The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-05-26
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ter. TAKE nalf lemon WIN pint "
a quart of hot water on rising, and a
few apples and tablespoonful of
olive, or peanut oil morning and eve
ming. Avoid sudden changes Of tenn
perature and exposure to drafts and
cold dampness. Take temperate Turk
ish towel bath every morning. Exer-
else regularly in open air. Drink dis
titled water freely. Use the electric
vibrator.
w. B. F., Hurried Eating.-We have
a boy IL years old Of nervous tempera-
ment, four pounds under normal
weight; be is very excitable and has
trouble In school on this account. He
eats fast and prefers mush and other |
foods that he can eat hurriedly. Wha' |
is the best way to prevent the firm es'
tablishment of this condition.
Ans.-To improve his general health
first investigate judiciously, to assure
yourself that you have knowledge OF
all the causes Of the boys failure to de-
velop properly. Children should have
as large percentage of food as pos
sible in dry form. Furnish no liquid
at meal time and especially no tea or
| coffee. In this case, let the staple OF
the breakfast be, instead of mus!l,
toast, with a little syrup or honey or
one of the cereal preparations, which
compels normal chewing, with a
poached or whipped egg. For dinner
whole wheat bread, not fresh, with
baked potatoes or Saratoga chips and
for supper prunes boiled only little
or baked potatoes or corn bread; full
meal of uncooked vegetables only or
fresh fruit only, occasionally. For the
following meal give corn bread with
peanut butter, making up the shortage
in proteid and fat. Give spoonful OF
peanut or olive oil morning and eve
ming, and preferably not more than
two articles of food at once.
Children should not be allowed to
acquire the improper habit of eating
rapidly. We are nervous people and
therefore, dyspeptic, largely as re-
suit of eating too much, because we
eat too fast; AMI we eat too much anu
too fast because We are nervous. FOOD
and thought are reciprocal.
Mrs. M. S., AppIes.-You advise ap
pies in the morning, but single apple
causes me great distress, bloating and
headache, some times for two or three
hours after eating. Should l eat ap-
pies when they cause me so much
distress?
Ans.-You can no doubt remember
, when, as child, say about ten years
old, you could eat several apples with
out any unpleasant effects. If you
were to eat nothing for four or five
days Cor until your liver returned to
normal condition) you could eat apples
as we'll as ever.
The apple contains malic acid, be
sides fruit sugar, and small percent
ages of nearly all the elements OF
nutrition. The distress is due to an
abnormal condition of the stomach and
liver, upon which the apple acts d.
rectly. No drug is more specific. Now
in the child and normal person the
liver and stomach are acting naturally
and apples cause no distress. II you
+ were to eat an apple the first da,
after having eaten nothing, or on the
Z second day of fast the distress would
be extreme The liver during the fas
( is making an effort to regain it's nor
+ NAL state, by using for house cleanin,
+ the vitality ordinarily spent in diges
: ton, the cells in that organ not bein'
over busy with their usual work of de
r. stroying the poisons which would 9th
v erwise destroy the entire organism
ri &c oil
S such as carbolic, a disinfectant o
s poison killer, germicide, and a
g more work is going on in the hOus
,. cleaning operation in the liver, tn
If apple causes an extraordinary throw
If ing off Of gas, causing this pressure Il
d the stomach and as the abnormal az
k tivities of the liver when burde te
1. with poisonous waste from the al
e mentary canal are reflected throug
l. the sympathetic nervous system. owe
e the eyebrows, you have this familia
headache, but after four or five day
n eating nothing, or only other fruit, sa
~ grapes, which would be very good i
this case, the effects of the apple
- would be much less oppressive and i
% time you would not notice it at all, a
in the case of child whose liver
u not yet somewhat debilitated as your
- must be.
" 1t seems plain that the effect of tn
y. apple is in the direction of the purif,
! ing process carried on by nature. Fru
" acids are the natural blood purifier
NJ especially desirable in spring, bl
~. beneficial at all seasons. In the NOR
Ia ing nature is most active, and
If throwing off poisons. just as she is
"a childhood, causing many children
"a diseases which are means of elimina
"a Ing hereditary effects Of wrong fee