The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-02-11
HARMFUL WHEN MIXED.
Foods That Are HARMLESS by Them-
selves Become Injurious When
Combined wiki Other~.

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There are many foods and drinks
which are harmless and nutritious
when taken alone, but which when
combined become asmenace to health
and even to life, says an authority on
the subject.
In Central America any native will
warn you against drinking whisky
immediately after eating bananas,
| Violent collie and internal cramp is
common result Of such proceed
ing. The mischief is worse when the
ordinary fiery spirit Of the country
distilled from maize and known as
sguadiente, is the liquor swallowed.
People who are fond Of salads
should never eat hearty meal at the
same time. The vinegar in a salad
delays digestion. Even SO little as
one part Of vinegar in thousand in
creases the length OF time required
for the digestion of an artificial d.
gestive mixture from four to 80 min
utes. When the proportion Of yine-
gar rises to one in 500 digestion en-
tirely ceases for a time.
Vinegar with sG}t appears to be
specially HARMFUL An inquest was
held some little time ago at Lough-
ton, in Staffordshire, England, upon
. girl OF Is who had died from drink
! ing 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 caused the death
OF President Franklin Pierce Of the
United States.
Meat teas have ruined thousands
of digestions. Tea always exercises
q 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 eight
per cent. of tannin. and this sub
stance It gives up to boiling water
almost instantaneously. Tannin
turns meat into substance some
what resembling leather, and renders
1t extremely difficult for the digestive
organs TO deal with
That we1l-known English authority,
Sir William Roberts, NJ d., says that
the best way to minimize the inhib-
itory action of tea upon digestion is
10 make the brew very weak and
drink IL, not during meal. but after
eating.
He also declares that small guam
tity OF bicarbonate of soda added to
tea completely removes its deterrent
effect upon digestion. SO little as
one part in so, or ten grains of soda
TO an ounce of tea is sufficient for
this purpose.
There Is a popular idea that cheese
''digests everything but itself"
Never was a more foolish error per-
petuated by popular proverb. Al
though cheese contains a great deal
of nourishment. no one who is not
blessed with very powerful diges-
tion should ever eat it.
The feeling of comfort which peo-
pie Of strong digestion experience
after partaking of cheese is caused
by the increased flow of digestive
fluid provoked by the internal organs
TO deal with an almost entirely in
digestible substance.
The greatest mistake of all is to
eat cheese after meat. particularly
after salt meat Meat gives the .di-
gestion quite sufficient to do without
burdening il. Another most unwise
mixture is that Of cheese with raw
onions.
The oyster is almost the only AMI
NAL substance which we make prac-
tiee of eating raw. There is a very
sound reason for doing So The
greater part of the oyster is SIM
ply mass of glycogen, or animal
starch, mingled with substance
which digests il. The oyster is self
digested.