The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-02
Health Cranks and
Food Faddists
Have Evolved Some Strange and Won
dcrful Theories Concerning
stomach Treatment.
A Trial Package Of stunrt's Dyspepsia
Tablets Sent Free.

IanIcfS sent ircS.
snrnnr e. into existence theories by the
score relative to the kinds Of foo9t
should avoid. With the tremendous
increase In nervous and stomach dis
eases which arc caused by the strenu-
Gus life of this neurotic. neurasthenicl
age in which we live. we are con-
stantly having our attention called toI
some food faddist's new idea" on theI
subject of alimentatIon.
Most prominent among these theo-
rists is -the vegetarian. who insists
that meat was never intended for theI
human stomach. despite the fact that
his ancestors for 5000 years or more
used it as their principal article OF
diet; and the old patriarchs of biblical
history, who lived to prodigious old
ages, We're meat eaters. Nj of .ne
great nations of history have been
users of meat. and all of the. most
powerful and advanced countries of
to-day employ it extensively In their
dietaries, and their superior develop
ment and high degree OF civilization
are in strong and striking contrast 10
the decadent and degenerate nations
OF Asia and the tropics. whose inhabi-
tants are vegetarians:
Another fallacy which has lately
become a fad Is the so-called low
arc rich in proteids are the ones which
build up nerve. brain, muscle and
blood, so that any great reduction M
the amount of protcid used slnlpl%I
means semi starvation Tor inc most
Important centres of the systcm--the
ones on which we depend the most TO.
enable us to successfully fight the bat
ties OF life. Those nations whose peo-
ple use foods containing but little pro,
ted are never of large frame or we'll
built. The Japanese. who have always
been small of stature have, since
adopting a more liberal proteid diet,
shown a remarkable increase in size.
vigor aud general development; and
it is only since Japan became a meat
eating nation that " has developed
into Il world power
Still another theory lately advanced
is that sugar. pepper and SAT- arc
gastric irritants and irritnte the mus
cous membrane of the stomach, Al
though IL is known that sugar pos
sesses y high calorc yalue, while pep
per aud silt assist digestion rather
than interfere With 1t, as is Claimed
The no-brealSfast plan. the tWo-meal
per day and oven the one meal da!iN
has been advocated, while some advise
two or three weeks fast, dufi,lS
stomach TO give il q rest completely
ignoring the fact that the SYSTEMS
tissues are being constantly torn upWli
and cast off, and new maternal 70 re-
build them must be supplied from the
food.
IL is utter nonsense to concern ones
SOLE about all these absurd and illogsr
cal theories. as life Is entirely too
shorl. and there are other things re-
During our attention. Eat what you
Want When you want it. and MS much
as the system needs to replenish It's
waste. aud then take one or two OF
.Stuart,s dyspepsia Tablets, ana forget
| an about food fads and stomach trou-
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thoroughly you won't know You have
a stomach. They are powerful diges-
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| larasfess to the system, and may be
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