Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-01-03
Health CrankS and
Food FaddiStS
Have Evolved Some Strange and
Wonderful Theories Concerning
Stomach Treatment.
A Trial Package of StuaTt's Dyspep-
sia Tablets Sent Free.

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
dist's 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 it 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 it
extensively in their dietaries, and
their superior development and
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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
systematic 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 a more liberal pro-
teid diet, shown a remarkable in
crease in size vigors and general de-
velopment; and it is only since Jap
an became a meat-eating nation
that it has developed into a world
power.
Still 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-
ton rather than interfere with il,
as is claimed.
The no-breakfast plan. the two
meal per day, and even the one meal
daily has been advocated while
some advise two or three weeks
fast during which all food is with
held from the stomach "to give II ii
rest" completely ignoring the fact
that the systems tissues are being
constantly torn down and cast off +.
and new material to rebuild them
must be supplied from the food.
II is utter nonsense to concern
ones self about all these absurd and
illogical theories, as life is entirely
too short and there are other things
requiring our attention. Eat what
you want when you want II, and as
much as the system needs TO replen-
ish its waste, and then take one or
two OF Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
and forget all about food fads and
stomach troubles. They digest al
kinds of food so thoroughly you
won't know you have a stomach.
They are powerful digestors Of
every kind OF food though harmless
TO the system, and may be taken IT
any time and In any quantity.
Get a box from your druggist for
soc and send us your name and
address for free sample. Address,
f. A. Stuart Co., $50 Stuart Bldg.
Marshall. Michigan.