Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-07-04
DOCTORS DECLARE SWEETS
BUILD UP MUSCLES.
THEY ALSO AID DIGESTION
Candy Won't Hurt Teeth-That Is, it
They Are Carefully Brushed After
ward and Kept cIean-How to
Keep Healthy and Enjoy the
Sweets of Life.


gar should not be given to children
is all wrong" said DR.. A. L. Robin
son, of New York, when asked his
opinion of the Lonuon physician who
nave advocated that a quarter of a
pound OF candy be given daily to each
Soluler OF the british army
says the New York World. Sugar
is good article of food; whether
there is any food that is more
strengthening, ] have my doubts.
Every child in New York should be
given reasonable quantity OF sugar
The purest candies are all right, but
loaf sugar is, perhaps, better. La
Africa and in the West Indies the
negroes eat sugar cane, chewing it up
and sucking the juice, and there is
not healthier lot of people.
Il would not advocate a large
quantity OF candy for children and it
should never be eaten on an enptv
stomach. Perhaps it would be better
70 eat it after meals always-then
one would not eat so much. AS to
tne harmful influences of sugar on
on the teeth, / am of the opinion
mat II one keeps the teeth reasonably
ciean, wlat sugar he eats will not
hurt him. Maybe quarter of a pound
Oh candy to each soldier in the British
army would be too much daily. but
certainly it would make them strong.
er. Sugar is given to our own soldiers
IN the Philippines as a regular part
OF their food. 1t makes heat in the
body, and keeps it healthy Ono
should always brush the teeth before
going to bed and they will not suffer.
A healthy body does much to keen
the teeth healthy.
1 always give my children loaf
sugar after each meal" said DIR. n
z. Freunthal of LAG West 72d street
sugar is necessity to the human
body. Loaf sugar is probably the
purest form OF candy and children
ought TO have it. 1t builds muscles
After eating hearty meal children
can take considerable CANDY withour
narm. They are very apt not to chew
tneir food thoroughly and it goes In
to the stomach without being well
mixed with the juices of the mouth
sugar makes these juices flow. ana
wnen they enter the stomach they
AID In digestion, forming certain alco-
nois that aid in the assimilation OF
foodstuffs.
When we take starch into the
stomach it has to be made into sugar
peiore 1t enters the blood, but here
We nave the sugar all made. The
only harm that sugar can do the
teeth is getting between them and
iermenting. But if the sugar is
brushed from the teeth it cannon
narm them, and in building muscle
u aus In keeping the whole system
healthy. Candy and sugar are better
Tor healthy, working, active man
tnan for an inactive one: at least
such a man can take more Of If ana
carry it off successfully.
One OF the proofs that sugar Is
oenehcial is that most people crave
Tor 1t. and The body is often the hest
Judge OF what it needs. that is If
the appetite is not an abnormal one
nave given loaf sugar often t., ma.
tients in the hospital when thev de.
sired It, 1t creates heat, aids in the
formation OF gastric juices, helps d.
gestion and makes strength. That is
the reason why after eating a hearty
meal we eat ice cream"
There is no doubx e,,~n- q.
cie-form-ng food in that it is health.
iul' and / would advocate a reason
able quantity for every person daily
do not know that it would he vau
20 eat a quarter of pound. but Ger.
tainly what most persons take IN
! their coffee, tea and cakes does mot
nurt them. Even in the eating Of
candy it is not harmful, providing
good care is taken of the teeth. But
rlgnt there Is the danger. One must
thoroughly brush the teeth and
cleanse them after eating muc,
candy. Sugar fe-rents in the month
and aids in the culture of bacteria
which are harmful to the teeth The
bacteria form a coating over them.
selves. and under cover of this at
tack the teeth.
The attack Is seldom made on the
outside or inside. hut between the
teeth, and here It is that most teeth
decay. Every night the teeth should
be washed in an alkali solution that
VIII destroy the bacteria and its
coating. Most good tooth powders con
tain this. If this rule is adhered to
one can eat candy with beneficial re.
suits, but it should be eaten after
meals, as a dessert. and at such
times one can eat all he wants with
out harm. Eating sugar before meals
destroys the appetite. As for choco-
late, which the London physician
advocates, think that probably II is
good thing, for Of course he means
chocolate candy and not pure choco-