
fiery spirit of the country distilled
from maize and known as aguadiente,
is the liquor swallowed.
People who are fond OF salads should
never eat hearty meal at the came
time. The vinegar in the salad delays
digestion. Even so little as one part
OF vinegar in thousand increases the
length of time required for the diges.
ton OF an artificial digestive mixture
from 4 to 30 minutes. When the pro.
portion of vinegar rises one in 500 d.
gestion entirely ceases for time.
Vinegar with salt appears to be spe-
cially harmful. An inquest was held
some little time ago at Loughton, In
Staffordshirc, England, upon a girl of
10 who had died from drinking daily
dose of salt and vinegar. She had
taken It from some foolish notion that
it would improve her complexion.
You should never eat cherries with
milk. That mixture cause the death
of President Franklin Pierce of the
United States.
Meat with tea has ruined thousands
OF digestions. Tea always exercises
retarding effect upon the digestion OF
any food, even of bread and other
starchy substances. But upon meat
it has far worse effect.
Good China tea contains fully s per
cent Of tannin, and this substance it
gives up to boiling water almost in
simultaneously. Tannin turns meat
into a substance somewhat resembling
leather and renders it extremely diff.
cult for the digestive organs to deal
with.
That we'll known English authority,
Sir William Roberts, NJ. D., says that
the best way to minimize the inhibi-
tory action OF tea upon digestion is to
make the brew very weak and to drink
it, not during q meal, but after eating.
He also declares that a small quan.
tity Of bi-carbonate of soda added to
tea completely removes its deterrent
effect upon digestion. So little as one
part in so. or 10 grains of soda to an
ounce of tea, is sufficient for this pur-
pose.
There is a popular idea that cheese
"digests everytking but ITSELF" Never
was a more foolish error rerpetuated
by q popular proverb. Although
cheese contains a great deal of nour-
ishment, no one who is not blessed
with a very powerful digestion should
ever eat it.
The feeling OF comfort which people
Of strong digestion experience after
partaking of cheese is caused by the
increased flow of digestive fluid, pro-
voked by the attempt of the internal
organs to deal with an almost entirely
iudigestible substance.
The greatest mistake of all is to eat
cheese after meat, particularly after
salt meat. Meat gives the digestion
quite sufficient to do without further
burdening it. Another most unwise
mixture is that OF cheese with raw
onions.
The oyster is almost the only ami
NAL substance which we make prac-
tice OF eating raw. There is very
sound reason for doing so. The great
er part of the oyster is simply a mass
of glycogen, or animal starch, min.
gled with substance which digests it.
The oyster is self.digested.