Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-05
Health CrankS and
Food FaddiStS
Have Evolved Some Strange and
Wonderful Theories Concerning
Stomach Treatment.
\ Trial Package of Stuart's Dyspep-
sia Thblcts Sent Free.

] n lElNl INCkNAc OF NNlAFIS DNSpcil-
sia Tablets Sent Free.
Within the last 20 years there has
sprung into existence theories by
the score relative to the kinds of
food that human beings should eat,
and should AVOID. With the tre-
mendous increase in nervous and
stomach diseases which are caused
by the strenuous life of this neu-
rotic, neurasthenic age in which we
live, we are constantly having our
attention called to some food fad
dists new idea" on the subject of
alimentation.
Most prominent among these the
orists is the vegetarian who insists
that meat was never intended for
the human stomach, despite the fact
that his ancestors for 5000 years
or more used il as their principal
article of diet; and the old patri-
archs of Biblical history who lived
to prodigious old ages, were meat
eaters. All of the great nations of
history have been users of meat, and
all of the most powerful and ad-
vanced countries of today employ 1t
extensively in their dietaries, and
their superior development and
high degree of civilization are in
strong and striking contrast to 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
protied" diet. Now, the foods which
are rich in proteids are the ones
which build up nerve, brain, muscle
and blood, so that any great reduc-
tion in the amount of proteid used
simply means semi-starvation for
the most important centers of the
system-the ones on which we de-
pend the most to enable us to sue
cessfully fight the battles of life.
Those nations whose people use
foods containing but little proteid
are never of large frame or we'll
built The Japanese, who have,
always been small of stature, have
since adopting more liberal pro-
teid diet, shown a remarkable in
crease in size, vigor and general de-
velopment; and il is only since Jap
an became meat-eating nation
that it has developed into n world
power.
Sun another theory lately ad-
vanced is that sugar. pepper and
salt are gastric irritants and irri-
tate the mucous membrane of the
stomach, although it is known that
sugar possesses high caloric value,
while pepper and salt assist digeS-
tion rather than interfere with it,
as is claimed.
The no-breakfast plan. the two
meal per day, and even the one meal
daily has been advocated, while
some advise n two or three weeks
fast, during which all food is with
held from the stomach Ito give il a
rest" completely ignoring the fact
that the systems tissues are being
constantly torn down and cast on
and new material 10 rebuild them
must he supplied from the food
Il is utter nonsense 10 concern
ones self about all these absurd ana
Illogical theories, as life is entirely
too short and there are other things
requiring our attention, Eat what
you want when you want il, and aS
much as the system needs to replen-
iSh its waste. and then take one or
two OF Suart's Dyspepsia Tablets
and forget an about food fadS ana
stomach troubles They digest M
kinds OF food SO thoroughly you
won't know you have q stomach.
They are powerful diSeStors Of.
every Kind OF food though harmless
10 the system, and may be taken 81
any time and I'm any quantity
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